2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup sour milk
3 eggs
1 cup shortening
6 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
dash of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix together sugar, shortening eggs, sour milk. Add the rest of the ingredients a little at a time. Turn out on lightly floured board. Kneed until it loses its stickiness. Roll out and cut with with cutter.

Bake 350°F for 8 minutes. Ice with fondant.