Amish Sugar Cookies
These easy-to-make, old-fashioned sugar cookies simply melt in your mouth! This is one of the best Amish cookie recipes I've ever had. I've passed this one around to many friends, and after I gave it to my sister, she entered the cookies in a local fair and won the best of show prize! —Sylvia Ford, Kennett, Missouri
Ingredients
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 cup butter, softened
Reviews
I sometimes break the dough into 3 parts and use food coloring to make “tie-dyed” cookies, putting some of the 3 colors into each cookie. If I really want to get fancy, I dip them in large-granule sugar before baking.
My go recipie for sugar cookies. Always tender and tasty. Like other reviewers I add a teaspoon of salt to bring out flavors. The flavorings I use are 1 teaspoon vanilla and 2 teaspoons LoriAnn Princess Cake and Cookie flavoring. Everyone always raves about the taste of these cookies. The Princess flavoring is unique and suited for sugar cookies.
I’ve used the same recipe for years. This one is missing 1tsp. Salt. That is why some say they are bland. I also use 1 1/2 tsp. Vanilla. I roll them in balls and press down with a glass dipped in sugar.
Add 1/2 teaspoon of almond extract and they are so good. Sometimes I drop the cookie in granulated sugar then bake. I also do a Christmas version by adding the half teaspoon of almond extract and a little oral or 1/4 of a teaspoon of peppermint extract then drop the cookie in candy canes bits before baking.
Excellent cookie. Very good with a little powder sugar glaze.
good recipie...i added crushed walnuts, really good!
Not much flavor even added pumpkin spice. Texture is not very good either tried less time. Won't make again.
I made these for my son’s high school graduation party. I can’t tell you how many people asked me who made them (as in a bakery) and then subsequently asked me for the recipe. I’m not a big sugar cookie fan but these are awesome. So easy to decorate too.
Love this recipe- I bring them to work and they are always a huge hit. I do add 1/2 tsp of salt. I make a variation of this cookie buy adding candied pecans and topping the cookie with a whole candied pecan half. Yum!
I love these cookies, my personal favorite. Make a glaze or a frosting and it sends them over the top!