preheat oven to 350
cream margarine sugar and vanilla.
stir in flour 1 cup at a time.
place in a tablespoon sized ball onto ungreased cookie sheet.
bake about 15 min or until bottoms are golden.
cool on wire rack.
add a sprinkling of powdered sugar to the tops of cookies when cool if u like.
store in airtight container.
VARIATION:
FOR MINT MELTAWAYS... add mint extract instead of vanilla and 30 drops of green dye.. make as normal.
FOR STRAWBERRY MELTAWAYS: use strawberry extract instead of vanilla and add 30 drop red food color.. make as usual.
FOR BANANA: use banana extract and yellow food color..
SEE WHERE I'M GOING HERE?
this makes about 40-50 cookies!
feel free to combine. flavors into one cookie.. split the batch and take a pinch of each flavor and swirl them together in any pattern before baking.
enjoy! :)
