Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

Submitted by JPerez

"Easy, great tasting, soft cookies. Much less work than cut-out cookies!"

 

• Ready In: 13mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄2 cup sour cream
• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• sugar, for coating

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Mix 1 cup sugar, butter, sour cream, vanilla and egg.
3. Stir in remaining ingredients.
4. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls into sugar (can be colored sugar); roll gently until completely coated.
5. Place about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet (or cookie sheet lined with parchment paper).
6. Flatten cookies to about 1/4-inch thickness with the bottom of a drinking glass.
7. Bake 7 to 8 minutes or just until set.

Reviews

[LonghornMama]

Very good! Sour cream and butter make these nice and rich, but still soft and tender. Thanks for the suggestion to roll in colored sugar. We used orange:) Thanks for sharing the recipe! Made for PAC Fall 2008.