Best Sugar Cookie Recipe

By á-11135

These sugar cookies are simply the best. This classic cookie will be a crowd pleaser at and celebration.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (room temperature)
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons water
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cream of tarter
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 5 1/2 cups flour
• Sour Cream Frosting
• 1/2 cup room temperature butter
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 1 (2 pound) package of powdered sugar (I never use the whole thing but love having extra on hand just incase I add to much milk!)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup milk
• Red food coloring

Details

Servings 18
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 40mins

Preparation

Step 1

Cream together butter, vegetable oil, sugars, water and eggs.

Combine dry ingredients and slowly add to butter mixture.

Mix until everything is combined. Your dough should be a little crumbly and not sticky at all.

Roll a golf ball sized ball of dough and place it on your cookie sheet

Now its time to give these babies their signature rough edge. Put 1/4 cup of sugar and a pinch of salt in a dish. Stick the bottom of a glass in it. This is going to be your cookie press.

Firmly press it into the center of your dough ball. You want your dough to spill out over the sides of the glass. If there is a lip its even better.

Bake at 350°F for 8 minutes. They should just barely be browning on the bottom. Move cookies to a cooling rack. Once they are cool put them in the fridge.

Frosting:

Start by creaming together butter and sour cream and salt. Slowly add powdered sugar. When it gets so thick add a splash of milk. Alternate this process until your frosting is the desired consistency. Add 1 drop of red food coloring and whip on high for 1 minute.

Keep cookies in a sealed container until they are ready to serve. The magic of a Swig Sugar Cookie is that the cookies are cold and the frosting is room temperature. Frost right before serving (if you make them in advance and need to refrigerate the frosting make sure you give it time to warm up before serving)