Janets Soft Sugar Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Mix flour, baking powder and salt, set aside.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Stir in egg and vanilla.
• Beat in dry ingredients.
• Add milk and mix.
• Chill dough for 30 minutes.
• Roll and cut into desired shapes.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 8-12 minutes.
• Glaze with your favorite glaze or with this frosting:.
• 2 cups powdered sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 tsp vanilla.
• Mix well.
• Add more powdered sugar if frosting is too thin.
• Add food coloring if desired and spread on cookies.
• Very tasty.

Steps:

• Mix the vinegar and milk to make sour milk.
• Add vanilla to the sour milk; set aside.
• In large mixing bowl, cream together sugar and shortening until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time.
• In separate bowl, blend together baking soda, salt, flour and baking powder.
• Add flour mixture, alternately with sour milk mixture, to the creamed sugar and egg mixture.
• Cover and refrigerate overnight.
• On floured surface, roll out dough to desired thickness, about 1/4 inch.
• Cut out with desired cookie cutter or cutters.
• Bake at 350 degrees for about 5-7 minutes; I like mine soft.
• Let set on cookie sheet for 1 minute before removing to wire rack to cool.
• Frost when cool.
• This recipe should make about 5-6 dozen, depending on the size of the cookie cutter you use.

Steps:

• Mix together butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, and almond extract in a large bowl.
• In another bowl stir together flour, soda, and cream of tartar.
• Slowly add the dry mixture to the wet ingredients.
• Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 375.
• Divide dough in half.
• On a lightly floured surface roll each half to 3/16 of an inch.
• Cut out shapes as desired and sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake on cookie sheets for about 8 minutes.

Steps:

• Cream sugar and butter thoroughly.
• Stir in eggs, sweet cream and vanilla.
• Sift dry ingredients and add.
• Chill before rolling.
• Take our a small amount at a time and roll about 1/4 inch thick.
• Cut our and sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake at 375 for 7 to 8 minutes.
• (Do not overbake or these will not remain soft. ).
• Remove from oven when just brown around the edges.

Steps:

• Cream together sugar and butter.
• Add the beaten eggs and vanilla.
• sift together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and nutmeg.
• Add to the first four ingredients.
• Let the dough chill for 2 hours.
• preheat oven to 425.
• roll out dough on lightly floured surface and cut the cookies about 1/2 inch thick.
• Try not to add too much flour to them it will ruin the texture of the cookies.
• Bake for 8 minutes.
• Let cool, then frost with any frosting you would like.

Steps:

• Cream together butter and sugar; add vanilla, eggs and milk. Add baking powder and flour. Roll, cut and bake or roll into balls and smash with the bottom of a sugared glass.
• Bake at 400 degrees for appx 4 min or until the edges just start to turn brown.