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.
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.
Beat the ingredients together until the butter is light, fluffy and clings to the side of the bowl.
You can cook Sugar Cookies using 5 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Sugar Cookies
- Prepare 2 Cups of Self-raising flour.
- Prepare 1 Cup of Sugar (Granulated).
- It's 1/2 Cup of Butter.
- Prepare 1 of Egg.
- It's 1-2 Tsp of Vanilla extract.
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 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.
Sugar Cookies step by step
- Cream your butter and sugar.
- Nice and creamy!.
- Add add in your egg and vanilla.
- Beat those together just until combined.
- Now add in your flour slowly.
- Divide dough into 2 and form a disk then wrap with cling film and chill in refrigerator for 30 mins at least. This dough lasts in the fridge for 3 months!.
- After chilling, Dust your surface with flour and place your dough on top I rolled my dough into a ball first.
- Roll out until thickness desired.
- Cut out your cookie Peices and place on parchment/baking paper.
- Brush off excess flour carefully and place into preheated oven at 140°C fan oven. (Approx. 180°C normal oven.) for around 8-12 mins or until golden.
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. 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. Have a cookie decorating party or gather the kids in the kitchen to bake and decorate Christmas cookies. Perfect Sugar Cookie Recipe is really just that- PERFECT.