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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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Reviewed: Oct. 29, 2002
I loved these cookies! The texture and flavor were as good as the local bakery's! Though I did find it required a little extra TLC and work, I have found this to be true of ALL rolled dough cookie batters. But unlike many of the others, I had no trouble whatsoever working the dough. I think the long lost secret may be that you need to stir in at least the last half of the flour by hand. An electric mixer overworks the dough so that you need to add lots of extra flour. Once I did this I just added a little extra at a time till the dough was like sticky playdough before refrigeration. Since I live in a tremendously humid climate I find I need to do this with virtually all cookie recipes, rolled or otherwise. I ended up with only about 3/4 cup extra flour being required, which is pretty normal for me. Great Recipe! I will definitely use it again.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 3.82 star rating.
Reviewed: Oct. 28, 2002
this is a really good reciepy! i made these cookies just an hour ago, and wow do they taste good! though i added some extra flour like one person here suggested, and i don't like that but it was just 1/4 of a cup so its not that bad. its still really good! my family likes it too, and i also added strawberry preserves to half of them and i highly suggest adding like jelly, jam or something like that to them, taste really good! so yeah GOOD COOKIES :)
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The reviewer gave this recipe 3 stars. This recipe averages a 3.82 star rating.
Reviewed: Oct. 12, 2002
The dough tasted great. I tmade nice cookies. BUT, it is only getting 3 stars becasue of all the trouble I had rolling the dough and using the cookie cutters. It definately NEEDS MORE FLOUR than what is called for. I would almost double the amount of flour. Can't say for sure becasue I kept adding more and more flour until the cutters worked well.
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Reviewed: Apr. 16, 2002
This is a great recipe, never fails to please my guests. I have substituted margarine for butter without a problem (they brown faster)Thanks to Gramma Betz!
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Reviewed: Mar. 12, 2002
Not very kid friendly because of the need for more flour than the recipe calls for. A little common sense and creativity helped me out with this one. Baked with a little grape jelly in the middle is as good as the frosting on top!!! Thanks!!
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Reviewed: Feb. 13, 2002
These were good, but I had to put a LOT more flour into it before I was able to do anything remotely close to rolling it out. The dough is very soft and you need to heavily dust your rolling surface with flour or the dough will stick every time. But the cookies come out very nicely after those alterations.
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Reviewed: Feb. 9, 2002
great sugar cookies. i think we ate more dough than cookies. try adding mini m&m's, its great.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 2 stars. This recipe averages a 3.82 star rating.
Reviewed: Dec. 20, 2001
This sugar cookie dough is not the worst I've worked with despite many of the poor reviews. I made it up 2 days before I was going to use it and put it in a covered bowl in the fridge. The dough is very, very soft and hard to work with. I simply used a lot of flour on the cutting board, grabbed a hand full of dough, and kneaded some extra into each handful. I did not use a rolling pin, but flattened it with my hands. Use plenty of spare flour and your cookies will come out fine. Also, use a simple outline cutter, not one with a lot of detail. The dough WILL stick to each part. A seasoned baker will have no problem with this dough. Sugar cookies from scratch are NOT easy to make. Also, you may want to ice these or put on some sprinkles.
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Reviewed: Dec. 15, 2001
wow! the dough was incredible, tasting that is. Other than that these cookies were awful. The dough was extremely gooey and when you cut them out to cook they ended up looking like a potato chip rather than a cookie.
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Reviewed: Dec. 4, 2001
Had I read the reviews, I would've avoided this recipe. Since I was foolish enough not to read others' opinions, I now have my own. :c( This recipe turned into a total flop. The only good thing I can say is that the cookies that *did* get into the oven tasted great. But the dough was a nightmare to deal with. It was gooey, and stuck terribly to the counter even though I had HEAVILY floured it. THEN, after rolling the gooey dough into balls and rolling in sugar (trying to salvage it), I baked them on an UNgreased cookie sheet, per the directions. They STUCK to the sheets! Ugh! I was SO mad at this point! Plus, I was idiotic enough to QUADRUPLE the recipe. Sooo, I have a LOT of very gooey, nearly useless dough. My fault for ignoring the reviews. I'll not use this one again!
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Reviewed: Oct. 26, 2001
The cookie recipe itself was tasty, but not easy to handle even after chilling overnight. My kids were excited to make shaped cookies, but couldn't because it stuck to rolling pin and was messy. In the end, we had to roll into balls and it became a big glob cookie.
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Reviewed: Jan. 2, 2001
This was a pretty simple recipe, but as far as cutout cookies go they really get big. I had a really hard time trying to figure out the perfect thickness so that they would hold their form. For me that seemed to be at about 1/4 inch.
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Reviewed: Dec. 20, 2000
the cookies ended up being great, but when i frist took the dough out of the refrigerator in the morning, it was a gooey mess. i had to add about 2/3 cup flour to it to make it usable, plus there was a lot on the cutting board. if you're up for the hassle, these cookies taste great.
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Reviewed: Nov. 24, 2000
Every time I make this cookies, I get rave revues!
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Reviewed: Oct. 6, 2000
We were were really looking for a good sugar cookie recipe and we found this one. It appealed to us because it was so old. We mixed the ingredients and got the oven ready. Then we noticed that the dough had to chill. We were very hungry and didn't feel much like waiting so we dipped our fingers into the dough and WOW! The dough is great! Of course, we had to cook one batch just to see, and they were pretty good, but we like it much more as dough. We ended up turning the oven off and serving the dough to our friends. It was a hit! Thanks, Betz! Signed, Cookie Dough Lovers
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Reviewed: Aug. 15, 2000
Wow. What a flop. We followed the directions 100%. After chilling the dough, we went to roll out the dough... it was a gooey mess that could not be rolled. We couldn't even form them into little balls.... We just ended up trying to make somewhat organized piles of the dough and cooked it. Well, I should go clean off my rolling pin....
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Reviewed: Feb. 26, 2000
I lost my favourite sugar cookie recipe and needed a new one fast. This one was easy to prepare and they turned out every nice. I recieved many compliments. Thanks for saving the day!
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