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
Ingredients:
Steps:
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!
Does this sound like it?
1 cup butter, margarine*, or butter-flavor shortening
1 egg
1 teaspoon orange extract, vanilla, or your choice
2 cups white sugar
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Beat all ingredients except self-rising flour with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add self-rising flour and mix well.
Roll dough into balls, coat in sugar, if desired, and flatten on ungreased cookie sheet with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar. Bake for 5 to 8 minutes until done.
Makes about four and half dozen.
* if using margarine, make sure to check the label and use one that has about 100 calories in a tablespoon. The "spreads", tubs, and some sticks have water whipped in, which lowers the calorie count, and is great for eating, but not for baking!
I have a little cookbook I got off of ebay. No sugar cookie recipe but one that tells you to roll the dough in little balls, here you go:
BUTTER BALLS
3/4 cup shortening (part butter or margarine)
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups sifted s/rising flour
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Cream shortening and sugar together. add well-beaten egg and vanilla. add flour. Chill dough until firm. Shape into balls the size of marbles. mix white sugar and nuts. Roll balls in the mixture. Place 2 inches apart on greased cookie sheet and bake in moderately hot oven (400F) for about ten minutes. cookies flatten out during baking. makes about 7 dozen.
I would bet you could just bake them plain for a sugar type cookie or just roll in the white sugar to coat them before baking.
Hope this helps!
go to "google" Type in "sugar cookies self rising flour". You will get a ton of recipes.
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
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
Sift together flour, baking powder, soda and nutmeg in mixing bowl. Cut in butter to make crumbly, like pie crust. Beat eggs; add sugar, milk and vanilla. Add to flour mixture. Mix; roll on floured board; sprinkle with sugar, and bake at 400 degrees F.
