My Grandma's Sugar Cookies
"I lost my grandma about 30 years ago when I was just a little thing, but I make these cookies from her recipe every year. These make very soft, thick, cakey cookies. (It took me a long time to realize that this recipe was not the norm, and that many other people make flatter, crisper sugar cookies!) You can frost them as you wish. I make a buttercream icing for mine. If there is any drawback to these at all, it's that the dough gets a little sticky so it really must be chilled well to be rollable. Both the dough and finished (unfrosted) cookies freeze well. Sometimes I use almond extract instead of vanilla. Bear in mind that these puff up quite a bit so simple cookie cutter shapes work best. Prep time includes chill time."
- Ready In:
- 3hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
32
ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons sour cream
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Cream sugar and butter.
- Add eggs, sour cream, and vanilla.
- Sift together baking soda, powder, salt, and flour.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture one cupful at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Refrigerate dough for at least two hours before rolling.
- Roll out the dough on a floured surface, about 1/4" to 1/3" thick.
- Cut with cookie cutters.
- Place cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Baking time will vary with the thickness and size of your cookies, but they should be baked until they are set, and they usually aren't browned (Mine usually take about 12 minutes, and I cut them on the thick side).
- Cool and frost as desired.
- Number of cookies will vary depending on the size of the cookie cutters used.
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Reviews
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Very good! My husband and kids love them. The dough is easy to work with when chilled. -
I really liked that these were tender but not at all too sweet. If you want them to remain soft make sure to remove them from the oven before any browning occurs. And, get them off the cookie sheet before too much cooling as they have a tendency to stick. -
These are great. I made something similar when I was teen from a betty crocker set of recipes books and they were sour cream drop cookies but they had a sugar/cinnamon mix sprinkled on top. No rolling and cutting necessary
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Vino Girl
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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