The vegetarian filled potatoes make a delicious side dish for any dinner. Or just give them to them on their own! These are fantastic if you like potatoes.
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 4 dozen |
Ingredients
- ⅔ cup butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs.
- Dissolve the baking soda in the milk, then add to mixture. Add the vanilla and mix well
- Place salt in with flour and slowly stir into mixture. The dough should not be too sticky and should pull away from the sides of the bowl easily. If the dough is sticky, add a little more flour.
- Form the dough into a roll about a foot long and 2-3 inches in diameter. Roll up in wax paper and put in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Remove from refrigerator and let dough come to room temperature. Roll out dough a chunk at a time (one dough log makes about 4 chunks).
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
- Cut your cookies and decorate or bake plain for 8-10 minutes. Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 161 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 24 g |
| Cholesterol | 29 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 120 mg |
| Sugars | 9 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
As many of the reviewers said, the dough was fantastic to work with. I gave it 4 stars because I thought the cookie a bit dry. Will definitely try again and maybe bake for a shorter time. BTW, I did like the fact also that it was not a too sweet dough so you can feel free to plop on the frosting.
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I make this every year for Yule with my daughter (she’s 8 now) The dough is easy to work with and the not-too-sweet aspect is perfect for kid frosting. You know -I’m going to put 3 colors of icing and every sprinkle in the house on this ONE cookie because sugar. This year I used almond extract instead of vanilla which really boosted the flavor of the plain cookie.
I didn’t like this recipe. The cookies weren’t sweet and they were tasteless. Also they were too chewy and very soft. But they were very easy to make which i like.
To me, this was the perfect cookie dough for making cut out cookies for Christmas. This is not meant to be a true sugar cookie recipe. It was very easy to work with and the powdered sugar frosting gave the cookies the perfect sweetness. This recipe matches my mother’s recipe that I had unfortunately lost, so I am thrilled to have found this one to hopefully pass on down to my kids.
These however are perfect not too sweet and you can add decorations without feeling guilty about giving your kids one for a treat.
Minimal spreading, fantastic and not too sweet. Although I did chill them one last time after cutting before baking, just in case.
Easy to make, taste delicious! I like that they don’t taste overly sugary.
I made this recipe for a large group and I am so glad that I doubled the amount because they dissapeared! The cookies were perfect, not too sweet and are great with frosting as well! I wouldn’t change anything about this recipe!!
Love this recipe! It was easy to make, easy to manage the dough and the cookies are full of flavor without being disgustingly sweet. The frosting makes them plenty sweet. This is a keeper for years to come!
I get what everybody’s saying about these not being sweet enough, because… well they aren’t sweet enough. Not to the point where you think you’re eating flour, but just not as sweet as most sugar cookies I’ve made before.. But still really fantastic! This is exactly the kind of sugar cookie recipe I was looking for. I was making Halloween sugar cookies to put onto my son’s birthday cake to decorate it, and I was going to put frosting on them anyway. These are great with frosting, and the dough is incredibly easy to work with. I usually don’t make cut out cookies because I hate having to roll out the dough and deal with that whole mess but this recipe didn’t give me any problem at all. I’ll definitely be making these again. Thanks!
Super easy recipe and very easy dough to work with! I had never made cut out cookies from scratch when I found this recipe, and I couldn’t ask for a better cookie. I have 4 stars because as stated, they aren’t very sweet on their own. I use Delilah’s frosting recipe from Delia’s Frosted Cut Out Cookies and they are always a hit! Thank you!
love that they are not too sweet or buttery. they only need a few minutes to cook and then will crisp up just a tad after baking. Best cutout cookie recipe I’ve used! I will also use this for a pie crust for cold pies. Cutout cookies are not the kind to use whole wheat flour in the recipe but I do use it when rolling them out, every little bit helps!
I made these for valentine heart cut outs. This was the easiest cut out cookie I ever made. They were a little bland prior to frosting – but I have a little one that does not like sweet & he loved them. I have 2 older children that love sweet & they passed on them until frosted. I will try the Royal 1 frosting as suggested & can not wait for the finish results!
Very easy dough to work with, cut perfectly and baked beautifully. Unfortunately, they tasted like corn bread without the corn. Bland and dry. I couldn’t eat them, let alone offer them to anybody else. Very dissappointing.
I made these cookies with the grandkids and they were the simplest and tastiest cutout cookies ever. The dough was so easy to work with. This will become a traditional Christmas treat.
This cookie is the PERFECT COOKIE FOR CUT-OUTS!!!! I’ve been looking for a replacement recipe for my favorite one I lost years ago during a move, and each new one I try, I end up disappointed – UNTIL TODAY!!!!! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! It’s not sweet. It’s not crunchy (I suppose you could make it crunchy if you wanted to :). It’s not fussy, messy or ‘over the top’. It’s tasty enough to eat undecorated at all….and not so tasty that icing &/or colored sugar etc…make it ‘to much’. PERFECT.
Like others have said, the cookies themselves are a bit bland but that is PERFECT if you are going to ice them. If you want to eat plain cookies, these are not for you.
this is a great recipe!! i made it xactly as it called for, only i did need alittle more flour at the end. everyone raved about them and this is a definite keeper! i got 6 rolls out of a single batch! LOVED ‘Em!!!
This recipe is GREAT!! Thank you so much for sharing. I’ve been looking for a good recipe for my decorated cookies with no luck, until today. They are not really sweet which is perfect for the Royal icing to go on top. Again Thank you!!!!
Super easy to work with, soft, and taste yum! Thanks so much for sharing!