Amish Sugar Cookies

Name: Amish Sugar Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: about 5 dozen.
Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened; 1 cup vegetable oil; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup confectioners' sugar; 2 large Nellie’s Free Range Eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 4-1/2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon cream of tartar

These easy-to-make cookies simply melt in your mouth! I've passed the recipe around to many friends. 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 Nellie’s Free Range Eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar

Directions

In a large bowl, beat the butter, oil and sugars. Beat in eggs until well blended. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and cream of tartar; gradually add to creamed mixture.
Drop by small teaspoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° until lightly browned, 8-10 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Test Kitchen Tips

Salted butter and a splash of extract (try almond!) make these extra flavorful.

If you like your treats on the sweeter end of the spectrum, add a pinch of coarse sugar to the tops of these light and airy cookies.

Why cream of tartar? Baking soda needs an acidic ingredient to create the gas bubbles that make baked goods rise and lighten. Cream of tartar (aka tartaric acid) provides that in this recipe. Yay, chemistry!

Nutrition Facts

1 cookie: 117 calories, 7g fat (2g saturated fat), 14mg cholesterol, 48mg sodium, 13g carbohydrate (5g sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein.

Originally published as Amish Sugar Cookies in Country Extra July 1990

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Wabby

Jul 12, 2018

Wait, whoops, I actually made 102 sugar cookies, not 192 cookies! My darn math skills are bad.
Troy

May 20, 2018

Best sugar cookies I've ever had! I'm not a fan of sugar cookies. They're always just ok. I chose this recipe to make with my daughter as I had all the ingredients. We cut it in half (unfortunately) and created both a lemon sugar zest and a grapefruit sugar zest (idea from another reviewer) Absolutely incredible. The grapefruit is my favorite and we will be making a double batch next weekend. Thank you for your delicious recipe
Megan

May 14, 2018

Becky...... Find a hobby... enjoy life......eat cookies.....Maybe you will find some happiness instead of being bitter about everything
kathidahl

May 5, 2018

I will make these again but will bake for a shorter time so they are a bit more moist. I appreciate that they are not cloyingly sweet. By end of the batch I learned that I liked using a larger scoop and flattening slight before topping with sprinkles or colored sugar. Very tender cookie. I will freeze some too and I think they will freeze well.
Judy

May 2, 2018

These were the best sugar cookies ever! I froze most for later, like I do with most other cookie recipes. That way you have a few today and a few in a month or two. We didn't frost ours, but I will consider it, as I also keep premade frosting in small containers in the freezer. Homemade is always the best. We've become a world of buying flavorless junk in the stores, instead of making a better item.
suwilson

Apr 28, 2018

Amazing cookies - easy to make, not too sweet, just right!
cookie20

Apr 26, 2018

Excellent cookies. To reviewer Brian: then don't make them OR EAT them! Move on to something else instead of carping about the recipe. Have some celery sticks for a "treat".
Teddy

Apr 26, 2018

When I saw how much flour was in the cookies I decided to make 1/2 batch. I also added lemon zest (one whole lemon) and 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice. I moved the oven rack up one notch and baked for nine minutes. I used a mini ice cream scoop type of spoon to make them even sizes. They turned out soft, fluffy and full of flavor. I frosted them (powdered sugar/butter/vanilla/milk mixture). Added sprinkles for fun look. Yield was 56 cookies. These are excellent.
Kathy

Apr 14, 2018

Just put first tray in oven. Sure smell good. Vety simple to make. Husband couldn't wait for them to cool to try. They were good! Will make them again plus put my own twist on them.
Brian

Apr 13, 2018

These are no doubt very good. The entire recipe has 6,714 calories in it. Add the the frosting that some people mention and that piles on an additional 3,616 calories for a total of 10,330.

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