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Soft Sugar Cookies IV

By: Laura Stearns

"This Recipe is a State Fair Blue Ribbon winner. This is an easy sugar cookie recipe, you don't have to roll it out, and the cookies are soft and chewy, unlike other sugar cookies. Anybody can make these."

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Original Recipe Yield 4 1/2 dozen

Ingredients

2/3 cup shortening
2/3 cup butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup granulated sugar for decoration

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, shortening and sugar. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt, stir into the creamed mixture until dough comes together. Roll dough into walnut sized balls and roll the balls in sugar. Place them on an unprepared cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
Bake cookies 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until bottom is light brown. Remove from baking sheets to cool on wire racks.

Nutritional Information

Amount Per Serving Calories: 227 | Total Fat: 11.3g | Cholesterol: 31mg Powered by ESHA Nutrient Database

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Reviewed on Dec. 28, 2006 by HLBTIMES2

We used this recipe for rolled out cookies. I baked them for 11 minute- I took them out before...

Reviewed on Nov. 16, 2006 by lauralie1978

Absolutely wonderful! Be sure to cream the butter, shortening, and sugar together until...

Reviewed on Oct. 5, 2007 by wifeyluvs2cook

I couldnt believe how delicious and soft these cookies came out! I was soo undecided on which...

Reviewed on May 12, 2007 by Alice

I enjoyed this recipe. There was nothing really spectacular about the flavor. It tasted like a...

Reviewed on Dec. 4, 2006 by michelle

I used to love the sugar cookies they had in the Mall (at $2 a cookie!) because they were...

Reviewed on May 11, 2005 by TOYMOMMY

Very easy to make! I use margarine for the shortening. They remind me of Lofthouse...

Reviewed on Nov. 2, 2007 by CHER

These are just excellent. I made them exactly according to the recipe and they got rave...

Reviewed on Jan. 25, 2004 by NOKI

These cookies are great! I also made them without rolling in sugar and then frosted them -...

Reviewed on Dec. 2, 2007 by Jeanie

Wow - these cookies are amazing! They mixed up easily and well and sat nicely on the sheet. ...

Reviewed on Nov. 28, 2007 by Nikki The Great

Made these and they would have been great. One small problem,.... I forgot to put in the...

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