Rolled Sugar Cookies |
1. Stir together flour, baking powder, ad 1/4 t salt.
2. Beat butter and oil for 30 seconds; add sugar and beat until fluffy.
3. Add egg, milk, and vanilla; beat well.
4. Add dry ingredients to beaten mixture, beating till well combined.
5. Cover and chill at least 3 hours.
6.Working with half the dough at a time, on a lightly floured surface roll to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut into desired shaped.
7. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 8 minutes. Let cool and transfer to a wire rack.
For icing:
I mix confectioners' sugar with water to make a glaze to spread over the cookies. You can add food coloring to it too. Add sprinkles or other decorations as desired.
**This is my favorite cookie and everyone always asks for the recipe.
The modern incarnation of the authentic sugar cookie can be traced back to the mid 1700s in Nazareth Pennsylvania. There, German Protestant settlers created the round, crumbly, buttery cookie that came to be known as the Nazareth Sugar Cookie. Sugar cookies probably derived from an earlier, unleavened cookie called a “jumble,” which is a biscuit that gained popularity in the 17th and 18th century in Europe chiefly because of the fact that, as a non-leavened food, it could be dried and stored for many months.
The modern Nazareth-style sugar cookie has gained enormous popularity in America. Sometime in the 1930s it became traditional for children to leave sugar cookies and milk out for Santa Clause on Christmas Eve. Because of how easy it is to cut and shape the sugar cookie dough, custom cookies have become wildly popular.
George Strait sings this song about Christmas Sugar Cookies that I can relate to:
"Christmas Cookies"
I sure do like those Christmas cookies sugar
I sure do like those Christmas cookies babe
The ones that look like Santa Claus
Christmas trees and bells and stars
I sure do like those Christmas cookies babe
Now Christmas cookies are a special treat
The more she bakes the more I eat
And sometimes I can't get myself to stop
Sometimes she'll wait til I'm asleep
And she'll take the ones that I didn't eat
And put those little sprinkley things on top
I sure do like those Christmas cookies sugar
I sure do like those Christmas cookies babe
The ones that look like Santa Claus
Christmas trees and bells and stars
I sure do like those Christmas cookies babe
Now those sprinkley things just make things worse
Cause it makes em taste better than they did at first
And they're absolutely impossible to resist
Some disappear to who knows where
But I make sure I get my share
And those kids just stand there waiting for the ones I miss
I sure do like those Christmas cookies sugar
I sure do like those Christmas cookies babe
She gets mad if they're all gone
Before she gets the icing put on
I sure do like those Christmas cookies babe
Now there's a benefit to all of this
That you might have overlooked or missed
So now let me tell you the best part of it all
Every time she sticks another batch in the oven
There's fifteen minutes for some kissin' and huggin'
That's why I eat Christmas cookies all year long