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 butter, softened
- 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
Reviews
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!
Really enjoyed this recipe, super easy to make and as per the other comments it's easy to add in additional flavours. I broke it into 3 batches, 1st as per the recipe, 2nd with coconut through them and 3rd batch had almonds and raisins. All delicious, great recipe to play about with. Thanks.
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I haven't actually made these yet, but wanted to answer Jersey's question from June 4, 2019. I realize it's too late to help for that date, but if anyone else ever gets caught without cream of tartar, you should know that baking powder (which most bakers are likely to have on hand) consists of 2 parts cream of tartar and 1 part baking soda. So, for this recipe, you could use 1-1/2 teaspoons of baking powder PLUS 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.
Very soft and VERY bland. The taste is floury with not much else. I added chocolate fudge frosting to try to help them out. Will not use again and will go back to my stand by sugar cookie recipe.
Made per the recipe - no substitutions. Loved these! Slightly crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. Used a small melon-baller-scoop thingy and it made well over 6 dozen. Will make again!
These are so easy and my kids ate them as they came out of the oven should have doubled the recipe
Can you use coconut oil or olive oil in place of vegetable oil?
I rated 5 stars after reading other reviews. I would love to make these today, it's nice and cool for the oven, but I don't have cream of tartar and can't get to a store. Will anything else work?