Tastes Like Vintage: Sugar Cookies 2

Vintage apron by DearViolette

This week’s Tastes Like Vintage guest blogger is Susan from Sugarcookielady. 

Here’s my sugar cookie recipe that many request from me. I initially started with my Grandma’s signature recipe and changed a few details (vanilla and butter amounts). This recipe is dear to my family as my Grandma was an excellent cook. From her vast repertoire of Southern dishes, these cookies would taste top honors if her many grandchildren were voting…followed closely by chicken and dumplings and peach cobbler.

Susan’s Sugar Cookies

Susan’s Sugar Cookies

3 sticks (1 1/2 cups) butter, softened
3 cups granulated sugar
3 eggs
2 generous tsp. vanilla
6 cups flour, sifted
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt

Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla and eggs and mix well. Add dry ingredients slowly, mixing until dough forms ball. Do not over beat. Separate into 3 disks and wrap tightly in plastic wrap. Let chill in fridge for about an hour. You want firm dough, but not rock hard.
Flour work surface and roll out dough. Cut with cutters and place shapes on parchment lined baking sheet. Place baking sheet in fridge about 15 minutes. (Chilled, cut shapes will hold their shape much better than room temp. dough).

Bake about 10 minutes in 325 oven.

Frost with royal icing (if desired) and let dry about 6-8 hours. Enjoy!

(Grandma liked to frost them while warm with a butter and powdered sugar icing that “melted” into the cookies to keep them soft.)

Aluminum cookie cutters by Vintage Gypsies

Vintage rolling pin by Circa810