World's Best Sugar Cookies

Submitted by YungB

"I am so particular about my sugar cookies. Anyway, after trying many different recipes, I have to say I like this one. It was from the Los Angeles Times "My Best Recipe". I have used this recipe for many years now. Please try it out and tell me what you think. These are crispy not the soft kind. The yield is estimated since it depends on how large your cookies are."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 48 cookies

ingredients

• 236.59 ml butter or 236.59 ml margarine
• 236.59 ml powdered sugar
• 236.59 ml granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 236.59 ml oil
• 9.85 ml vanilla
• 4.92 ml baking soda
• 4.92 ml cream of tartar
• 2.46 ml salt
• 1182.95 ml flour

directions

1. Cream butter with 1 cup powdered sugar and 1 cup granulated sugar.
2. Beat in eggs until smooth.
3. Slowly stir in oil, vanilla, baking soda, cream of tartar, salt and flour.
4. Chill for easy handling.
5. Shape into walnut-size balls. Dip in sugar. Place on baking sheet and press down with the bottom of a glass.
6. Bake at 350 degrees 10 to 12 minutes.
7. Make about 4 dozen.

Reviews

[kittycatmom]

Great recipe! It hard to find a really good sugar cookie that isn't too "overwhelmingly" sweet. These are perfect for frosting - if you don't have people waiting for them the minute they are cool enough to pick up! LOL!!! Thanks YungB! I will make these again soon! Made for 2009 Spring PAC Edited to add - the amount of granulated sugar is not listed, so I used equal amounts of powdered sugar and granulated sugar. Which was perfect. :)

 

[derrydown]

My Dad cut this recipe out of a magazine, I made them, and the family will not eat anything other than these! At Christmas, I crushed a cup of starlight mints and added it to the dry ingredients. Well, now they must have crushed peppermints in them. These cookies have a wonderful melt-in-your-mouth consistency but do not break up.

 

[Manal H.]

This recipe was really good, but I did a few things different from the recipe, I used two cups granulated sugar and two teaspoons baking soda, because I didn't have powdered sugar and cream of tarter, I also added two teaspoons of ground anise seeds, that gave it a great licoricey flavor reminded me of the Christmas cookies I used to make when I was younger, but it came out really good.

 

[GrandmaTheresa]

I made this recipe with my granddaughter. I must say that we did not like it. No one in the house liked it. It tasted all like flour and not like a sugar cookie. The went in the garbage they were so bad. What a waste of 5 cups of flour. We aren't that picky but these cookies were just very bad. I am gonna try another recipe with her tonight that has more sugar and less flour.

 

[DAVID T.]

Made them exactly according to the recipe and they are flawless - beautiful with taste to match. They're going to be a big hit with my homemade peppermint ice cream for Christmas tomorrow!! Just made a 1/2 recipe and now I'm wishing I'd made the the whole recipe - so good.