melt in your mouth sugar cookies

Name: Melt In Your Mouth Sugar Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Ingredients: 2 cup(s) all purpose flour; 1 teaspoon(s) cream of tartar; 1 teaspoon(s) baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt; 1 cup(s) powdered sugar; 1 cup(s) shortening; 1 teaspoon(s) vanilla; 1 - egg

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Leah Robertson

Siloam Springs, AR

Updated on Dec 2, 2012

This cookie is very light. I don't frost these with icing. They are kinda fragile and taste great with just sugar sprinkled on top or you could do cinnamon and sugar. I recommend you double the recipe!

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prep time 15 Min

cook time 10 Min

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Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup powdered sugar
1 cup shortening
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 - egg

How To Make melt in your mouth sugar cookies

Step 1

Sift together (I don't sift, I mix, but..) the first 4 ingredients.

Step 2

Cream the sugar and shortening. Add egg and vanilla to the creamed mixture.
Step 3

Beat and slowly add the dry ingredients until well combined.
Step 4

Roll dough into balls (1/2 the size of a golfball) and place on cookie sheet. Flatten the balls with a bottom of a glass dipped in grandulated sugar.
Step 5

Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
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