How to Cook Yummy Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting

Various Delicious Food recipes..

Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting. These really are Grandma's Best Sugar Cookies! They're perfectly soft, a little bit chewy, with the right amount of tang from the sour cream. This Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe is a copycat recipe of the grandma's big, frosted cookies sold in grocery stores. The cream cheese frosting and freshness of the cookies make them even better! Be prepared for a storm of powdered sugar to fly everywhere, unless you're really patient and only do like a tablespoon at a time.

Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting When all the powdered sugar is combined, the frosting will be really thick and almost crumbly. Note: This will give you enough to frost a batch of cookies, but I always double the recipe so I have LOTS of frosting to play with. A classic no-fail recipe, delicious when topped with cream cheese frosting. You can have Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting

  1. It's of Cookies.
  2. Prepare 1/2 cup of Real Butter.
  3. It's 1 cup of Crisco.
  4. It's 2 cups of Granulated Sugar.
  5. You need 2 tsp of Almond Flavoring.
  6. It's 4 of Eggs.
  7. Prepare 5 cups of Flour.
  8. It's 2 tsp of Baking Powder.
  9. Prepare 2 tsp of Salt.
  10. Prepare of Frosting.
  11. Prepare 1/2 cup of Real Butter.
  12. Prepare 4 cups of Powdered Sugar.
  13. It's 1 tsp of Almond Flavoring.
  14. You need 1/2 tsp of Kosher Salt.
  15. Prepare of Whipping Cream to consistency.
  16. Prepare of Food Coloring.

Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. In a large bowl, blend together butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla with a hand mixer until light and fluffy. Place powdered sugar, meringue powder and water in a large bowl. Icing is ready to use but it will be very thick.

Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting step by step

  1. Cream together butter, crisco, granulated sugar, almond flavoring until light and fluffy (at least 4 minutes)..
  2. Add eggs, one at a time until blended..
  3. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Resift 2 more times..
  4. Add dry ingredients to cookie batter and blend well..
  5. Chill for 15-20 minutes..
  6. Roll out to 1/4" thickness on lightly floured surface..
  7. Bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes..
  8. Frosting: Cream butter, salt and flavoring until light and fluffy. Add powdered sugar. Add whipping cream a little at a time until proper consistency. Frost and decorate as desired..

Divide the icing into two bowls. You will need a thinner consistency to frost the cookies and a medium consistency to do the decorations. Add a few tablespoons of water to one bowl. These Sour Cream Cookies are not the difficult, finnicky cookies that require hours of rolling, cutting, baking, and decorating. They are a soft sugar cookie made with sour cream, and they have a fluffy, delicate texture that I find much more appealing.