| Sugar cookies are versatile, easy to make and are | | | | delightfully crumby. However, if the recipe uses |
| perhaps the most popular cookie on the planet! The | | | | vegetable shortening with the butter, you can expect a |
| first sugar cookie recipe can be traced back to the | | | | crisp, yet chewy cookie instead. Your Recipe Options |
| mid 18th century and has gone through a number of | | | | Practically everyone has had a sugar cookie in some |
| transformations over the years. The Ingredients Make | | | | form or another. Therefore, by deciding the type of |
| The Difference You would think that one recipe is | | | | sugar cookie you want, you could greatly reduce the |
| rather close in ingredients and preparation to another. | | | | number of recipes you may weed through in finding |
| However, nothing could be farther from the truth and is | | | | just the right one. For instance, there are sugar cookie |
| the reason why many people stick with their "tried and | | | | recipes for: * Cut-outs * Drop cookies * Refrigerator |
| true" cookie recipe that was handed down from | | | | cookies * Cookies from a mold or press A drop sugar |
| grandma. It can be quite mind-boggling sifting through | | | | cookie recipe is rather quick and easy with you just |
| hundreds of recipes for sugar cookies on the internet | | | | "dropping" the dough by spoonfuls on a baking sheet. |
| or even through your cookbooks. The primary | | | | A refrigerator cookie involves you refrigerating the |
| ingredient, sugar, is not cut and dried when it comes to | | | | dough, sometimes rolling it into a log shape so that it is |
| a sugar cookie recipe. You could use the regular | | | | easy to cut slices for baking. Cookie cutouts involve |
| granulated white sugar; however there are super fine | | | | rolling out the dough onto a floured cutting board and |
| granulated organic sugar versions that could be | | | | using cookie cutters to make shapes. With a press or |
| incorporated into a recipe and even brown sugar, a | | | | mold, the dough is conformed into a certain shape. The |
| southern favorite. The flavoring extract often used in a | | | | bottom line is that each recipe will produce a slightly |
| sugar cookie recipe is vanilla, but you could substitute it | | | | different cookie. The only thing that should always stay |
| for almond extract or even butter extract for a totally | | | | the same is how you bake it. Always use a baking |
| new taste. Even the binding part (the ingredients that | | | | sheet with a sheet of parchment paper covering it as |
| make the flour and sugar stick together) of any cookie | | | | this not only keeps cookies from sticking, but you will |
| recipe can be vastly different. Some recipes use lard | | | | rarely have a problem with burning your cookies. Sugar |
| while other recipes use vegetable shortening, butter or | | | | cookies are truly one of the best. They also come |
| a combination of all of them. Butter is typically used | | | | with more recipe options that you might have first |
| with most recipes to give the cookie a nice flavor. If | | | | imagined. Use the guidelines above to find the sugar |
| the sugar cookie recipe calls for lard in addition to the | | | | cookie recipe that is right for you. |
| butter, you can expect the cookie to be crisp and | | | | |