Anyone have a good cut out (sugar) cookie recipe?

Re: Anyone have a good cut out (sugar) cookie recipe?

• Mrs_Liberto member

  December 2008

  I just use the Betty Crocker one, but was it you who posted a frosted pumpkin cookie recipe last fall? My computer crashed and I lost the recipe.
  

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• cbbc

  December 2008

  No, I think that was Sandy? Do the Betty Crocker ones turn out soft, because I hate when cut out cookies are really hard. lol

  

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• nerdsbride

  December 2008

  This is all I have to say.  I never make them anymore because I hate when they poof up too much and lose shape.  This happens to me all the time.

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• Mrs_Liberto member

  December 2008

  Yeah, the trick with any cookies (for making them soft) is to make sure you use softened butter and cream it really really well, then add sugar, use room temp eggs and don't over mix the dry ingredients.

  Also, pulling them out of the oven slightly underbaked will help, too. Most of the time it's not the recipe, it's the temp of your oven or how long they bake that makes them too crispy.

  OH! And when you roll them out, try to use as little extra flour as possible-- it makes them dry and tough. 
  

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• cbbc

  December 2008

  Mrs_Liberto:

  Yeah, the trick with any cookies (for making them soft) is to make sure you use softened butter and cream it really really well, then add sugar, use room temp eggs and don't over mix the dry ingredients.

  Also, pulling them out of the oven slightly underbaked will help, too. Most of the time it's not the recipe, it's the temp of your oven or how long they bake that makes them too crispy.

  OH! And when you roll them out, try to use as little extra flour as possible-- it makes them dry and tough. 
  

  Great tips! Thank you!

  

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