| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 2 hr |
| Active: | 40 min |
| Yield: | 24 cookies |
Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened, plus more for greasing glass
- 1 cup canola or vegetable oil
- 1 cup granulated sugar, plus more for dipping
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 4 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Blue sanding sugar, for sprinkling (about 1/2 teaspoon per cookie)
- Purple sanding sugar, for sprinkling (about 1/2 teaspoon per cookie)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, oil, granulated sugar, powdered sugar, vanilla and eggs. Add the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt and mix well. Cover and refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.
- Using a cookie scoop, drop balls of dough onto ungreased, unlined baking sheets. Smear a dab of butter all over the bottom of a glass, then dip the glass in granulated sugar. Use the glass to flatten each ball of dough, dipping again into the sugar each time. Then sprinkle blue sanding sugar (about 1/2 teaspoon per cookie) over half of the cookies, and purple sanding sugar over the other half.
- Bake until the cookies are just barely turning brown, 9 to 11 minutes. Don’t overbrown! Allow to cool before eating. The cookies are ultra crumbly!
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 24 servings |
| Calories | 292 |
| Total Fat | 18 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Carbohydrates | 31 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Sugar | 15 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Cholesterol | 36 mg |
| Sodium | 139 mg |
Reviews
These are not typical sugar cookies. They are lighter and airy. Also soft and crumbly. I love that they are so different from traditional sugar cookies. Love changing up the color of sanding sugars that I use to fit different times of year or holidays. I also think these have a lovely flavor.
Not impressed … they spread like crazy. I could only get 6 or 7 on a large cookie sheet. Maybe some rainbow sprinkles for some visual interest.
I made them for my child school it was a hit with the family
Needs more flavor. I prefer a denser sugar cookie.
Great Easy cookie recipe big hit at Christmas Holidays or any time! Try red gold & green sugar for topping
These cookies don’t taste over sweet, they are just delicious. If I don’t have sanding sugar I have used regular sugar.
I love this sugar cookies. They are super simply and fun to do with kids. I make them every Christmas 🙂 and it’s always a hit
wonder if you could make these cookies and instead of pressing the dough out, you could roll the dough and make Christmas cookies
Amazing!! Taste just like my great-gramma’s!
So good