Granny's Sugar Cookies

Submitted by Gingerbee

"You can make beautiful cookies with this simple recipe for successful holiday baking or parties. Can't beat home-made sugar cookies! Hope you like them..."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 2 dozen

ingredients

• Cream together

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar

• Blend in

• 1 large egg

• Sift together and add to mixture

• 2 - 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla

directions

1. Divide dough in two parts.
2. Chill 1 to 2 hours for easy handling.
3. Roll dough, one part at a time, (keep 2nd cold till ready to roll) to 1/8-inch thickness and cut with cookie cutters.
4. Transfer to cookie sheet.
5. Preheat oven to 375°F.
6. Bake for 8-10 minutes.
7. Frost if desired.

Reviews

[Erica in France]

Do you know your sugar cookies have traveled all the way to France?! I'm an American who relocated to France a year ago and I love recipezaar because it helps me remember American style cooking! Anyway, we LOVED these sugar cookies! They were delicious! What a yummy recipe!

 

[SaraFish]

Very good! A nice basic rolled sugar cookie recipe that yields a dough that's easy to work with. We added food coloring for our pumpkin cookies, subbed with margarine and added a dash of almond extract for a little more flavor. Thanks for posting! We uploaded a picture of our Halloween cookies too.

 

[makennas_mom]

We called these "Granny Cookies" growing up. My Granny would add nutmeg and walnuts, chocolate chips or raisins. We just drop by spoon instead of rolling them out. Also, have a glass of milk handy for dunking. Yummy memories.

 

[MSR5055]

Emergency cookie recipe, ran out of gingerbread in the middle of houses!! So we used this for the roof!! Rolled it out quite thin and baked for 8 min. Pretty good, I didn't have any flavorings but thought they tasted fine. If making for strictly eating i would add vanilla and almond though.

 

[malic]

YUK!!! Sorry Granny:( These were extremely BLAND and not one kid out of 5 would eat them. They did try and spit them out. Maybe ALOT better if it had MORE alot more sugar or something. They liked the sprinkles I put on them...but thats it.Do more searches before making these and see the differences.