grandma vera's sugar cookies
Ingredients
- For the dough:
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 4 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- For the frosting:
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 stick butter
- Whipping cream you gotta eyeball it, not too much so it becomes runny
- Vanilla to taste
Instructions
- Cream together the sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and whipping cream.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda, baking power, salt and nutmeg (I have also just combined these in a bowl without sifting and the cookies turn out just fine).
- Gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed sugar and butter mixture (a stand mixer helps!)
- Wrap dough in aluminum foil and refrigerate overnight (if you can't refrigerate overnight, that's ok! Give it at least 2 hours in the fridge)
- Roll dough out until thin. Use lots of flour as the dough can be sticky (I usually make a huge mess!). Use your favorite shapes to cut out cookies, and place on cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
- While the cookies are baking I usually make the frosting.
- Beat ingredients together. Slowly add whipping cream until you get a creamy, thick consistency (you don’t want the frosting to be too runny). Add the vanilla last; I usually taste until I get a good flavor.
- Then separate the frosting into different bowls, and add food coloring (we’ve had blue, yellow and even purple cookies before).
- Frost cookies once they are cool.
