Use this Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies Recipe to bring back all of those nostalgic Christmas memories making cookies with Grandma.
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This is the sugar cookie recipe I have always used with my grandma. I will never forget waiting til it was time to make these cookies. As you can see in photos below, they are plain with no colorings. My grandma would divide the dough into two different bowls and color one section green and one section red. That was always a fun addition and maybe we will do that next year!
Making Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies Recipe
This cookie recipe is easy to make! But be prepared…you do have to chill it. This part is very important so please do not skip it. This recipe makes about 5 dozen cookies, so you are going to want multiple baking sheets, and extra large ones at that! That’s what’s so nice about this recipe, you make so many with one batch. By the time the kids are done decorating them all you can have the kitchen cleaned! This is only one of the many things I like to make at Christmas time.
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The holidays get busy so keep in mind, you can make this recipe ahead of time! I will bake these a week in advanced and put them in the freezer. That way when it’s time to decorate, there’s much less of a mess and you can even enjoy helping the kids without thinking about the clean up afterwords. I typically lay down a dollar store table cloth and let the kids get wild. It’s more fun for them that way.
Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies
Equipment
- 1 Kitchen Aid Mixer (or hand held mixer)
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Butter Softened
- 1½ Cups Powdered Sugar
- 1 Whole Egg
- 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
- ½ Tsp Almond Extract
- 1 Tsp Baking Soda
- 1 Tsp Cream of Tartar
Instructions
- Using a mixer blend together butter, powdered sugar, egg, vanilla and almond extract.
- Then mix in the rest of the ingredients slowly.
- Cover and chill for 2-3 hours.
- Preheat oven to 375℉
- Roll out dough to ⅛ of an inch.
- Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes.
- Place on baking sheet (with parchment paper or lightly greased) 3 inches apart.
- Bake 7-9 minutes until edges are light brown.
