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Image of old fashioned sugar cookies on a baking sheet, lightly brown, fresh from the oven

OLD FASHIONED SUGAR COOKIES

Cook Time 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 50 cookies

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cream of tartar
  • 4 cups flour

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375F.
  • Thoroughly cream butter, oil, and sugars.
  • Add vanilla & eggs, then sifted dry ingredients and blend well.
  • Use a cookie scoop or use your hands to roll about a tablespoon-sized ball of dough and place onto a cookie sheet. Use a cookie press or bottom of a glass dipped in sugar to press cookie onto sheet.
  • Bake about 12 minutes, a minute more if you likely crunchier cookies, a minute less if you want a little chewier cookie.
Keyword cookies, sugar cookies