Sugar cookies. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and baking soda; gradually beat into creamed mixture. I love sugar cookies that are crisp on the outside and very chewy on the inside. Do not try to roll these cookies out, they are meant to be shaped or dropped.

This recipe can easily be made into snickerdoodle cookies by rolling the dough in cinnamon-sugar before baking. This collection of sugar cookie recipes includes the best-of-the-best batches. Beat the ingredients together until the butter is light, fluffy and clings to the side of the bowl. You can have Sugar cookies using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sugar cookies

You need 500 ml of flour + extra flour for rolling.
It's 100 ml of maizena (cornflour).
It's 125 ml of sugar, castor.
You need 2 ml of salt.
Prepare 125 ml of margerine.
It's 2 of eggs.
Prepare 5 ml of vanilla essences.
Prepare As needed of Spray & Cook.

Sugar cookies are a buttery classic that make a delicious anytime treat. Enjoy your sugar cookies plain, or decorate them with icing to make them festive. This recipe is a favorite of Martha's, who likes to add one tablespoon cognac alongside the egg and vanilla, after creaming together the butter and sugar. Her daughter, Esther Davis, shared the recipe with me and she came up with all the exact measurements, since the original cookies were mixed by feel and taste.

Sugar cookies step by step

Sift flour, maizena, castor sugar and salt together in bowl.
Rub margarine in flour mixture with thumbs until it looks like bread crumbs.
Whisk eggs and vanilla in separate bowl until fluffy.
Knead eggs and flour mixture together until it forms a ball..
Wrap dough and rest in frigde for 30 minutes..
Preheat oven to 180°C. Spray & Cook baking pans.
Lighty dust surface with flour. Take quarter of dough and roll out between 3-5mm thick.
Press desired shapes with cookie cutter and place it on baking pan.
With left over dough after cutting, add some new dough and roll out again. Continue this process until dough is finished.
Bake cookies for 15 minutes.
Cool cookies on drying rack.
Eat them as they are or decorate with royal icing.

These are my favorite cookies and I hope they'll become yours as well. —Helen Wallis, Vancouver, Washington Our roll-out cookie dough recipe is great for making cut-out cookies of all shapes and sizes. These cut-out sugar cookies will hold their shape and can easily be customized with colorful sprinkles or royal icing. Have a cookie decorating party or gather the kids in the kitchen to bake and decorate Christmas cookies. We love sugar cookies - and we love when yummy recipes only require a few ingredients. Put those two together and we ESPECIALLY love yummy cookies that take just a few pantry staples, and today's recipe is just that.