Tender Sugar Cookies Recipe

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Want to simplify your sugar cookies? Roll this buttery dough from our Test Kitchen into balls and dip them into colored sugar before baking.

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Tender Sugar Cookies Recipe

Prep: 30 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch

Yield: 66 Servings

30 10 40

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter-flavored shortening
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup buttermilk
Colored sugar and/or coarse sugar

Directions

In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extracts. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
Roll into 1-in. balls; dip tops in sugar. Place 2 in. apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 9-11 minutes or until lightly browned and tops are cracked. Remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: 5-1/2 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie equals 61 calories, 2 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 6 mg cholesterol, 47 mg sodium, 9 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1/2 starch, 1/2 fat.

Originally published as Tender Sugar Cookies in Country Woman Christmas Annual 2011, p61