Sugar cookies. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. I love sugar cookies that are crisp on the outside and very chewy on the inside. Do not try to roll these cookies out, they are meant to be shaped or dropped. This recipe can easily be made into snickerdoodle cookies by rolling the dough in cinnamon-sugar before baking.
Sugar cookies are a buttery classic that make a delicious anytime treat.
Enjoy your sugar cookies plain, or decorate them with icing to make them festive.
This recipe is a favorite of Martha's, who likes to add one tablespoon cognac alongside the egg and vanilla, after creaming together the butter and sugar.
You can have Sugar cookies using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Sugar cookies
- Prepare 2 cups of flour.
- You need 1 cup of sugar.
- It's 2 tsp of black soda.
- Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla essence.
- It's 2/3 cup of vegetable oil.
If you love sugar cookies, you'll also love our famous recipe for soft sugar cookies and our sugar cookie bars. Fill the cookie jar with sugar cookies for an old-fashioned favorite that never goes out of style. This collection of sugar cookie recipes includes the best-of-the-best batches. Perfect Sugar Cookie Recipe is really just that- PERFECT.
Sugar cookies step by step
- In a bowl, mix sugar and oil.
- Add black soda and vanilla essence.
- Add flour and kneed.
- Refrigerate for 30 mins.
- Preheat the oven.
- Make shapes of your choice.
- Bake for 20mins.
The cookies keep shape while baking, are soft and chewy, plus there is NO chilling! This Sugar Cookie recipe is PERFECTION! Her daughter, Esther Davis, shared the recipe with me and she came up with all the exact measurements, since the original cookies were mixed by feel and taste. These are my favorite cookies and I hope they'll become yours as well. —Helen Wallis, Vancouver, Washington Instructions. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or nonstick baking mats.