These tender cookies, which resemble cakes, are best with frosting. To bake them for no longer than 8 minutes, roll them out thickly. Everyone adores them, and they will continue to be soft. They serve as holiday cutouts for me.
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen |
Ingredients
- 1 cup margarine
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Cream together the margarine, sugar and eggs. Stir in vanilla, flour, baking soda and salt.
- Roll out (not too thin) and cut into any shape. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 8 minutes.
- I have used confectioner sugar frosting, or buttercream frosting, or even canned frosting ( if I’m desperate). Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 326 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 41 g |
| Cholesterol | 31 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 434 mg |
| Sugars | 17 g |
| Fat | 16 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Soft warm and delightful, I made this for some guests that were staying with me and it was DELICIOUS ( I used butter instead of margarine )
The only ting I change was the salt i put just 1/2 off tsp nothing else looks and tested delicious for sure thank you for the recipe.
Just the recipe I’ve been looking for! I have made this recipe twice and the cookies were gone in a day. The only changes were decreasing the salt to 1/2 tsp as I added peanuts to the second batch and peanut m & m’s to the first batch. Love that this is not a sweet recipe and a good base for a lot of variations. I also made walnut size balls then flattening them slightly instead of cutting them out. This is my new go to recipe!
It was good a bit to much flour might of been my fault though
I used a scoop instead of spreading it out and it baked in a lot of interesting shapes
it was very good
These cookies were far too salty, and not sweet enough to be cookies. I should have been suspicious when the dough smelled like play dough. The texture was soft, but even with icing and sprinkles, we didn’t eat them. They tasted like salty scones. Cut the salt to 1/4 tsp and add extra sugar if you’re going to make them.
I thought it was too salty but, otherwise it is good!
THESE ARE AMAZING! They are super soft and not too sweet. Absolutely perfect. I used butter instead of margarine, however, I only had 1 stick (you need 2 to make 1 cup), so I decided to half the recipe. But I totally blanked when adding the eggs and added in the normal amount (2) even though everything else was reduced by half. I also didn’t have an electric mixer so I used a blender to cream the butter, eggs and sugar. The cookies turned out perfectly. I sifted some powdered sugar on top after they were cool and they are just delicious and fluffy.
Fabulous vanilla flavor. I made batches and served with hazelnut and other sauces for dipping.
Amazing. I did it GF for my ceolic daughter. Big hit at her birthday party
I added 3/4 cup softened butter instead of margarine. very nice
Recipe was easy and worked out perfectly my family wanted more.
Delicious! I used butter instead of margarine and they still turned out great!
I didn’t have any frosting so sprinkled some coarse-grain sugar on top before baking, it worked pretty well.
Very good cookies, but they took me more than 8 minutes to bake. They took me about 15 minutes because at 8 minutes they we’re still raw.
They turned out great! They taste great too! Really easy recipe, had to bake them for 13 minutes though.
Absolutly amazing! One of my Faveourites, found it took longer than 8minutes but it was worth the wait!!!
when I made them they were very sticky. Don’t make these if you don’t have frosting because they are very plain. 😛
Followed the recipe and the dough was sticky and you could not roll it out to cut out shapes.
This recipe is bloody awful. I made exactly as stated here and they tasted like just plain dough. They weren’t sweet at all. I (accidentally) put a few drops extra of vanilla and you still couldn’t taste it. I baked one batch and threw the rest away. On the plus side the dogs liked them. Dogs will eat anything. I saved what I baked as dog treats. Can’t tell you how disappointing it was, I looked forward to these for a week or so before trying it out.