World’s Best Sugar Cookie Recipe From 1978

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This is seriously the best sugar cookie recipe ever.  The recipe was featured in Sunset Magazine, October 1978, and our family has been making these sugar cookies every year since.

I vividly remember she made these sugar cookies with a number 4 cookie cutter for my 4th birthday party. All the kids got to frost and decorate their own, which must have been a tremendous hit because to this day I still remember those #4 cookies.  She got the idea taken from the magazine article, the Pinterest of 1978….