Simple Sugar Cookies-No Rolling Required
An easy, small-batch sugar cookie recipe with ingredients you already have in your pantry. They mix up quickly, stirring by hand. You will love these yummy, flaky cookies.
Equipment
- cookie sheet
- cooling rack
- parchment paper
Ingredients
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- ½ cup shortening
- ½ cup vegetable or canola oil
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- ½ tsp cream of tartar
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ cup sugar (used to flatten the cookies)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 °F
- Mix sugars, shortening and oil in a medium size mixing bowl. Stir by hand until well combined and most lumps are gone.
- Stir in egg.
- Measure flour, cream of tartar and soda into a sifter and sift ingredients into the mixing bowl. If you don't have a sifter, just pour ingredients directly into the bowl. The sifting creates a lighter cookie, which is amazing.
- Stir all ingredients together, mixing well and making sure it is well combined.
- Place parchment paper on cookie sheet, or grease the pan.
- Drop dough onto the cookie sheet using a small dough scoop or a regular size spoon. Then shape into balls.
- Grease the bottom of a drinking glass.
- Pour ½ cup of sugar into a small bowl.
- Dip the greased glass into the sugar, then gently flatten the cookie. Leave the cookie fairly thick, just a slight flattening.
- Continuing dipping the glass in sugar, then flattening each ball of dough.
- Bake for 7-8 minutes, depending on how done you like the edges. My oven does well with 8 minutes.
- Cool for a minute before placing cookies on a wire rack. Let them cool completely on the wire rack before storing them in an airtight container of cookie jar.
- Be sure and eat a few while they are warm.
- Makes 24-30 cookies.