Saturday, November 22, 2014

Soft Sugar Cookies

Ingredients
 1 cup butter at room temp
3/4 cup vegetable oil
11/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup pwd sugar
2 Tbl water
2 eggs
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 tsp cream of tarter
1tsp salt
5 1/2 cups flour

Cream together butter, oil, sugars, water and eggs.
Combine dry ingredients and slowly add to utter mixture. Roll a golf sized ball of dough and place on parchment lined cookie sheet.  Put 1/4 cup of sugar in a small dish. This is additional sugar.  Stick the bottom of a glass in sugar and then press down on a dough ball.  Let dough spill out beyond glass.  Continue with earh ball of dough.  Dipping in sugar earth time.  Bake at 350 for 8 min.  When cookies are cool store in frig.  

Sour Cream Frosting
1/2 cup butter at room temp
3/4 cup sour cream
Pwd sugar. I opened a 2lb bag but didn't use all of it
1tsp salt
1/4 cup milk

Cream butter, sour cream and salt. Slowly add pwd sugar.  Add milk and 1drop of red food coloring. 
Swig cookies are served cold and frosted just before serving with room temp icing