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:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Cream together shortening, sugar, and brown sugar. Mix in egg, then buttermilk and vanilla. Combine the dry ingredients; stir into creamed mixture. Chill dough for 1 hour.
Everyone knows Davy always wore a raccoon hat, so his mommy made him raccoon tails when he came home!
These are easy and exactly like store-bought Mrs. Fields cookies.
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.
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.)
Thanks for all the help everyone ... the recipe Crystal has listed sounds like it might be it ... will try it and see .. I have made so many different ones and although they are good, they are not quite what I am wanting ...
Rolled out sugar cookies
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups shortening (part butter)(I use 1/2 cup
margarine 3/4 cup shortening)
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp soda
5 cups flowur
3/4 cup sour milk ( i use just plain milk)
1 tsp vanilla
Directions:
Cream together the shortening, sugar and eggs. add
milk, salt, baking powder, soda and flour. Roll out
dough and cut with cookie cutters. They may be
frosted.
bake at 400 to 425 degrees for 10 minutes .
Am wondering if part of your grandmother's recipe was the modification of the baking heat.
I know that baking at a lower temp, then leaving the door closed to retain the heat for an hour, will produce different results than baking at the required temp and removing from the cookie sheet immediately.
I think the recipe you've been given that uses the sour cream will be tender. Tenderness can be from the amount of shortening, cook time, or even leavening ( like baking powder), IMHO..
With just three simple ingredients, you can make "shortcut" cinnamon sugar cookies. A fast and easy way to make some cookies, makes a nice little treat for the kids (adults too!).
Cream together first 6 ingredients. Mix rest of ingredients and form into balls 2 inches in diameter. Roll in sugar and flatten on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in 350 degree F oven for 10 minutes.
These cookies are very easy to make and tasty, too. Very nice and soft.
Combine first 3 ingredients; set aside. Cream margarine in a medium bowl; slowly add sugar, beating until fluffy. Add egg, beating. Stir in vanilla. Add flour mixture, stirring until blended.
Sift together in a bowl the flour, soda, cream of tartar, salt and powdered sugar. Cut in butter with pastry blender. Beat vanilla and egg together; add. Dough will be fairly soft...
Make into small balls. Flatten with glass. Apply granulated or colored sugar with bottom of glass at the same time. Bake at 375 degrees F for 8 to 10 minutes on ungreased cookie sheet...
