Southern Cream Cookies Recipes

MOM'S SOUTHERN CREAM COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream shortening and 2 cups sugar.
• Add eggs, vanilla, sour cream, lemon juice and lemon extract.
• Mix well.
• In separate bowl, mix flour with baking powder, salt and baking soda.
• Add to creamed mixture.
• Drop from spoon onto greased cookie sheet.
• Grease bottom of small glass, dip into sugar and gently press cookie flat.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.

SOUR CREAM COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two cookie sheets.
• In small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
• In large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat butter until creamy. Gradually add sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
• Beat in sour cream, lemon extract, and vanilla.
• Reduce speed to low; beat in flour mixture just until blended.
• Drop dough by rounded teaspoons, 1 inch apart, on prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake until set and golden around edges, 10-12 minutes.
• Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; with wide spatula, transfer cookie to wire racks to cool completely.

SOUTHERN CREAM COOKIES RECIPE

Steps:

• Mix together to sprinkle on top of cookies: 3 T. sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon. Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla and sour cream. Mix well. Mix dry ingredients together and add with chips, to the shortening/sugar mixture. Drop by heaping teaspoon on cookie sheet. Dip a glass into softened butter and then into cinnamon sugar mix to flatten. Bake at 350' 12-15 minutes