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amish sugar cookies

(3 ratings)
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Recipe by
Sharon Morgan
@sharon78070
Spring Branch, TX

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!

(3 ratings)
yield 7 dozen
prep time 30 Min
cook time 1 Hr 10 Min

Ingredients For amish sugar cookies

  • 4-1/2 c
    sifted flour
  • 1 tsp
    baking soda
  • 1 tsp
    cream of tartar
  • 1 c
    butter or regular margarine
  • 1 c
    cooking oil
  • 1 c
    sugar
  • 1 c
    sifted powdered sugar
  • 2
    eggs
  • 1 tsp
    vanilla
  • 1 c
    chopped walnuts
  • -
    extra sugar

How To Make amish sugar cookies

  • 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.
  • 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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