Soft Sugar Cookies IV

Soft Sugar Cookies IV

This Recipe is a State Fair Blue Ribbon winner. This is an easy sugar cookie recipe, you don't have to roll it out, and the cookies are soft and chewy, unlike other sugar cookies. Anybody can make these.

Calories
228 Calories

Recipe Instructions

Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Step 2
In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, shortening and sugar. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt, stir into the creamed mixture until dough comes together. Roll dough into walnut sized balls and roll the balls in sugar. Place them on an unprepared cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
Step 3
Bake cookies 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until bottom is light brown. Remove from baking sheets to cool on wire racks.
Soft Sugar Cookies IV
Soft Sugar Cookies IV
Soft Sugar Cookies IV
Soft Sugar Cookies IV

Ingredients

  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups white sugar
  • 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • ⅔ cup butter
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ⅔ cup shortening
  • ⅓ cup granulated sugar for decoration

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