Recipe: Tasty Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Powdered sugar, for rolling out dough 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.

We love sugar cookies - and we love when yummy recipes only require a few ingredients. Put those two together and we ESPECIALLY love yummy cookies that take just a few pantry staples, and today's recipe is just that. Delicious, butter-y cookies that call for just butter, sugar and flour. You can cook Sugar Cookies using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sugar Cookies

1. It's 1 1/2 cup of Butter, softened.
2. Prepare 2 cup of Sugar.
3. It's 4 large of Eggs.
4. You need 1 1/2 tsp of Vanilla.
5. It's 5 cup of Flour.
6. You need 2 tsp of Baking powder.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of Salt.

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. Fill the cookie jar with sugar cookies for an old-fashioned favorite that never goes out of style.

Sugar Cookies step by step

1. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight)..
2. Preheat oven to 400°F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets..
3. Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely..

This collection of sugar cookie recipes includes the best-of-the-best batches. These cookies tasted great but my dough was so crumbly that i couldn't even roll them out to cookie cut them,,,, i ended up taking bits and pieces and smashing them into the cutter to keep a good design,,,, but to be fair i have never found a non crumbly non chill sugar cookie recipe,,,, makes me hate making them even tho i love to eat them. 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. Beat the ingredients together until the butter is light, fluffy and clings to the side of the bowl. In a bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.