Sugar Cookies (401)

Since it's the week of Christmas, what's a better way than baking cookies with family. This weekend we did exactly that. We made four different types of cookies, Chex Mix, and Magic Cookie Bars. Today, I'm going to be sharing my family Sugar Cookie recipe.

Sugar Cookies:
1 cup Sugar
1 stick margarine
1/2 cup Crisco
1 Egg
dash of Salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
2.5 cups Flour
1 teaspoon vanilla

Bake at 350 for 8 minutes

Mix together the soften margarine, Crisco, egg, vanilla, and sugar together. If you having trouble because of wet ingredients, microwave it and it will be perfect. Then add in the rest of the ingredients and mix until you get the perfect cookie dough consistency. Now, scoop the sugar cookie onto a cookie sheet, before placing them into the oven, take a glass and coat it with sugar and press down the dough balls. This will create perfect circles and create the perfect sugar coating and how they get their name. If you want to cut out the dough into different shapes, roll out the dough and press the cutter and create a cute object of whatever your heart desires. Then into the oven they go and wait 8 minutes for deliciousness.

Take them out of the oven, and now your that much closer to being able to chowing down on the cookies by the dozen. Wait until the cookies are cooled and frost them. You can add color and create something festive or just use white frosting (this is what I did) or not even put frosting on them. And finally you can sprinkle on some sprinkles and create a masterpiece of cookie decorating.

This weekend my aunt also put on a cookie decorating for all the nieces and nephews. This can get a little chaotic with the five different colors of frosting and hundreds of different kinds of sprinkles. And the little ones dumping an entire bottle of sprinkles on one cookie, but they're just getting creative! :) And the different kinds of color combinations are endless.

Back to the cookies I made, they are simple but elegant and way too delicious. I especially love when they are frozen, yummmtastic!! Maybe there are a little too yummy, since all I want to do is eat them all, like literally the whole box. Happy baking and happy holidays!