Ann's Soft Sugar Cookies
"When I was 18 my friend Ann's parents owned a cafe in our small town (Uniontown, WA). One day she brought over the best sugar cookies I have ever tasted! I had to have the recipe..."
photo by Juju Bee
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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2-3 dozen cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
directions
- Mix together butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, and almond extract in a large bowl.
- In another bowl stir together flour, soda, and cream of tartar.
- Slowly add the dry mixture to the wet ingredients.
- Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Divide dough in half.
- On a lightly floured surface roll each half to 3/16 of an inch.
- Cut out shapes as desired and sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake on cookie sheets for about 8 minutes.
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Reviews
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IMO - these cookies have perfect sugar cookie flavor, not too sweet and not too plain. They are light vs. being dense. I always undercook my cookies, since I always seem to burn them LOL! I baked them for about 6.5 minutes. PERFECT golden brown bottoms :) Thanks for posting this recipe!!! :) -
I made these twice now and they are a hit but not as soft as I would like them to be. -
These are the best sugar cookies EVER!! This is a Betty Crocker recipe from a cookbook printed in the 60's or 70's. It's the book I grew up with. A great frosting for these cookies is from the same book. The recipe follows: 1/3 cup soft butter 3 cups confectioners sugar 1 1/2 tsp vanilla 2-3 Tbsp milk Cream butter and sugar with liquids. It dries thick like a cake frosting, but it goes well with this cookie!! Enjoy -
Turned out great. They did crumble easily, but they were deliciously buttery -
Fantastic! They don't have the funny taste that some sugar cookies and snickerdoodles do.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Some1sGrandma
Eugene, OR
I am the mother of three (one grown, one in middle school and one in high school). I have grandchildren who we invite over regularly to spend the night. We have lots of fun and a very full house!
I do all of the baking and my husband cooks all the dinners. He loves to BBQ and cook and he is GOOD at it! He is wonderful with the children and I appreciate him so!
I enjoy gardening, crafts, sewing, and crocheting, pets, and all kinds of "kid fun".
If I had a month off I would spend it somewhere on the coast with just my sweetie and a view of the sea. I would miss the kids terribly so I would have them visit us in the hotel (that of course has room service) on Thursdays,Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays for swimming, walks, beach-combing, dune climbing and dune buggy rides, movies, church, and the hottub!
