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Great Grandma's Sugar Cookies

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Great Grandma's Sugar Cookies

Lisa
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24 Servings
17 Ingredients
2 Comments

This recipe, passed down for 4 generations now, brings warm memories of my childhood. My sister and I made these sugar cookies with homemade Vanilla Butter Frosting for almost every holiday!

24 Servings
17 Ingredients
2 Comments

Ingredients

  • 4 cups Flour, All-Purpose #1
  • 2 cups Sugar
  • ½ teaspoons Salt
  • 1 cup Butter #1
  • 3 individual beat Egg
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla #1
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1 tablespoon Water, Hot
  • 3 tablespoons Flour, All-Purpose #2
  • ⅓ cups soften Butter #2
  • 3 cups Powdered Sugar
  • 1 ½ teaspoons Vanilla #2
  • 2 tablespoons Milk
Serving Day Ingredients
  • 5 individual Food Coloring, Yellow
  • 5 individual Food Coloring, Blue
  • 5 individual Food Coloring, Green
  • 5 individual Food Coloring, Red

Containers

Supplies

  • Plastic Wraps
  • Baking Sheets
  • Labels

Cooking Instructions

Freeze For Later Cooking Day Directions

Bake

These directions help you cook or prepare this meal PRIOR to being frozen for serving later (see Serving Day Directions when you are ready to prepare it to eat).

Why would I want to freeze this?

  1. In a mixing bowl sift flour, sugar and salt together, cutting in the butter #1.
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Make From Frozen Serving Day Directions

Easy Assembly/Ready to Eat

These directions help you cook or reheat this meal AFTER it's been frozen for when you are ready to eat it.

  1. Thaw: In fridge
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Make It Now Cooking Directions

Oven Cook

These directions are for cooking this recipe to serve immediately and NOT to freeze for later.

  1. In a mixing bowl sift flour, sugar and salt together, cutting in the butter #1.
  2. Make a hollow in the center of the dry ingredients.
  3. Add eggs, and vanilla #1 to the well.
  4. Dissolve baking soda in hot water and add to egg and vanilla.
  5. Using your hands, stir the flour into the wet mixture.
  6. Cover and place in fridge for several hours.
  7. Dust flour onto a clean working surface and roll dough to approximately x 1/4 inch thickness. I usually do about 1/4 of the dough at a time, for ease of rolling and cutting.
  8. Using your favorite cookie cutters, begin to cut the shapes from the dough, re rolling and adding more dough in as needed.
  9. Place cookies on greased cookie sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 5-10 minutes or until just starting to turn light brown.
  10. Cool cookies completely on rack before frosting.
  11. For frosting, blend butter #2 and powdered sugar with a mixer.
  12. Stir in the vanilla #2 and milk, beating until frosting is smooth and of spreading consistency.
  13. Divide into bowls, adding food coloring if desired.
  14. Decorate cookies as desired.

Nutrition Facts

Servings Per Recipe
24 Servings
Serving Size
2 cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories
317
Total Fat
11g
Saturated Fat
7g
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
55mg
Sodium
103mg
Total Carbohydrates
51g
Fiber
1g
Sugar
33g
Protein
4g
WW Freestyle
15

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