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 cook Sugar cookies using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Sugar cookies
- Prepare 2 of large eggs.
- Prepare 2/3 cups of vegetable oil.
- It's 2 of tsps vanilla.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of white sugar.
- You need 2 cups of flour.
- It's 2 of tsps baking powder.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
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Sugar cookies instructions
- Beat together eggs, oil, vanilla and sugar; add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well..
- Drop by heaping teaspoon approx 3" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten with bottom of glass moistened with water and dipped in sugar..
- Bake at 400°F for 6-10 minutes or just until lightly golden..
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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.