amish sugar cookies
This is my all-time favorite sugar cookie recipe. It comes from the "Farm Journal's Best-Ever Cookies" book by Patricia A Ward (c) 1980. I make them every year at Christmas and decorate with various colored sugar. The texture is like a shortbread. Yummy!
prep time
30 Min
cook time
1 Hr 10 Min
method
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yield
7 dozen
Ingredients
- 4-1/2 cups sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 cup butter or regular margarine
- 1 cup cooking oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup sifted powdered sugar
- 2 - eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- - - extra sugar
How To Make amish sugar cookies
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Step 1**Sift together flour, baking soda and cream of tartar; set aside. Cream together butter, oil, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup powdered sugar in mixing bowl until light and fluffy, using electric mixer at medium speed. Add eggs, one at ta time, beating well after each addition. Blend in vanilla. **Gradually stir dry ingredients into creamed mixture, mixing well. Add walnuts and stir to incorporate evenly. **Drop mixture by rounded teaspoonfuls, about 3' apart on greased baking sheets. Grease the bottom of a glass and dip into extra sugar. Flatten dough with the sugared glass. **Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes, or until lightly browned around the edges. Remove from baking sheets; cool on racks.
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Step 2**Note** I form dough balls about 1-1/2 inches in diameter instead of dropping by teaspoonfuls. It saves time because I can make all the balls and have them ready to place on the sheets as I rotate them in and out of the oven.
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