Sugar Cookies for Charishma
"These are basic cut-out cookies posted in responce to a request. Convection oven temp is included as well as conventional. I did not include the 3 hour chill time in the cook/prep times below, you may not need it if the dough isn't sticky and rolls out easily. The cook time is 7 minutes per batch."
photo by Nurse Morgan
- Ready In:
- 52mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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36-48 cookies
ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄3 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄3 cup shortening
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon milk or 1 tablespoon orange juice
directions
- Cream butter and shortening together, add sugar, baking powder and a dash of salt.
- Beat until combined, scraping bowl.
- Add egg and vanilla.
- Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer.
- Stir in remaining flour.
- Cover and chill for 3 hours or until easy to handle.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll half of the dough at a time to 1/8" thick.
- Cut into shapes with a cookie cutter.
- Place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- in a conventional oven bake at 375F 7-8 minutes or until edges are firm and bottoms are slightly browned.
- Cool on a wire rack, or on waxed paper on the countertop.
- Frost with icing when cooled.
- For a convection oven, I have seen that you would bake them on 325F for 7-8 minutes.
- If you take them out and let them sit on the pan for a minute, they will continue to cook.
- I usually take mine out a bit early, when they look like they aren't quite done yet.
- This lets them stay soft and chewy.
- Another tip is to drop the pan flat onto the counter after removing from the oven, this helps to spread them out so they aren't so puffed up.
- For the icing, just mix the 3 ingredients together until it is a good spreading consistency, adding extra milk 1 teaspoon at a time.
- Add a drop of food coloring.
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Reviews
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I don't think the icing recipe should be listed the way it was. I thought when I was supposed to add the sugar that I added all the sugar. It seemed weird but then I read through and where it said icing, it didn't mean to buy icing, it meant the ingredients listed below were for the icing. whoopsies! -
This dough was horrible to work with! It was really dry and crumbly! -
This is a fabulous sugar cookie recipe....I have to hide them in order to get them decorated -
It was just what I needed. I also used all butter but they didn't get soft they stayed perfect. I thought they were nice even without frosting them. They were easy to shape as well.
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These cookies were sooo good - and easy! They turned out flawless and I didn't refrigerate the dough at all, nor did I roll it out with a roller. We simply flattened some dough out on the cookie sheet with our palms and used the rim of a glass to cut them into circles. (I did grease the cookie sheet). I cooked them for 7 minutes exactly at the recommended temp. Also, I used a different recipe for the icing (#64015)
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Miss Erin C.
Minneapolis, Missouri
Mom to 4 boys, city dweller, eater, craft beer enthusiast, original Recipezaar member.
