Holiday Baking Trilogy, Part 2: Old Favourite
Is the ’sugar cookie’ a victim of poor public relations?
It seems that in the quest for new and exciting Christmas cookies, I sometimes forget the faithful tried and true…
Contrary to its unfortunate name, a well-baked sugar cookie is never too sweet and a perfect companion to a cup of tea.
Light, fluffy, buttery….yum…..
Sugar Cookies
1-1/3 cups butter, softened
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons PLUS 2 teaspoons milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 large eggs
4 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Cream butter, sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl at medium speed until well blended. Beat in egg. Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Mix into creamed mixture. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Heat oven to 350ºF/180ºC. Roll portion of dough to about 1/4 – 1/8” thickness on floured surface. Cut into desired shapes. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Add sprinkles or coloured sugar. Bake 7-9 minutes. Do not overbake.
Variation: Add 2 teaspoons grated lemon or orange peel and 2 teaspoons lemon or orange extract.
I really like a not-too-sweet sugar cookie. They have such good flavor.
21 Dec 2007 at 2:22 am
I just made up the dough for my sugar cookies today. I actually love eating the dough almost better than the baked cookie! I will roll them out, decorate and bake them tomorrow along with a batch of gingerbread cookies that I’m trying for the first time.
Your recipe looks very close to mine – yummy!
21 Dec 2007 at 4:16 am
Hear, hear! I love sugar cookies! They’re good with coffee or chai, too.
21 Dec 2007 at 6:18 am
Around the time that my grandmother passed away, my dad started to send me sugar cookie recipes to try; he wanted me to replicate her cookies, but she never wrote down the recipe, and no one ever stood at her side to see what she was doing. When I finally made a cookie that was close, my dad was SO pleased. I love making those cookies for him every year–they are the yummiest!!
21 Dec 2007 at 3:15 pm
Ohhhhh Myyyyyy!!! Sugar cookies are my favorite of all the many cookie recipes out there. It just seems that whenever there is a memory from childhood family gatherings, sugar cookies were part of that memory. Perhaps because they were inexpensive to make and a batch was “A LOT OF COOKIES” .
22 Dec 2007 at 2:03 pm