Janets Soft Sugar Cookies Recipes

GRANDMA'S SOFT SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat together eggs, oil, vanilla and sugar; add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
• Drop by heaping teaspoon approx 3" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Flatten with bottom of glass moistened with water and dipped in sugar.
• Bake at 400°F for 6-10 minutes or just until lightly golden.

SUPER SOFT SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together sugar and butter.
• Add the beaten eggs and vanilla.
• sift together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and nutmeg.
• Add to the first four ingredients.
• Let the dough chill for 2 hours.
• preheat oven to 425.
• roll out dough on lightly floured surface and cut the cookies about 1/2 inch thick.
• Try not to add too much flour to them it will ruin the texture of the cookies.
• Bake for 8 minutes.
• Let cool, then frost with any frosting you would like.

BIG SOFT SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease large cookie sheets.
• In medium bowl, mix first 4 ingredients until well combined; set aside.
• In large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, cream butter and 1 cup of the granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in sour cream, eggs and vanilla.
• Beat in half the flour mixture until just combined. Stir in remaining flour mixture with a spoon (dough will be very soft). Spoon dough by heaping tablespoons on prepared baking sheets about 3 inches apart, making about 24 cookies.
• Butter the base of a flat bottomed glass that about 3 inches wide. Dip bottom of glass into the remaining 1/4 cup granulated sugar. Use sugared glass to flatten cookies into 3 inch rounds, coating bottom of glass with sugar each time.
• Sprinkle cookies with some coarse sugar.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until tops spring back when lightly pressed. (Cookies will be very light in color).
• Immediately remove to racks to cool.

KATHY'S FROSTED SOFT SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix the vinegar and milk to make sour milk.
• Add vanilla to the sour milk; set aside.
• In large mixing bowl, cream together sugar and shortening until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time.
• In separate bowl, blend together baking soda, salt, flour and baking powder.
• Add flour mixture, alternately with sour milk mixture, to the creamed sugar and egg mixture.
• Cover and refrigerate overnight.
• On floured surface, roll out dough to desired thickness, about 1/4 inch.
• Cut out with desired cookie cutter or cutters.
• Bake at 350 degrees for about 5-7 minutes; I like mine soft.
• Let set on cookie sheet for 1 minute before removing to wire rack to cool.
• Frost when cool.
• This recipe should make about 5-6 dozen, depending on the size of the cookie cutter you use.

ANN'S SOFT SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• 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.

SARAH'S MOANABLE SOFT SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix all the wet ingredients together
• Then add the dry ingredients.
• Chill dough for several hours preferably overnight.
• Roll out onto a flour covered surface and cut with cookie cutters. (Keep dough not being used in the fridge as this dough softens quickly.).
• Bake at 350 for 8-10, let cool then frost.
• (We make both large and small cookies and we usually end up around 80-100 cookies).

SOFT SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix flour, baking powder and salt, set aside.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Stir in egg and vanilla.
• Beat in dry ingredients.
• Add milk and mix.
• Chill dough for 30 minutes.
• Roll and cut into desired shapes.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 8-12 minutes.
• Glaze with your favorite glaze or with this frosting:.
• 2 cups powdered sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 tsp vanilla.
• Mix well.
• Add more powdered sugar if frosting is too thin.
• Add food coloring if desired and spread on cookies.
• Very tasty.

JANETS SOFT SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together butter and sugar; add vanilla, eggs and milk. Add baking powder and flour. Roll, cut and bake or roll into balls and smash with the bottom of a sugared glass.
• Bake at 400 degrees for appx 4 min or until the edges just start to turn brown.