Cut-Out Cookies

A perfectly serviceable recipe for a sugar cookie base for cutout cookies. I found the dough a little too dry; perhaps it's the hazard of winter baking.

And don't tell your 3-year-old it's time to use the cookie-cutters before the dough is made! Unless, of course, you were looking forward to him asking at every step whether it's time. (See also sturlington's review of what I assume is the same recipe but in a Nigella cookbook...)