Sugar cookies!

Do you like sugar cookies?  soft ones?  Oh boy, I sure do.  I have spent years looking for the perfect sugar cookie.  When my children were little, we would make them and they would LOVE to decorate them.  they loved them.  they tasted good, but, not soft.  I LOVE soft cookies!!! 

I want to make an announcement.....  I HAVE FOUND THE PERFECT SUGAR COOKIE RECIPE!!!!!!  My children, and my grands will thank me forever! 

this recipe is easy, pretty quick to put together AND no putting it in the refrigerator before you roll it out. 

I found the recipe at its always autumn blog.  she has some really good hints.  you need to check it out. 

In her recipe there was no vanilla!  yikes, I have to have vanilla in my recipe and a secret ingredient! 

So please go over to It's always autumn to read up on the hints. 

The BEST sugar cookie, ever!

2 cups sugar                                     5 tablespoons baking powder
1 cup butter, softened                     1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs                                              1/2 teaspoon nutmeg (secret ingredient, shhhh)
6 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cream together sugar, butter, eggs milk and vanilla.  Stir all dry ingredients well.  Add dry ingredients to the liquid, mix until just blended. DO NOT OVER MIX! 

Liberally flour the work surface and rolling pin.  Keep some extra flour close by.  if anything sticks, add a little bit of flour.  Roll out 3/8" thick.  use your favorite cookie cutters and cut out your cookies. 

Bake for 9 - 12 minutes.  for my oven at home it was 10 minutes.  for my son's home it was 9 minutes.  DO NOT let the cookies get brown.  let them cool completely on a wire rack.  Frost with your favorite icing.  They store well......

Now you are probably wondering, how in the heck do you measure 3/8" of an inch?  Well, I will tell you....

These little rubber rings are wonderful!  They keep your dough even.  the rings fit on either end of the rolling pin.  where have these been all my life?  I love them.  I brought a set up for Elena.  it was about $8.  I bought them ABC cake Decorating supply.  It was my first time there.  OH. MY. GOSH! 

 

look at all those cookie cutters!  from 1" to 12" and bigger.  I bought several for the grands.  fun, fun, fun! 

 

   

 

 

enjoy, hugs.....

 

Hmmmmmm, Oatmeal cookies!

Hi everyone!  do you like fresh, homemade, warm oatmeal cookies?  Oh yeah!

The other day Melissa brought her boys over uber early in the morning for me to take to school.  she had to be at work at 6 AM, and Glen had to go out of town at 4 AM.  So at 5AM, here comes the grands! 

Gunner was asleep on the couch, Andrew on one of the recliners and Hudson in my arms in the other recliner.  It didn't take us long to go back to sleep.  At 7:15 Bruce woke us up.  While I helped the boys get dressed, Bruce made scrambled eggs.  They wolfed those eggs down, especially Hudson.  2 fisted eating! 

Anyway, as we were talking, Gunner wanted to know if I knew how to make cookies.  I knew they were coming back over after school, so I said yes, we could make them when they came back.  I asked, Doesn't mommy make cookies?  No, she doesn't know how!!!  Oh Gunner!  Melissa is a good cookie maker.  She works full time, so cookies don't always get made. 

Anyway, they all came back after school and we proceeded to make cookies, or rather grandma did, and Mom (Melissa) helped a lot, LOL....... 

We decided on Sister Cunningham's Favorite Cookies in the Whole World!  Many years ago, while living in CA., the sister missionaries came often, and usually brought us these cookies.  I begged for the recipe.  Sister Cunningham had the recipe memorized.  She shared with me, and I will share with you! 

The dough

 

 

Getting ready to bake

 

 

 

This recipe make about 9 dozen cookies!

 

 



 

and the eating!

 

 

Sister Cunningham's Favorite Cookies in the Whole Wide World!

 

2 cups softened butter

2 cups sugar

2 cups brown sugar

4 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

4 cups flour

5 coups oatmeal

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoon baking powder

1 bag milk chocolate chips (I usually use Ghirardelli's but this time used mini chocolate chips)

 

Cream butter and sugars.  Add eggs.  Mix, then add vanilla, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and flour.  Then add chocolate chips.  Drop by spoonfuls to an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees for 9 - 12 minutes.  DO NOT over bake.  The less you bake , the softer they are.  Store in airtight container. 

 

Enjoy.....

 

hugs