Awesome Sour Cream Sugar Cookies With Homemade Icing Recipes

SOUR CREAM SUGAR COOKIES I

Steps:

• Cream together 1 1/2 cups white sugar, butter or margarine, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and eggs. Add sour cream.
• Mix together 5 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, baking powder and baking soda. Gradually add to the egg-sugar mixture.
• Cover and chill dough for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Roll out on lightly floured surface to 1/4 inch thick. Cut out cookies. Bake on lightly greased cookie sheet for 10 - 12 minutes.
• To Make Frosting: In small bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat together the softened cream cheese and evaporated milk until smooth. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/8 teaspoon salt and confectioners' sugar. Beat until well blended. Color as desired and frost cooled cookies.

SOUR CREAM SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat white sugar and 1 cup butter together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until creamy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat sour cream and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract into butter mixture.
• Stir flour, baking powder, and baking soda together in a bowl. Add flour mixture to sour cream mixture and stir well. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 2 baking sheets.
• Roll cookie dough out on a floured surface to 1/4-inch thick. Cut into 3-inch round cookies and place onto prepared baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookies spring back when lightly touched in the center, 10 to 12 minutes; transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
• Beat 1/3 cup butter, confectioners' sugar, milk, 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, and salt together in a bowl until smooth. Spread frosting over cooled cookies.

ICING FOR SOUR CREAM COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix butter, powdered sugar and vanilla together. Add teaspoons of hot water until you reach your desired consistency for spreadable icing.
• Spread icing over the Sour Cream Cookies.

AWESOME SOUR CREAM SUGAR COOKIES WITH HOMEMADE ICING

Steps:

• Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt in bowl and set aside.
• Cream butter sugar, egg and vanilla. Beat 2 minutes.
• Add sour cream and beat well.
• Add dry ingredient mix (flour, baking soda, and salt) and blend well.
• Roll on floured board to desired thickness. (1/4 inch thick will create thick cookies that will stay moist for up to two weeks).
• Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters.
• Bake on greased cookie sheet at 325°F for 12 minutes.
• Allow cookies to cool completely before decorating.
• Pour bag of confectioner sugar into bowl.
• Whisk the 1 stick butter (melted), 1 tbsp almond extract, and 1/2 can evaporated milk in separate bowl until well mixed.
• Slowly blend into the powered sugar a bit at a time until the icing is a good consistency for decorating. Will not take the entire mixture.
• Pour icing into smaller bowls and use food coloring to make icing into different colors.
• Decorate with icing as desired.
• Use remaining butter, almond, evap.milk mixture to freshen up the icing as it hardens over time. Re-heat the mixture in the microwave before adding to the icing. Add to the icing a few drops at a time until the icing becomes spreadable again. You may have to add more food coloring to freshen up the color.
• Use sprinkles, candy, and a lot of imagination to decorate cookies.
• Lay decorated cookies on wax paper to dry, it will take icing about 2 hours to firm onto cookie but once dry you can store them in an airtight container.

SOUR CREAM SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• In large mixing bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the egg, sour cream and vanilla.
• Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
• Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness.
• Cut with a floured 3-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter or the cutter of your choice.
• Place 1 inch apart on baking sheets lightly coated with cooking spray.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until set.
• Cool for 1 minute before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
• For frosting, in large mixing bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy.
• Beat in confectioners' sugar and vanilla.
• Add enough milk to achieve desired consistency.
• Tint with food coloring.
• Decorate cookies as desired.

BETTY'S SOUR CREAM SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix shortening, butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla thoroughly in a large bowl Blend the flour, baking powder, soda, salt and nutmeg all together in another bowl.
• Add flour mixture to sugar mixture alternating with sour cream. It will be somewhat stiff at end.
• Divide dough and roll out 1/4 inch thick on well floured surface.
• Cut with 2" cutter and place on greased cookie sheets.
• Sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake at 425°F for 8-10 minutes, or till lightly browned.Depending on the size of the cookie you may need to adjust the baking time. Also be sure and clean off the excess sugar after each batch or will burn onto sheet,and burn bottom of cookies with high heat baking.