Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe

This Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe makes producing a batch of sugar cookies about as easy as it gets because there is no rolling and cutting. There's still work involved but it's not much and with a little practice it gets easier.

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Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe

1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 whole eggs
1 cup salad oil
Pinch of salt
1 tsp. Vanilla
5 cups plain unsifted flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cream of tartar

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Cream the butter and sugar. Add the eggs one at a time and incorporate each into the creamed mixture before adding the oil, salt and vanilla. Measure the flour and sift along with the other dry ingredients. Gradually mix the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients with a wooden spoon.

Roll the sugar cookie dough into walnut-sized balls and roll in sugar. Put sugar cookie balls on a cookie sheet and flatten with a glass dipped in sugar. Allow room on the cookie sheet for spreading. Bake 10 to 12 minutes in a 350 degrees oven. Cool on rack and store in an airtight container.

This easy sugar cookie recipe calls for baking soda and cream of tartar. Baking soda is the leavening agent but by itself it lacks the acidity to make a cookie rise.

When combined with an acid ingredient such as buttermilk, yogurt or molasses, baking soda produces carbon dioxide gas bubbles, thereby causing the cookie dough to rise.

In this recipe the acid ingredient is cream of tartar, which is primarily potassium bitartrate, found in the juices of grapes and deposited on the sides of casks during winemaking.

This sediment is removed, purified and then ground to produce the fine white powder that we call cream of tartar.

In addition to being used in sugar cookies it is also used to give a creamier texture to sugary things like candy and frosting and to stabilize and increase the volume of beaten egg whites.

Cream of tartar can be found in the spice section of most grocery stores and should be stored in a cool dry place.

If you like you can try using an equal amount of baking powder instead of the baking soda and cream of tarter called for in the easy sugar cookie recipe.

You Might Need:

• Kitchen Supply Aluminum Half Size Sheet Pan 18-inch by 13-inch

• Calphalon 12-by-17-Inch Rectangular Nonstick Cooling Rack

• Silpat 11-5/8-by-16-1/2-Inch Nonstick Silicone Baking Mat

• Oxo Good Grips Cookie Scoop