Grandma's Soft Sugar Cookies

"Not sweet. Great with coffee or tea. More like biscuits and not chewy-CRUNCHY!"
 
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Ready In:
15mins
Ingredients:
7
Yields:
24 cookies
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ingredients

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directions

  • Beat together eggs, oil, vanilla and sugar; add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
  • Drop by heaping teaspoon approx 3" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
  • Flatten with bottom of glass moistened with water and dipped in sugar.
  • Bake at 400°F for 6-10 minutes or just until lightly golden.

Questions & Replies

  1. could i have the icing recipe with what you topped the cookies? it looks delicious.
     
  2. I love this recipe. Easy pantry staples, no hard work, no rolling out the dough etc. I made icing and they are deeeliiiciooous. Without the icing they are buttery and slightly sweet. Recommend this 10/10
     
  3. hi
     
  4. Is it ok if I press the cookies without the sugar? Im making these for my mother and she doesn't like things too sweet.
     
  5. Is the calories for the serving size for all 24 cookies, or 1 cookie? 120 in one or 120 for all about 24. Meaning 1 cookie would be about 5 wich seems very little for a cookie, but 120 seems like a lot.
     
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Reviews

  1. This was the easiest sugar cookie recipe I've ever made. My family loved them, and some friends raved about how soft they were and asked for the recipe.
     
  2. These are great! I changed the sugar amount to 1 cup and the vanilla amount to 1 TB. They came out perfect. I'll be making these a lot.
     
  3. These cookies were great! We substituted softened butter for the oil, but the cookies were still unquestionably delicious!
     
  4. These turned out very nice.!!! I added i cup of sugar and more vanilla like Johanna2 suggested. I rolled them into balls and pressed them down for a more finished look. I also added aprox. 1/2 tsp of peppermint extract and green food coloring (to wet mixture) and sprinkles, and whala! Christmas cookies!!! Very festive looking.
     
  5. I started to freak out reading all the comments, because people were modifying so much, and random comments said the baking powder taste was horrible, and some said the cookies were oily! In the end I gave up and decided to make it just like the recipe said. I did mix in a little cinnamon with the sugar that I used to flatten out the cookies. And they were GREAT! I have no idea what every is talking about, but they tasted good right out of the oven, and a day later. ...I would tell you if they were good two days after I made them but none of them lasted that long.
     
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Tweaks

  1. I followed a lot of the commenters suggestions and used 1 cup of sugar instead of 3/4, instead of flattening I just sprinkled a little sugar on them and they baked up perfect.
     
  2. Also they look prettier if you use a fork to press them down, instead of the glass :)
     
    • Review photo by Mercedes C.
  3. I did 1 cup of sugar and a tablespoon of vanilla.
     
  4. I used soy bean oil, lemon extract, brown sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup of flour and lemon juice. It was delicious!!
     
  5. Lower temp to 350 cooked for 8min and added sugar
     

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