Here are some Christmas Cookie recipes that are always a big hit during the holidays.
Ethels Sugar Cookies
Mix thoroughly:
- 3/4 cup soft shortening (part butter)
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 tsp. flavoring (vanilla or lemon or a combination of the two)
Sift together and stir in:
- 2 1/2 cups sifted Gold Medal flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
Chill at least 1 hour. Roll out 1/8 thick. Cut into desired shapes. Place on ungreased baking sheet.
Sprinkle with sugar, if desired. Bake until delicately golden.
Temperature: 400 degrees (moderately hot oven)
Time: Bake 6 to 8 minutes.
Amount: About 4 dozen 3 cookies.
Lemon Sugar Cookies
Follow recipe above except, in place of flavoring, use 2 tsp. grated lemon rind and 1 tsp. lemon juice.
Filled Sugar Cookies
Follow recipe above except put together in pairs before baking with 1 tsp. Date, Fig, or Raisin Filling
or a solid chocolate mint wafer between. Press edges together with tines of fork.
Caraway Cookies
Follow recipe above except omit flavoring, sift ½ tsp. nutmeg with the dry ingredients, and mix 1 tsp.
caraway seeds into the dough.
Chocolate Pinwheels
Follow recipe above. Divide dough into 2 equal parts. Into 1 part, blend 2 sq. unsweetened chocolate (2 oz.),
melted and cooled. Chill. Roll out white dough 9 x 12. Roll out chocolate dough same size and lay on top of
white dough. Roll the double layer of dough gently until 3/16 thick. Roll up tightly, beginning at wide side,
into a roll 12 long and 2 in diameter. Chill. Slice 1/8 thick. Place slices a little apart on lightly
greased baking sheet. Bake.
Nut Sugar Cookies
Follow recipe above except mix into the dough 1 cup finely chopped nuts.
Old-Fashioned Soft Sugar Cookies
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups sifted enriched flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- p dairy sour cream
- Cinnamon-sugar
Cream butter to consistency of mayonnaise; add sugar gradually, while continuing to cream.
Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy.
Mix and sift flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture alternately with sour
cream, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. For 3-inch cookies drop by heaping teaspoons on
well-greased cookie sheets, well apart. With spatula flatten into circles about 2 inches in diameter.
For super-size, 5-inch cookies use Ό cup measure of batter for each cookie; flatten into circles about
4-inches in diameter. Sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar. Bake in hot oven, 400 degrees, 10 to 12 minutes.
Makes about thirty 3-inch cookies or eighteen 5-inch cookies.
Chocolate Sugar Cookies
Add 2 squares (2 oz.) unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled, to creamed mixture. Continue as above.
Raisin sugar cookies
Add 1 cup seedless raisins to creamed mixture. Continue as above.