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Welcome to Sugar Cookie Recipe Central
Here you will find many different sugar cookie recipes. Sugar cookies come in many shapes and sizes and can be soft or crispy. For most americans they evoke memories of grandma's house. This is collection of different recipes, tools and even a mystery to help you bake your perfect sugar cookie.
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"Seventeen's" Cut-Out Sugar Cookie Recipe
My Grandma's Lemon Sugar Cookie Recipe
They are thin and crispy with a light lemon flavor. They are not overly sweet. They keep very well and I actually like them better a little stale because the lemon flavor comes up more the older they get.
The recipe makes several dozen cookies.
Heat oven to 375 degrees.
1 1/2 cups shortening*
2 1/4 cups sugar
3 eggs, well beaten
5 1/4 cups all purpose flour, sifted
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
*(can be all shortening or a mixture of shortening and butter - I usually use 3/4 cups butter and 3/4 cups Crisco shortening)
Cream shortening. Add sugar gradually and cream together until light and fluffy. Stir in well-beaten eggs and beat until thick. Add lemon rind.
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. See note below. Add dry ingredients to the shortening, sugar, egg and lemon mixture one cup at a time.
Divide into 3 or 4 parts, wrap in waxed paper, and chill thoroughly (several hours or overnight).
Once chilled, roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick on a floured surface and cut out with cookie cutters. If you're baking in a warm climate you will want to keep each piece of dough in the refrigerator until you're ready to work with it. Otherwise I like to let it sit at room temperature for 5 or 10 minutes before I start rolling it out.
Place on ungreased baking sheets with a 1/2 inch margin between cookies to allow for any spreading. (If you don't want them to spread, chill entire sheet before baking.)
Add colored sugars, sprinkles, and any other decorations before baking.
Bake until just barely brown around the edges, which is 8 to 15 minutes depending on your oven and baking sheet.
Let cool and then frost undecorated cookies, if desired. (These are good just plain, too.)
Note: Since I've started using a Kitchen-Aid mixer to make these cookies I don't sift together the dry ingredients first. Instead, I mix in the salt and baking powder to the creamed mixture first, then add the flour. Also, depending on the weather and humidity, you may need slightly less flour. You want to end up with dough the consistency of Play-Dough. The sifting of dry ingredients is just to help distribute the salt and baking powder more evenly when you're mixing by hand.
Cut-Out Sugar Cookie Recipes
- Best Ever Sugar Cookie Recipe?
- Article with "grandma's" sugar cookie recipe in it.
- Simply Recipes: Sugar Cookies Recipe
- Two different recipes on one page.
- No Fail Sugar Cookie Recipe « Fancy Flours: Where Bakers Bloom
- These hold their shape. Wonder where they got the snowflake cutter?
- Brown Sugar Shortbread
- Cut-out shortbread recipe with a brown sugar twist.
- "Mom's" Nutmeg Sugar Cookies
- Basic roll-out sugar cookie with nutmeg to flavor them.
- 'Mom's' Old Fashion "Puffy" Sugar Cookies
- "Mix all ingredients together like pie dough."
- Norwegian Sugar Cookies
- Must be the cream of tartar that makes them Norwegian.
- Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies
- These have orange extract as a flavoring.
- Martha Stewart's Basic Sugar Cookies
- Basic cut out sugar cookies.
- Sugar Cookies Recipe: Recipes: Food Network
- Enjoy this Sugar Cookies recipe from Good Eats
Drop Sugar Cookie Recipes
- Cooks.com - Recipe - Anne's Drop Sugar Cookies
- Interesting recipe that uses buttermilk.
- Quick and Easy Drop Sugar Cookies
- Uses oil instead of shortening or butter.
- Astray Recipes: Lemon drop sugar cookies
- Easy lemon drop sugar cookies.
- Stir & Drop Sugar Cookies
- Drop spoonfuls and then flatten with a glass.
How to Make Sugar Cookies a Work of Art
The Flour Pot Cookie Book
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/25/2008)
Sugarbakers Cookie Cutter Cookbook
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Creative Cookies: Delicious Decorating for Any Occasion
Amazon Price: $10.36 (as of 07/25/2008)
Cookie Sensations: Creative Designs for Every Occasion
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 07/25/2008)
Molded Sugar Cookie Recipes
- Sugar Cookies With Options
- With different ways to decorate and embellish.
- Cookie Recipes
- Recipes for both plain vanilla and chocolate cookies that can be molded by hand or with using a cookie mold.
- Amish Sugar Cookies
- Refrigerate overnight before molding into balls.
- Raised Sugar Cookies
- Yeast is an unusual ingredient in these cookies.
Great Tools for Making Sugar Cookies
I don't know how I made cookies all those years before I got my Kitchen-Aid mixer. I thought using one was "cheating"...not any more.
KitchenAid KSM150PSAC Artisan Series 5-Quart Mixer
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KitchenAid K45SS Classic 250-Watt 4-1/2-Quart Stand Mixer, White
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Cookie Stamps, set of 12
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Snowflake Cookie Cutter Set - 8 pcs
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Kaiser Patisserie 9-Piece Christmas Cookie Cutter Set with Storage Ring
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Heart in Hand Cookie Cutter
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Butterfly Cookie Cutters, Set of 7
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Silpat Petite Liner - 8.25x11.75"
The nonstick silicon baking sheet insert that Mart more...0 points
AirBake by WearEver Natural 3 piece baking sheet combo Small, Medium, Large
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1 1/4" Stainless Cookie Scoop
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Savory Sugar Cookies
Sweet, salty, herby - Savory!
Try adding some basil to the "Seventeen's" lemon cookies above and serving them with homemade cream of tomato soup. Or go one step further and basil and pine nuts for pesto sugar cookies. Or how about a sweet curry cardamom cookie? Maybe Tabasco sauce cookies (think pepper jelly). The possibilities are endless. (Perhaps I've been watching too much Top Chef! I wish I had time to try these ideas out.)
- Ginger-Lemon-Sage Cookies
- The lemon sage combination is showing up in all sorts of desserts these days.
- Sweet Sage (or other herb) Cookies
- Herbs and cornmeal are tasty additions to these sugar cookies.
- Lavender-Lemon Sugar Cookies
- Lavender is another herb that is enjoying a renaissance as an edible. I've seen lavender shortbread for sale in more than one coffee shop.
- Garlic Sugar Cookies
- This isn't a recipe, but I put the link here for inspiration because I couldn't find a garlic cookie recipe. My favorite garlic bread is when the bread is slightly sweet so I thought, why not garlic sugar cookies?
- Ethel's Nice Tomato Cookies
- Okay, I know that tomatoes are really a fruit, and these cookies are probably completely sweet, but I included it here because it's pretty wild to think of sugar cookie sandwiches with a sweet tomato filling.
- Savory Toasted Walnut Rosemary Salt Cookies
- There is no sugar in these at all, but they look like sugar cookies.
Sites About Sugar Cookies
Recipes and more
- Sugar Cookies - Mahalo
- Sugar cookies are popular cookies that are typically made with sugar, salt, vanilla, milk, eggs, flour, vinegar and milk. Fast Facts: Originated in Medieval Arabia Americanized in Nazareth area of Pennsylvania during the 1700s Official cookie of Pennsylvania state Dough must be chilled before baking.
Fun Social Networking Websites for Cooks!
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Group Recipes - Food Social Network
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BakeSpace.com - Recipe Swap and Food Social Network
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Watch How to Make 'Em
A Mystery to Read While Your Cookies Bake
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