How to Cook Perfect Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting

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Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting. These really are Grandma's Best Sugar Cookies! They're perfectly soft, a little bit chewy, with the right amount of tang from the sour cream. This Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe is a copycat recipe of the grandma's big, frosted cookies sold in grocery stores.

Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting In a large bowl, cream the sugar, butter, vanilla and salt. Combine the flour, baking powder and baking soda; add to creamed mixture. Note: This will give you enough to frost a batch of cookies, but I always double the recipe so I have LOTS of frosting to play with. You can have Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting

  1. Prepare of Cookies.
  2. It's 1/2 cup of Real Butter.
  3. You need 1 cup of Crisco.
  4. Prepare 2 cups of Granulated Sugar.
  5. Prepare 2 tsp of Almond Flavoring.
  6. You need 4 of Eggs.
  7. Prepare 5 cups of Flour.
  8. Prepare 2 tsp of Baking Powder.
  9. Prepare 2 tsp of Salt.
  10. Prepare of Frosting.
  11. Prepare 1/2 cup of Real Butter.
  12. Prepare 4 cups of Powdered Sugar.
  13. You need 1 tsp of Almond Flavoring.
  14. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Kosher Salt.
  15. Prepare of Whipping Cream to consistency.
  16. You need of Food Coloring.

A classic no-fail recipe, delicious when topped with cream cheese frosting. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. In a large bowl, blend together butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla with a hand mixer until light and fluffy. Add in powder sugar a little at a time.

Grandma's Sugar Cookies and Frosting instructions

  1. Cream together butter, crisco, granulated sugar, almond flavoring until light and fluffy (at least 4 minutes)..
  2. Add eggs, one at a time until blended..
  3. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Resift 2 more times..
  4. Add dry ingredients to cookie batter and blend well..
  5. Chill for 15-20 minutes..
  6. Roll out to 1/4" thickness on lightly floured surface..
  7. Bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes..
  8. Frosting: Cream butter, salt and flavoring until light and fluffy. Add powdered sugar. Add whipping cream a little at a time until proper consistency. Frost and decorate as desired..

After the sugar has been mixed in, add about a teaspoon of water so the frosting becomes a spreading consistency. If the frosting is watery or it appears the sugar hasn't absorbed all of the butter, add more powedered sugar. Grandma J's Rolled Sugar Cookies - A lightly sweetened, moist, cake-like sugar cookie with whipped vanilla buttercream frosting. A family favorite recipe passed down from generation to generation. This is the best sour cream Rolled Sugar Cookie recipe I've made!