Recipe: Perfect 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.

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 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sugar Cookies

1. Prepare 2/3 cup of shortening.
2. You need 3/4 cup of sugar.
3. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
4. Prepare 1 of egg.
5. Prepare 4 tbsp of milk.
6. Prepare 2 cup of all-purpose flour.
7. It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.

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Sugar Cookies step by step

1. Mix the first 3 things together, well..
2. Mix in egg and milk and beat until light and fluffy..
3. Blend flour, baking powder, and salt together. Mix into shortening and egg mixture. Beat well..
4. Chill dough for about hour. Divide dough. Roll out on floured board. Cut into shapes you want.
5. I use parchment paper lined cookies sheets. Oven preheated 375, bake for 6 to 8 minutes.

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 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. Beat the ingredients together until the butter is light, fluffy and clings to the side of the bowl.