OLD FASHIONED SUGAR COOKIES From Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne
Fluke
From Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
Do not preheat oven yet-- dough must chill before baking.
2 cups melted butter (4 sticks)
2 cups powdered (confectioners') sugar (not sifted)
1 cup white (granulated) sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon lemon zest (optional)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar (critical!)
1 teaspoon salt
4 ΒΌ cups flour (not sifted)
1/2 cup white (granulated) sugar in a small bowl (for later)
Melt butter. Add sugars and mix. Let cool to room temperature and mix in the
eggs, one at a time. Then add the vanilla, lemon zest, baking soda, cream of
tartar, and salt. Mix well. Add flour in increments, mixing after each
addition.
Chill dough for at least one hour. (Overnight is fine.)
When you're ready to bake, preheat oven to 325 degrees F. and place rack in
the middle of the oven.
Use hands to roll dough in walnut-sized balls. Roll dough balls in a bowl of
white sugar. (Mix white sugar 2 to I with colored sugar for holidays--green
for St. Pat's Day, red and green for Christmas, multicolored for birthdays.)
Place on a greased cookie sheet, 12 to a standard sheet. Flatten dough balls
with a greased spatula.
Bake at 325 degrees F. for 10 to 15 minutes. (They should have a tinge of
gold on the top.) Cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes, then remove to a rack
to finish cooling. They can be decorated with frosting piped from a pastry
bag for special occasions or left just as they are.
Used these for the chorale's fundraiser decorated with music notes in fudge
frosting--rave reviews!
Yield: 8 to 10 dozen, depending on cookie size.
Later.
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