Sugar cookies. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and baking soda; gradually beat into creamed mixture. 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.
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.
Beat the ingredients together until the butter is light, fluffy and clings to the side of the bowl.
You can cook Sugar cookies using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Sugar cookies
- It's 400 g of all purpose flour.
- You need 250 g of butter.
- Prepare 1-1/2 cup of sugar.
- It's 1 of egg.
- You need 1 of egg yolk.
- Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
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. 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.
Sugar cookies instructions
- In a clean bowl, cream butter and sugar till fluffy and white.
- Add in egg and egg yolk, mix carefully.
- Add in vanilla essence. Scrape side.
- Add in flour and mix till dough is well formed.
- Dust a surface with flour and knead the dough..
- Roll out dough to about 2cm high. Refigrate for atleast 2 hours and then cut to desired shape using cookie cutter..
- Bake at 120°c for about 12mins. Allow to cool then serve with hot coffee.
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. 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. Our roll-out cookie dough recipe is great for making cut-out cookies of all shapes and sizes. These cut-out sugar cookies will hold their shape and can easily be customized with colorful sprinkles or royal icing.