Recipe Swappers: Sugar cookies

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

submitted by Mrs. T

1 1/4 cups butter, softened

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

5 cups flour

1 tsp. salt

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 tsp. nutmeg

1/2 cup milk

Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat until fluffy. Sift

together dry ingredients and add alternately with milk. If the dough is

sticky, add flour if necessary to make the dough easier to handle.

Roll dough 1/4” thick on a well-floured surface, and cut with cookie

cutters of your choice. Sprinkle with colored sugars or sprinkles.

Bake on ungreased baking sheets at 375° for 8 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool. Makes about 100 cookies.

I’m sure we used this recipe or a very similar one when I was growing

up. It came from Farm Journal and was supposed to be very easy for

children to roll and cut. I used this recipe for my own kids to make

and decorate cut-out cookies when they were young.