10 Easy Sugar Cookie Recipes by Buster Callahan

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10 Easy Sugar Cookie Recipes
by Buster Callahan

After School Sugar Cookies
7 tbsp butter
1/3 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
Cream together butter, shortening, and sugar. Mix in egg and vanilla. Blend well. Mix in flour, baking powder, and salt. Divide dough into two balls. Wrap in plastic wrap. Chill a minimum of one hour. Roll dough out to 1/8 inch thickness on lightly floured surface. Cut into desired shapes. Bake at 375 F. for 6 to 8 minutes on ungreased cookie sheets. Decorate with icing after cookies halved cooled.. Yield: about 4 dozen cookies

Fruity Sugar Cookies

3/4 c. shortening
1 c. sugar
1 (3 oz.) pkg. Jello (any flavor)
2 eggs
3 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt

Roll dough into teaspoon size ball. Place on a cookie sheet and smash with a glass. Bake at 375 degrees for 6 minutes.

Easy Roll Sugar Cookies

1 c. butter
1 c. sugar
2 egg yolks
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
3 c. sifted flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/3 c. milk

Cream butter. Add sugar gradually, mix in egg yolks and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients with milk. Chill 1 hour. Roll 1/8 inch thick on well floured surface. Cut with cookie cutters and place on greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Frost and decorate when cool. Makes about 5 dozen.

Cut Out Sugar Cookies

1 c. margarine
1 c. sugar
3/4 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt

Cream margarine, sugar and eggs. Mix dry ingredients; add to cream mixture. Add flour until dough is firm. Chill dough. Roll on floured board 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick. Cut out cookies. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.

Chocolate Sugar Cookies

1/2 c. marg., softened
3/4 c. sugar
2 egg yolks
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 tbsp. cream
1/4 c. flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/3 c. cocoa

Cream margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy. Stir in egg yolks, vanilla and cream. Sift dry ingredients together and add to cream mixture. Drop by teaspoons full on greased cookie sheets, about 1 inch apart. Bake at 375 degrees for about 8 minutes.

Bake Store Sugar Cookies

1 1/2 c Flour
1/2 c Sugar
1/3 c Shortening
1 tb Milk
1 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Vanilla
1/4 ts Salt
1 Egg

Measure ingrediants into a bowl & mix well. Shape into a ball & wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 3 hours.

Pre-heat oven to 400 F. Roll out 1/2 of the dough (leave the rest tin the fridge for now) to 1/8

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Posted on: February 19,2007

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