Last year I wanted to make Christmas cookies for the first time, so my mom emailed me her recipe, with this note:
"Don't ask me who Ethyl is. It's a family secret, ha ha."
Ethyl's Sugar Cookies
3/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups self-rising flour
Cream butter, sugar, eggs, & vanilla together.
Add flour.
Chill dough in refrigerator for 1 hour, or 30 minutes in freezer.
Roll out dough, about 1/4" thick.
*I use powdered sugar instead of flour to cover the counter & rolling pin.
Cut out & bake at 400 degrees for 6-8 minutes, or until slightly brown around the edges.
Let cool, then cover with frosting.
I'm lazy. I don't make my own frosting. I use either Duncan Hines Creamy Home Style Frosting or Betty Crocker Whipped Butter Cream Frosting. I have yet to receive any complaints.
I had a mother of a time (no pun intended) making these last Christmas. I couldn't get the dough to not stick to the rolling pin. Then it got too warm & had to be re-refrigerated. It was a nightmare. At some point I accepted that these cookies weren't going to get made, so I sat on the floor & ate the dough like a raccoon. Apparently the sugar bolt was all I needed because I somehow managed to make the cookies & they were really good.
I tried them again recently for Halloween & had more success. I've since learned the trick to rolling out dough, so that was no problem. I did have an issue with removing the cookies from the baking sheet once they had cooled. I couldn't get them off & ended up breaking them all in half. I'm still not sure what I did wrong. Maybe I let them cool too long? Who knows. They still tasted good.
Bon appetit!
2 comments:
use parchment paper on your cookie sheets (butter the sheets, then the parchment paper sticks to it!) the stuff really, really works!
what? no pics? these sound delicious. how can you go wrong with butter and sugar? and what's your tip for rolling the dough? when i made pie crust last year i got a tip that said to use wax paper, two sheets, put the dough ball in the middle, and roll over the paper, then peel the paper off, but i only had medium success with this method.
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