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Soft Sugar Cookies Recipe


Soft Sugar Cookies Recipe
Over 100 year old recipe, cookie with a soft consistency and wonderful flavor. Alton Brown could probably explain the scientific reason these cookies work, but I know that the best vanilla flavoring makes the best flavored cookie and the buttermilk ... More

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Ingredients
  • 2 cups of sugar
  • plus more for dusting cookies right before baking
  • 1 1/2 cups trans fat free vegetable shortening
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon of real vanilla extract
  • 4 1/2 cups of all purpose flour, sifted
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 1 cup of buttermilk, mixed with 1 teaspoon of baking soda

Directions
  1. Cream together the 2 cups of sugar with the shortening.
  2. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition.
  3. Add the vanila.
  4. Mix the flour and the baking powder together.
  5. Beginning with the flour mixture, add the flour mixture and buttermilk mixture to the beaten sugar mixture, ending with the flour mixture.
  6. Preheat the oven to 360 degrees.
  7. Lightly flour a cookie sheet and drop batter by the soup spoon full onto it.
  8. Dust the tops with sugar.
  9. Bake for 12 minutes each until very lightly browned.
  10. Remove from pan and cool on a cookie rack.
  11. Nibble with a cup of hot tea,and know you are savoring a little bit of history.

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Love SOFT sugar cookies! Thanks for this great recipe!


Well, it looks like I have my cookies planned for New Year's Eve. I have the Italian Lemon Cookies and now this lovely one and I'm honestly all set. Thank you for sharing!


I love soft sugar cookies too.... these sound like they would be wonderful with my cuppa coffee...... thanks for the post!!!!


Mmm-sounds awesome.Never seen these w/buttermilk before,but I bet they're excellent!
Thanks,
Carrie :)


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