This is a recipe that I got from my mother over 40 years ago. She called them drop sugar cookies, so I renamed them this year. These are crispy cookies that melt in your mouth. Almost every time I take them to a potluck party, I am asked for the recipe.
Prep Time: about 30 minutes
Cook Time: 6-10 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours
Yield: 5 or 6 dozen
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I am looking for a sugar cookie recipe, not just any sugar cookie. When I was a teen (many,many years ago), my mother bought large decorated sugar cookies from a local woman. They were Santa heads about 1/2 inch thick, moist not crispy and had a really really good flavor. I have tried several recipes, but haven't found one that tastes like these. Anyone have a recipe that makes a delicious, tender cookie?
Try the following recipe. Be sure to roll them thick and underbake them a little for soft, moist cookies.
"Killer" Sugar Cookies
3 3/4 cups flour
Cream butter and suger. Add eggs, vanilla and almond and mix well. Mix dry ingredients together and then add to creamed mixture and stir well with wooden spoon. Roll, cut and bake at 350 for 5-9 minutes. Cool and frost/decorate as desired.
Hope this helps!
I have a recipe that I absolutely LOVE!! Sounds like the one you're talking about.
Here it is:
3 eggs
3 c. sugar
1 c. sour cream
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cream of tartar
6 c. flour
350 degrees, bake for 10 min. Roll thicker so they will be moist and not crunchy and dont' keep them in for too much extra time. They may not look done, but they are and if you let them in the oven longer, they will get hard.
Enjoy!
Nona
Try using some almond flavoring. That's most likely what was used in the cookies. Use vanilla, too.
Mary - Iowa
I have what I think you're looking for even though I call it a Tea Cake Cookie:
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup solid Crisco
Self-rising Flour
Mix sugar, eggs, vanilla and Crisco in a bowl. Then, using self-rising flour, make a stiff dough. Roll out fairly thin (about 1/8") and cut. Bake at 350° until brown.
(I make a thumbprint in the center of each cookie and put a dollop of jelly/jam in the center. I don't see why, though, you couldn't sprinkle them with colored sugar, etc. I hope you enjoy these as much as my children did when they were growing up.)
About 25 years ago I had a sugar cookie recipe that was given to me by a worker for the extension service for the county. I don't remember what the recipe called for but I do know you rolled them in balls and used self rising flour. The flavor was like none I have ever tasted. Once you started eating them you could not quit. Guess what? I have lost my old time recipe. Help!
I was wondering if anyone has a quick and easy recipe for Cutout Sugar Cookies for Christmas. I have found a lot of recipes but so many call for like 6 cups of Flour. I don't want to make that big of a batch.
Mindy,
Most recipes can be cut down. I have successfully cut mine in half and even into one fourth the normal with fine results. Just find a recipe you are pleased with and adjust it to the amount of cookies you want to make.
Charlotte
These can be soft OR crisp. The key is to take them out AS SOON AS they start to puff up. about 8 minutes.
3/4 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs and vanilla extract and blend. Add remaining ingredients and blend. Chill at least one hour.
Roll dough onto flour surfaced and cut out into shapes. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 8 - 10 minutes at 350 degrees F.
Also I usually just roll out the dough on an old pillow case sprinkled with powder sugar. Then cut into triangles with a pizza cutter. Rolling them in flour makes them tough. Carol
These are easy and not too sweet, and are best with sugar or icing on top. This is the very best recipe I ever used.
1 c butter or margarine or a combination
1/2 c sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla
3 c flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
Cream butter and sugar.
add egg and vanilla and mix well. Slowly add dry ingredients, but do not overmix, and this will toughen cookies.
Chill for an hour or so, then roll about 1/4 inch thick on a well floured board (*HINT* roll on wax paper...or I use white freezer paper and throw away the mess when finished) and cut with cutters. Bake in a preheated 350f oven until just beginning to brown around the edges, 8-10 minutes. Makes 2-3 dozen cookies.
Cool and frost or sugar.
These are very tender and good.
I have a favorite sugar cutout cookie recipe and it also is a LARGE recipe. Why not 1/2 the recipe that you do have. That works fine I have found.
Soft Sugar cookies
3 cups flour
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup soft butter (no substitutes)
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
Combine flour, cream of tartar, and baking soda. Cut in butter until fine particles form. Beat eggs well; add sugar and vanilla. Stir into flour mixture and chill 1/2 hour.
Bake 375 degrees for 8 minutes.
I am looking for a recipe my mom got off the back of a Domino's Dark Brown Sugar box when I was little. She made these cookies every Christmas. She cut the recipe from a box and before she passed, she gave it to me.
Yes, I lost it and have been trying to find this recipe for 16 years. I think (and stress think) they were called butterscotch drop cookies, but "did not" contain butterscotch. The recipe called for dark brown sugar, eggs, flour, cinnamon, and I think a couple of tablespoons of buttermilk.
Does anyone out there know of this recipe? I have searched hundreds of websites including Domino sugar and even wrote them asking about a recipe archive. No luck. I hope someone can help me and end my years of guilt for losing this recipe and memory. Thanks.
By jamie from NY State
I need a recipe for spiced sugar cookies. Can anyone help? Thanks.
By Holly from Lancaster, WI
Does anyone have an easy, soft sugar cookie recipe?
Nicole
Many years ago someone brought cookies to my son's preschool. The cookies were cut-out cookies. They were "raised" and crisp on the outside, but soft in the middle. They looked similar to animal crackers. I have been searching for years for a recipe but so far no luck. Anyone have a recipe for this type of cookie?
By Teressa
I am looking for a good sugar cookie recipe. I just need to make them into circles to bake them. Then I have small chocolate chips to make eyes and a mouth, put a candy corn on for nose and you have snowman face! My grandkids are coming this weekend and I want to have these all baked so I just have to frost and they can make the snowman faces on them.
By Grammy Duck from upnorth, MN
Butter has become scarce these days. I wish to make cookies, but all I have left is a small piece of butter and some leftover buttercream from my previous cake orders. I don't want to waste the frosting so I decided to make cookies out of it.
