Aunt Annies Sugar Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°.
• Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg together.
• In a large bowl, fully cream margarine and sugar together.
• Add soured milk alternately with the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture.
• Form dough into a ball, wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least one hour.
• Cut the dough into quarters and roll out one quarter at a time (it rolls and cuts the best if it is chilled, so keep the remaining sections in the refrigerator until you're ready to use them).
• I use a pastry mat to cut my dough out on. I have never had a problem with the dough being sticky, but you can lightly flour your work surface, if necessary (beware that it might change the flavor a bit if you over flour).
• Transfer the cut out cookies to an ungreased baking sheet. I like to sprinkle a little sugar on the tops of them before baking. My children like to put sprinkles on top first. Or, you can leave them plain and put icing on afterwards. We have too big a sweet tooth here to eat them plain.
• Bake in a 350°F oven for 7-9 minutes. Do not brown!
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Combine cake mix, butter, egg, vanilla, and almond extract in a large mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds. Stop the machine and scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat until the mixture comes together into a sticky ball, 30 to 45 seconds.
• Roll the dough to 1/4- to 1/2-inch thickness on a lightly floured board with a lightly floured rolling pin. Use cookie cutters to stamp out shapes and place them 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. (You can reroll the dough scraps once and cut out more cookies.) Brush the cookies with egg white and decorate with sprinkles.
• Place one pan in the oven at a time. Bake until the edges of the cookies are golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes for smaller cookies and 10 to 12 minutes for larger. Let the cookies rest on the cookie sheet for 1 minute, then remove to wire racks with a metal spatula to cool completely, about 20 minutes.

Steps:

• Sift together flour, sugar and salt into a bowl. Add beaten egg yolks and milk and mix to a firm dough. Chill.
• Combine walnuts, sugar and cinnamon. Add a little cream to make a paste.
• Roll out dough in a long rectangle that is 1/8" thick. Spread walnut mixture over dough and roll up, starting with the long side. Cut into ¼" thick slices. Put onto greased cookie sheet.
• Bake @ 375 degrees until golden brown.

Steps:

• Sprinkle yeast on lukewarm water in mixing bowl; stir to dissolve.
• Add sugar, salt, and stir to dissolve; add flour and knead dough until smooth and elastic.
• Let rise at least 1/2 hour.
• While dough is rising, prepare a baking soda water bath with 2 cups warm water and 2 Tbs.
• baking soda.
• Be certain to stir often.
• After dough has risen, pinch off bits of dough and roll into a long rope (about 1/2 inch or less thick) and shape.
• Dip pretzel into soda solution and place on greased baking sheet.
• Allow pretzel to rise again.
• Bake in a 450 degree oven for about 10 minutes or until golden.
• Brush with melted butter and enjoy!
• Toppings: After you brush with butter try sprinkling with coarse salt.
• Or for Auntie Anne's famous cinnamon sugar, try melting a stick of butter in a shallow bowl (big enough to fit the entire pretzel) and in another bowl, make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar.
• dip the pretzel into the butter, coating both sides generously.
• then dip again into the cinnamon mixture.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream sugar and shortening together.
• Add salt and eggs and mix well.
• Add vanilla and mix well.
• Add flour, baking soda, baking powder and sour cream and mix well.
• Roll the dough out to 1/4" to 3/8" thick, and cut cookies out in whatever shape you wish. Transfer cookies to a cookie sheet, and bake at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes.
• Sprinkle with sugar. Cool on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Cream shortening and eggs.
• Stir baking soda into milk and add with remaining ingredients and 5 cups of the flour.
• Add the remaining flour gradually until the dough "feels right". A little sticky is better than too dry as you will be working with it on a floured surface.
• Chill dough.
• Roll out to desired thickness and cut with favorite cookie cutters. I like to roll mine on the thick side for a soft cookie, but if you want crisper just roll it thinner.
• You can brush with water and sprinkle with sugar before baking or leave plain and decorate with frosting after they are cooled. They are yummy either way.
• Bake at 400* about 8 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
• This recipe makes a lot of cookies, depending of course upon the size cutters and thickness you choose.

Steps:

• Blend butter, sugar and eggs well. Sift dry ingredients while adding to butter mixture. Roll out on floured board quite thin. Cut out with cookie cutter and place on greased cookie sheet. Bake 350 for 10 minutes. While still hot, sprinkle top of cookies with white sugar and let cool on cookie sheet a little. Store in an air tight container.