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Reviewed: Dec. 24, 2004
I've been searching for a great sugar cookie recipe,and this is it!! I didn't want to make cut out cookies,so I avoided the whole "too sticky to work with" dilemma. I did add just a tad more vanilla and flour. Great tasting cookie. They are great plain, or with frosting and sprinkles for Christmas! Thanks for the recipe!!!!
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Reviewed: Dec. 15, 2004
This recipe was not a great for cut out cookies, the dough was too soft. As a drop cookie is was really great.
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Reviewed: Dec. 4, 2004
My mom and I (neither of us are great cooks) tried this over Thanksgiving weekend. The dough was absolutely the tastiest cookie dough anybody in my family has ever experienced, but our entire batch was a flop! We don't know why -- high altitude, old flour, or maybe margarine instead of butter, or the weather -- but all of our cookies immediately flattened out into shapeless, paper-thin messes. We tried adding more flour to no avail. However, now that I'm back at sea level, I'm going to try it again with reveiwers' tips... that dough was just too tasty to give up on! The lemon was a nice touch, too.
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Reviewed: Nov. 18, 2004
I tried this recipe. I let it sit in the fridge for about 24 hours. Dough was sticky and I had to use alot of flour. I also do not like lemon so I left that out and doubled the vanilla. I baked them for 6 minutes and they came out nice and soft. Husband really loved them. Best sugar cookie I have had in a while. I did cutouts with them and the only problem I had was with the stickiness. I ended up with about 6 dozen.
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Reviewed: Oct. 12, 2004
Around the holidays my mother used to make Christmas sugar cookies for my brother and I. They were soooo good, I looked forward to helping her make them every year. My mother passed away several years ago, and last year I wanted find her recipe for these cookies. No one in the family knew it or had it, so I searched this site for it, I made 2-3 other sugar cookie recipes which did not come close to my moms, then I tried this one. I would say this is the closest if not the same as my mothers. I almost cried. The dough was a little hard to work with, I just used alot of flour, it was a small price to pay for the end result. I didn't have any lemon extract, and they tasted just fine. I am glad I didn't. Last year for Christmas I made and sent some for my brother who was still in the military...it was wonderful and brought back wonderful memories. Thank you Betz!!!!!
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Reviewed: Oct. 9, 2004
I love these cookies! So easy to make, and my husband says they taste just like his grandma's. I've made a few adjustments ... I've found that chilling the dough for only 1-2 hrs. makes it really easy to work with, and I only bake them for 5-6 mins. Also, if I don't have lemon extract on hand, I just omit it ... they still taste great. Thanks, Tricia!
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Reviewed: Sep. 29, 2004
This is a horrible recipe! The cookies tasted alrite (nothing great) but that's after the house nearly burnt down! These cookies DO NOT take 10 minutes, and hardly take 5! I burnt half of them! I had put the first batch in, and was starting to cut the others, when after abour 6 minutes, it started to smell and then my whole kitchen was filled with smoke! Im lucky the fire alarm didn't go off! I'll never make this recipe again, its not worth it. I even doubled the recipe and hardly got 4 dozen (let alone 6!)
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Reviewed: Sep. 13, 2004
How I wish I'd taken the time to check the reviews before I made this recipe. Today is "green" day at my daughter's kindergarten, so last night I made the dough, refrigerated it overnight, and got up early this morning to bake it into leaf shapes. When I peeked into the oven and saw the mess on my cookie sheets I wanted to cry. Too late to do them over; we'll have to stop at the grocery store and find something green there to take. Why oh why did I have to try something new rather than my own grandmother's cookie recipe which is perfectly fine? And why did I wait until the last minute? Ugh. Enough whining, but I'll be sure to always read reviews from now on!!!!
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Reviewed: Sep. 27, 2003
Dough too sweet. Cookies did not hold their shape. Dough difficult to handle. I used butter. Recipe definitely needs more flour, less sugar.
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Reviewed: Mar. 22, 2003
The cookies taste good. The dough is soft and difficult to roll out and apply a cookie cutter. Since I wanted to put icing on these cookies, I noticed that they did not keep any shape. So, I did not try.
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Reviewed: Mar. 8, 2003
I didn't care for this recipe at all, but I don't like the lemon flavor, so that was my disappointment. I didn't think the lemon flavor would be as strong as it was. Other than that they were fine.
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Reviewed: Feb. 15, 2003
This was a yummy cookie! The Lemon extract really made a difference. I made two batches, one with butter and one with margarine. I would highly recommend using margarine. Although the dough was more sticky,( I had to add a bit more flour) It cooked up nicely. THe batch made with butter started off less sticky and more firm, but when I cooked it , it spread out too much on the pan. They both tasted great, the butter batter being more crisp and delicate. I would definitely make these again, but will use margarine!
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Reviewed: Jan. 28, 2003
I've now tested this recipe twice. It definitely does need more flour for consistency. The taste is overall pleasant, not too sweet. As for some of the other comments about sticky dough, a little stickiness is not bad. I suggest refigerating for overnight before use. Refrigeration hardens the dough (and removes some of the stickiness). You don't want your dough to be non-sticky before refrigeration. That will mean you have too much flour in the batter. I also suggest that you refrigerate any cut cookies until ready for baking because as the dough gets warm, it becomes too pliable. Also, the more flour in the batter, the softer your cookie will be and the more floury the taste (not the idea - another reason not to over-flour it). I hope this helps someone.
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Reviewed: Dec. 30, 2002
Tasted wonderful - loved the lemon extract addition to normal sugar cookies!! Mine were spreading out/getting crispier than I wanted so I changed it up. I started making 1 inch balls, poking the top to make a divot, filled it with colored sprinkles and baked them. They came out fatter and chewier, but still looking very festive. They were a hit!!! I'll definitely make them again.
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Reviewed: Dec. 23, 2002
Yummy....made these at hubby's request. Been craving a lemon flavored sugar cookie like his grandma used to make. Came very close!! A keeper for a delicious cookie!!
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Reviewed: Dec. 22, 2002
Wonderful recipe! It was so easy and they tasted great! thanks so much!
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Reviewed: Dec. 18, 2002
There was no way to make cut out cookies from this. The dough was way too soft even after being refrigerated overnight. I finally rolled it into walnut sized balls and mashed it a little with a glass dipped in colored sugar. They were a VERY crisp cookie.
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Reviewed: Dec. 7, 2002
These are great, you can even slightly burn them (oops!) and they STILL taste good! OK, so they really need the time in the fridge because they're a bit messy to work with, but oh, so worth the trouble. Thank You.
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Reviewed: Nov. 5, 2002
I too failed to read the reviews and ended up with a very sticky dough. I had tripled the recipe to provide enough cookies for my 4 childrens classrooms. I had no choice but to work with it. I added lots more flour and worked with a small amount of dough at a time. I got rave reviews on them. I think I will make them again, but this time i will be prepared for the flour addition!
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Reviewed: Nov. 2, 2002
These cookies are WONDERFUL!! I would recommend this recipe to anyone looking for a light and not overly sweet sugar cookie. I read all the reviews before I made these cookies, and all of the negative reviews are ridiculous. So here's a little advice to those people: Everyone should know that a recipe is not set in stone, and never complete. Every recipe needs to be adjusted according to personal taste, and most importantly, elevation and humidity. When baking it is always necessary to pay attention to the amount of flour you're adding to things - and always add flour/dry indredients slowly, as more often than not, you will need add more or less than what is indicated on your recipe. To those who said this dough was gooey and hard to work with, you will probably need to stick to the pre-made dough in the refridgerated section of your grocery store. Because if you had ever worked with dough that would need to be rolled out, you would know that if the dough is gooey before you put it in to be refridgerated, it will still be gooey when it comes time to work with it. Use common sense and add more flour. If it is dry and crumbly, add a little milk and stop adding flour. Sugar cookie doughs are supposed to be soft, but shouldn't stick to your hands. This is one of the best sugar cookie recipes I've come across in a long time!
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