Mom’s Melt-In-Your-Mouth Sugar Cookies
Mom's Melt-In-Your-Mouth Sugar Cookies
These are my Mom’s Melt-In-Your-Mouth Sugar Cookies, and they’re the best Christmas cookie! Soft, delicate and so delicious!
If you’re looking for a sugar cookie that really does melt in your mouth, this is it! These cookies are rich and so flavourful, they’ll quickly become a favourite! There’s a reason this recipe is one of my site’s most popular recipes! For me, the holidays just don’t feel like the holidays without these delectable little treats.
What readers are saying!
Melt-in-Your-Mouth Delicious!
You may have your own family recipe, but today I’ll share mine! Just in case you need a new recipe to add to your recipe box! These sugar cookies really are soft and melt-in-your-mouth good. And um, they’re very low-cal. Yes. Yes they are…at least that’s what I tell myself this time of year… 😉
Perfect for gift giving and sharing!
Who doesn’t love to receive homemade cookies during the holiday season?! These pretty (and delicious) cookies make a great gift. Wrap them up in some festive parchment paper, and gift them to friends, family, neighbours or teachers. They’re also great for potlucks.
Sugar Cookie Recipe Tips
- Flour: Use all-purpose flour.
- Powdered Sugar: Also called confectioner’s or icing sugar.
- Cream of Tartar: If you don’t have this, you can use an equal amount of baking powder instead.
- Refrigerate the dough before baking. Make sure to do this. This cookie doughs needs at least 1 hour cooling time for best baking.
- Toppings: For these cookies I used edible sparkle sprinkles (add them after the cookies have baked and cooled). You could use regular sprinkles or even coarse sugar instead.
- Is this a good recipe for frosting? I don’t think so because the cookies are so delicate.
- Is this a good recipe for cut outs? No. This is a drop cookie and the batter will not roll easily for cookie cutting. If you’re looking for a recipe for cut outs, this one is great!
- Storage: Keep these cookies in an airtight container.
- Freezing: These cookies freeze well after they are baked. I have not frozen the dough, so I’m not sure how that would work, but I would definitely try it…I don’t see why it wouldn’t freeze well.
Mom’s Melt-In-Your-Mouth Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter at room temperature
- 1 cup vegetable oil or canola
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 4 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- With an electric mixer cream together the butter, oil and sugars.
- Add the eggs, one at a time. Then add the vanilla. Mix until nice and fluffy.
- In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, salt, cream of tartar and baking soda.
- Add the flour mix to the butter mix, and combine until fluffy.
- Chill dough in the fridge for at least 1 hour or longer.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- When ready to bake, drop the batter by the tablespoons onto the cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes, making sure not to let them brown.
- Let the cookies cool on a wire rack.
- If you like you can decorate your cookies! Depending on the type of sprinkles you decide to decorate with, you can sprinkle them on before you bake them. The sprinkles I used here are too delicate for baking so I sprinkled them on after.
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