Soft Sugar Cookies.
You can have Soft Sugar Cookies using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Soft Sugar Cookies
- It's 2/3 Cup of Shortening.
- You need 1 Cup of White Sugar.
- Prepare 2 of Eggs.
- You need 1/3 Cup of Milk.
- It's 1 Teaspoon of Vanilla Extract.
- Prepare 3 Cups of Flour.
- You need 2 Teaspoons of Baking Powder.
- Prepare 1 Teaspoon of Salt.
- Prepare 1 Cup of Sugar Confectioner ' s.
- It's 2 Teaspoons of Milk.
- It's 2 Teaspoons of Corn Syrup Sugar Syrup Lite or Simple.
- It's 1/2 Teaspoon of Vanilla Almond or Extract.
Soft Sugar Cookies step by step
- Cream together shortening and white sugar until fluffy (it's best to use a hand beater or stand mixer). Add eggs, milk, and 1 tsp vanilla and beat until well combined..
- In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to wet mixture a little at a time, forming a soft ball of dough. Refridgerate for an hour to make dough firm..
- Turn dough onto a floured surface and use a rolling pin to roll out to about 1/2 inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes using cookie cutters or the rim of a drinking glass. Collect dough scraps and continue until all dough has been used..
- Bake at 350 F for 10-12 minutes. Do not let cookies become brown, and do not overcook, else they will become hard. Cool cookies completely before decorating..
- For the frosting, place confectioner's sugar, milk, syrup, and almond OR vanilla flavoring into a bowl and mix with a hand mixer or stand mixer until well combined. Frosting should not be runny, but about the thickness of thick oatmeal..
- Add food coloring to create desired colors for frosting, then spread or pipe onto cookies. Frosting should harden in about 90 minutes..