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Sugar Cookies

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As previously mentioned, it is an avid ambition of mine to fully perfect a recipe to call my own. There is no greater achievement than to have someone take a bite and say with utter awe and amazement, "Where did you get these? They're amazing!" followed by the smug satisfaction of proclaiming, "I made them myself," and blush modestly as they further compliment the sugary success. (This is, of course, ignoring the fact that their wonder means they would have had little faith in my skill to begin with. In all honesty, considering my previous non-successes with some self-altered recipes, I wouldn't blame them.) Recently, and entirely by chance, it seems that my destined product of perfection is far from the Perfect Brownie I'd hoped for (there was a last trial unworthy of publishing), but rather, the humble sugar cookie. I'm far from unhappy, however. Sugar cookies are not only more impressive when decorated, and though much more time-consuming, can b