Recipe For Sugar Cookies Made With Shortening

This heritage recipe for crisco sugar cookies was passed down from my great grandmother and always without fail produces sweet soft sugar cookies.

Recipe for sugar cookies made with shortening. If you want to get the best of both worlds buttery flavor but tenderness too use a combination of butter and shortening. Roll in additional sugar. Add the flour until your dough forms then cover with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour before rolling out your dough for cut out sugar cookies.

Old fashioned soft molasses cookies. Beat in flour baking soda and salt until combined. Beat in egg and vanilla.

In a large bowl beat shortening with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Put mixer on low speed gradually add flour and beat until mixture. To make vintage betty crocker rolled sugar cookies for best results cream together the shortening and sugar.

Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until lightly browned. This recipe makes a small batch of cookies perfect for dormitory snacks. Place on greased baking sheets.

Sugar cookies with shortening make perfect cut out cookies and can be colored and decorated as gorgeous cookies for santa. Drop by rounded tablespoon 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheet. Beat shortening and sugar in large bowl with mixer on high speed 2 minutes.

Cream together shortening and sugars butter may be used as the shortening but cookies will spread more and brown. Don t however substitute butter with shortening in cookies like shortbreads or sugar cookies where butter really is a key flavoring. Add eggs and vanilla.