Recipe: Delicious Crisco Sugar Cookies

Crisco Sugar Cookies. Fresh baked, hand-made, individually decorated real American cookies. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. DIRECTIONS BEAT shortening and sugar in large bowl with mixer on medium speed until smooth and creamy.

Beat in egg, milk, vanilla and orange peel, if desired. STIR flour, baking soda and salt in medium bowl until blended. Beat into creamed mixture until dough forms. You can have Crisco Sugar Cookies using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Crisco Sugar Cookies

1. Prepare 1 cup of Butter Flavored Crisco (or half shortening and half butter).
2. It's 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar.
3. It's 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
4. It's 3 of eggs.
5. Prepare 2 tablespoons of milk.
6. Prepare 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
7. You need 4-5 cups of all-purpose flour.
8. It's 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda.
9. You need 1 1/2 teaspoons of cream of tarter.
10. It's 1 teaspoon of salt.

Stir flour, Clabber Girl® Baking Powder and salt in medium bowl until blended. ADD egg, milk and vanilla; beat until blended. Crisco cookies aren't as common now as perhaps they were in my great grandmother's generation, but they're absolutely, hands down, the most perfect sugar cookie I've had. They're soft, tender, and perfectly sweet.

Crisco Sugar Cookies step by step

1. Cream the shortening and sugars together..
2. Beat eggs in one at a time..
3. Add milk and vanilla..
4. Combine flour, baking soda, cream of tarter, and salt in a separate bowl..
5. Mix with creamed mixture into one until well blended. A dough should form..
6. Cover and chill for at least an hour (preferably overnight.) If you want a drop cookie, just skip this step..
7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit..
8. Separate dough into two balls..
9. Roll one ball out to about 1/4 inch thickness on parchment paper or a lightly floured surface..
10. Cut the cookies to desired shapes. Place on ungreased baking sheet..
11. Decorate cookies with colored sugar, candy, or a simple cinnamon/sugar mix..
12. Bake for 5-6 minutes or until edges of cookies are golden..
13. Set out to cool. Once cool you can ice non-decorated cookies..

Blend Crisco, sugar, egg and extract. Add combined dry ingredients alternately with milk. You may roll and cut in shapes or may drop off spoon. Sprinkle with granulated sugar or colored sugar crystals, or leave plain to frost or decorate when cooled. Cookies: Combine shortening, granulated sugar and brown sugar; beat at medium speed until well blended.