Granny’s Sugar Cookies

Granny’s Sugar Cookies

  • Prep Time: 5 mins
  • Total Time: 15 mins
  • Yield: 2dozen

    • About This Recipe

    “You can make beautiful cookies with this simple recipe for successful holiday baking or parties. Can’t beat home-made sugar cookies! Hope you like them…”

    Ingredients

    Cream together

  • 1/2 cupbutter
  • 1cupsugar

    • Blend in

  • 1largeegg

    • Sift together and add to mixture

  • 2 -2 1/4 cupsall-purpose flour
  • 2teaspoonsbaking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoonsalt
  • 1/2 teaspoonvanilla

    • Directions

  • Divide dough in two parts.
  • Chill 1 to 2 hours for easy handling.
  • Roll dough, one part at a time, (keep 2nd cold till ready to roll) to 1/8-inch thickness and cut with cookie cutters.
  • Transfer to cookie sheet.
  • Preheat oven to 375°F.
  • Bake for 8-10 minutes.
  • Frost if desired.

    • Reviews

  • “Do you know your sugar cookies have traveled all the way to France?! I’m an American who relocated to France a year ago and I love recipezaar because it helps me remember American style cooking! Anyway, we LOVED these sugar cookies! They were delicious!What a yummy recipe!”

  • “Very good! A nice basic rolled sugar cookie recipe that yields a dough that’s easy to work with. We added food coloring for our pumpkin cookies, subbed with margarine and added a dash of almond extract for a little more flavor. Thanks for posting! We uploaded a picture of our Halloween cookies too.”

  • “We called these “Granny Cookies” growing up.My Granny would add nutmeg and walnuts, chocolate chips or raisins.We just drop by spoon instead of rolling them out.Also, have a glass of milk handy for dunking. Yummy memories.”

  • “Emergency cookie recipe, ran out of gingerbread in the middle of houses!! So we used this for the roof!! Rolled it out quite thin and baked for 8 min.Pretty good, I didn’t have any flavorings but thought they tasted fine.If making for strictly eating i would add vanilla and almond though.”

  • “YUK!!! Sorry Granny:(These were extremely BLAND and not one kid out of 5 would eat them. They did try and spit them out. Maybe ALOT better if it had MORE alot more sugar or something. They liked the sprinkles I put on them…but thats it.Do more searches before making these and see the differences. “

  • “I’ve made this receipe many times now and it always comes out perfectly.Very, very good.I was careful to watch the timing, and found they were done after 8 minutes.Thanks for the recipe!”

  • “I also added 1/2 teaspoon of almond extract. These were great. They tasted like the ones my own mom used to make. “

  • “This is a great rolled cookie recipe (and I had been looking for a while). I was happy that they held up and rolled out easily without getting too soft, even with my daughter doing the rolling and cutting (over and over…). I was a little puzzled about how much flour to use, since there was no guidance on when to use which amount, but I used 2 c. and liked the texture and taste. Also, the placement of the vanilla in the directions was a bit confusing. I added it with the egg, but someone who had never made cookies might not think to do that. Mine were perfectly cooked after 8 min., but I like them thick, so I advise watching them. This will be my new rolled sugar cookies recipe! Thank you!”

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