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. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and baking soda; gradually beat into creamed mixture.

This recipe can easily be made into snickerdoodle cookies by rolling the dough in cinnamon-sugar before baking. 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. You can have Sugar Cookies using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sugar Cookies

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

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

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.

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. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a medium sized bowl and set aside. 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.