Need a sugar cookie recipe

[sikiguya]

I need a good sugar cookie recipe, one that can be rolled out and cut. I have a good one but it's more of a cake-type cookie and I want a thin cookie.

Going to make some tonight or tomorrow (we are supposed to get 6-10"of snow tomorrow so I probably will be staying home!).

Thanks!

 

[turquoisedude]

Here's my all-time fave!

This is a recipe from the Better Homes and Gardens Holiday cookbook from the late 50s. I make it every Christmas and according to my friends children, "These sugar cookies rock" (no they are not LIKE rocks...LOL).

Sugar Coookies

1 cup butter or margarine (I use half butter, half margarine)
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
(NOTE: if you don't have cream of tartar, use 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and omit the baking soda)

Cream butter or margarine. Add sugar gradually, creaming until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together; add gradually to creamed mixture. Chill the dough thoroughly (3 to 4 hours) in refrigerator.
Roll out chilled dough on a well-floured surface to 1/4 or 1/8 of an inch thick. Cut in shapes desired with cutters. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees until barely browned. Cool slightly on cookie sheet, then remove baked cookies to rack; cool completely.
Makes about 8 dozen cookies.

Have fun baking!! They keep very well in covered tins, too.

 

[dj-gabriele]

Easiest and most delicious recipe ever!

Multiply the doses according to the quantity you want to bake!

100 g of almonds
100 g white sugar
1 egg white

Put the almonds in a food processor and grind them in a coarse powder, mix with the sugar and egg white and put in a tray covered with wax paper doing a homogeneous layer of about 5 mm.

Put in a hot oven at 200°C (180°c if you have forced convection) for 20 minutes or till they're a little brown.

While hot cut in pieces of about 6x4 cm and when the biscuits are at room temperature take them off the tray and... yumm!

PS: usually with a 1 kg of almonds and 1 kg of sugar I do 4 45x32 cm trays.

 

[turquoisedude]

Ok that's it - I have to try making these almond cookies now! Thanks for sharing your recipe, Gabriele!!

 

[toggleswitch2]

Yiayia means grandma

I never beofre bakes a cooie from scratch. My nieces had a blas with this recipe.

Makes about 3 dozen. Easily halved.

Although yiayia Irene (the proagonist [and IRENE BTW means "Peace", just as Sophia means "wisdom"] states 2 TABLESPOONS vanila, the recipe at the end lists 2 TEASPOONS.

Traditional shape is a bobby-pin (hair-pin) with the ends twisted once or twice as a braid. With my nieces I made coils ("TURDS" LOL), "S" shapes and spheres "BALLS", baby.

She also say people use wax paper in the pan; I'm imagining she means to say parchment paper.

 

[toggleswitch2]

oh he** you can't do eggs. OOOPSIE I FORGOT. SORRY

 

[sikiguya]

Thanks!

It's OK on this one Toggle. I can use eggs in these cookies, he just won't eat them. He enjoys making cooking though. I will have to make him something else.

Thanks for remembering though. It's hard to find recipes without eggs. I recently found a great mix at the store for Belgian Waffles that does not make you add eggs (and it tastes good too!).

 

[toggleswitch2]

Hi Heather

Do those fake egg-substitute thingies work, or are the inredients apt to trigger an allergic response as well?

 

[mixfinder]

Same but different

I have the same recipe for sugar cookies as Turquoisedude but my recipe calls for beating the eggs 5 minutes, then adding the sugar and beating 5 minutes, then the butter for 5 minutes and then the dry ingredients and barely mixing to combine. The most important tip is not to over bake. There should be no brown showing and I take them out when the op has just begun to lose it's gloss and turn dull.

 

[sikiguya]

Good advice!

They are just about to go in the oven (they are cutting them out with their new cookie cutters they got for Xmas).

I will watch the first batch closely, especially since we are using convection.

Toggle-egg subs are usually made with egg whites (which he is severely allergic to).

 

[sikiguya]

They turned out great and we are eating them now.

Thank you!!!

 

[appnut]

YAY Heather!! Stay warm!!

 

[polkanut]

Heather,

I have a recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookie Brittle that uses no eggs. My Grandma Wilde clipped this from a Nestle's ad many years ago. Here it is:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine 1 cup butter or margarine, 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 3/4 tsp. salt in a bowl and blend well. Gradually beat in 1 cup sugar. Add 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, and 1 cup semi-sweet choc. chips or butterscotch chips. Mix well. Press evenly into an ungreased 15"x10"pan. Sprinkle 1/2 cup chopped nuts over the top. Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes. Cool, then break into irregular piecesand drain on paper toweling. Makes about 1 3/4lbs.

I add the nuts to the dough, less messy.

 

[mrb627]

Sugar Cookies

I love a good sugar cookie. Simple and tasty.

I also love a good butter cookie. I have fond memories of the BIG butter cookies they used to server in the cafeteria at school growing up. How I would love to have a couple of those right now.

Malcolm

 

[sikiguya]

Yummy!

Again, these were fabulous! I am making the other half of the dough tonight.

The kids had so much fun and used the cookie cutters that they got for Christmas. Plus, they ate TONS of warm cookies that we sprinkled with sugar.

Thanks again!!