Worlds Best Sugar Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Cream butter with 1 cup powdered sugar and 1 cup granulated sugar.
• Beat in eggs until smooth.
• Slowly stir in oil, vanilla, baking soda, cream of tartar, salt and flour.
• Chill for easy handling.
• Shape into walnut-size balls. Dip in sugar. Place on baking sheet and press down with the bottom of a glass.
• Bake at 350 degrees 10 to 12 minutes.
• Make about 4 dozen.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Beat oil and butter until blended.
• Add powdered sugar and 1 cup sugar; beat well.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla.
• Sift flour, soda, cream of tartar and salt together.
• Stir into sugar mixture.
• Mix well.
• Chill at least 2 hours.
• Roll into 1-inch balls; roll balls in sugar.
• Place cookies on ungreased cookie sheet and flatten with bottom of glass dipped in sugar.
• The cookies should be flattened to 2-inch rounds; don't flatten too thin.
• Bake for 10-14 minutes or until brown around the edges.

Steps:

• In a small pan, melt the butter.
• While its still hot, add sugar.
• Then let cool for a while.
• While the butter mixture is cooling, mix the flour, soda, and salt in a mixing bowl.
• In a small bowl, beat the egg lighlty with a fork, then add the egg and vanilla to the butter mixture.
• Stir.
• Now add the butter, egg, and vanilla mixture into the flour mixture.
• Stir again.
• Stir everything until its all mixed up well and put the bowl in the refrigerator to cool for about an hour.
• About 5-10 minutes before you take them out, turn your oven on to 375 degrees.
• When time's up, get your cookie sheet and smear with a little butter or crisco.
• Roll the dough into walnut-sized balls.
• (For a better taste you could sprinkle some sugar on top of the walnut-shaped pieces of dough.) Place them on cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes.
• Don't OVERCOOK!
• You want your cookies to be moist and chewy.
• Let them cool for about 15 minutes and then their ready to eat!

Steps:

• Beat the butter, sugar, salt and vanilla together until smooth and creamy.
• Mix in the egg yolk until well incorporated, scraping down the sides of the bowl at least once.
• Add the flour and mix just until incorporated.
• Scrape onto a lightly floured board and knead a few times, just until the dough smooths out.
• Turn onto a sheet of plastic wrap and roll into a log, wrap up and refrigerate for several hours or freeze.
• Before baking, preheat the oven to 325°F.
• Line your baking sheets with parchment.
• Slice the dough into slices about 1/8" thick and place them on the sheets about an inch apart (they won't be spreading very much, but they need air room around each cookie).
• Bake until JUST beginning to turn golden around the edges, about 16-18 minutes.
• Note: you can do many things with these cookies.
• You could roll the dough out and cut shapes.
• You could slice them even thinner and sandwich them with chocolate or jam or lemon curd.
• You could make them and then dip them half into chocolate.
• You could just make them and eat them, which is my favorite.
• Whatever you do, they will be delicious.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Cream butter and sugars; add oil and eggs.
• Mix together dry ingredients. Add to liquid ingredients.
• Roll into small balls. Flatten with glass dipped in sugar.
• Bake 10-12 minutes. Cool on pan for 2 minutes. Remove.
• Just a note I pulled mine out of the oven at 9 minutes. They were perfect.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and extracts. Combine the flour, salt, baking soda and nutmeg; gradually add to creamed mixture. Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours or until easy to handle., On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with floured 2-1/2-in. cookie cutters. , Place 1-in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° until edges begin to brown, 8-10 minutes. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For icing, in a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, water and meringue powder; beat on low speed just until combined. Beat on high until soft peaks form, 4 minutes. Cover icing with damp paper towels or plastic wrap between uses., Working quickly, spread or pipe icing over cookies; let dry at room temperature for several hours or until firm. Use small new paintbrushes or toothpicks and food coloring to make designs on the cookies. Let stand until set. Store in an airtight container.