Super Soft Valentine Cookies

1/2 cup soft butter
1/2 cup crisco
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
2 teaspoons soda disolved in 2 Tablespoons water.
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
6 heaping cups flour

Cream butter, crisco and sugar very well in a Bosch mixer, 2-3 minutes.
Add eggs, milk, soda/water, baking powder, salt, vanilla.
Mixture is very wet at this point.
Switch to dough hooks and add 6 heaping cups flour.

Refrigerate dough until firm, at least two hours.

Take half the dough and roll out with extra flour on your cutting surface. Can add extra flour if needed to roll out dough.

Place cut out cookies on cookie sheet. Bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees.

This is a great cookie because it has lots of height and is really so soft. Honestly, I've never had a cookie that beats it.

When mixing, you know your dough is ready when you see it begin to pull away from the sides of the bowl. You can add flour later when you roll them out, so it's okay if dough is a little sticky. It will taste better if it is. But on the other hand, you need to be able to get it out of the bowl and have it be workable. The six heaping cups should work for you.