Frosted Sugar Cookie Recipe – Grandma’s Recipe
It wouldn’t be a holiday if I didn’t bring out the old-fashion cookie cutters and make my favorite frosted sugar cookies.
Every holiday at my house is celebrated with an array of yummy sugar cookies decorated for the season. Whether it is Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas or Valentine’s Day my grandchildren know the cookie jar will be filled with these colorful treats.
My grandmother passed this recipe down to my mother and the only change we’ve made to it over the years was to use the addition of the Butter Flavored Crisco. Grandma made hers with real butter, which you can too, but I’ve found they stay softer with the Butter Flavored Crisco. My grandma’s kitchen always smelled like sugar and almond and every time I make these cookies I’m taken back to the comfort of her cozy kitchen.
I hope this recipe will become a family tradition at your house as it is at mine. Enjoy!
- Cookie
- 1 cup Butter Flavored Crisco
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 3 1/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Frosting
- 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
- 1-2 tablespoon milk
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- Food coloring of your choice
- Cookies
- In a large bowl sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl cream together Butter Flavored Crisco with sugar, eggs and almond extract until light and fluffy.
- Gradually stir in flour mixture into to creamed butter until well blended.
- Separate dough into to small balls and wrap with plastic wrap. Chill for two hours.
- Set oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- On a lightly floured surface roll each dough ball out until 1/4 inch thick. Cut into desired shapes and place on lined cookie sheets.
- Bake 5 - 7 minutes or until edges start to turn a light brown.
- Remove cookies and cool on wire rack.
- Frosting
- In a small bowl combine confectioners' sugar with 1 tablespoon of milk. You may need to add more milk until it is at a spreading consistency.
- Beat in corn syrup and almond extract until frosting is smooth and glossy. If the frosting is to thick add a little bit more corn syrup until it is a spreading consistency.
- Divide frosting into separate bowl and color as desired.
- Spread frosting on cooled cookies and let set until frosting is hard.
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Tracy Lynn
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Thank you so much for linking up a few posts for me over at Country Fair Blog Party last month! You are such a great supporter and I am grateful! These Sugar cookies would be a yummy addition to our November link up that just opened! I’d love to have you again!
Jan
These biscuits look just yum, thanks for sharing at Good Morning Mondays. Blessings
These cookies are a holiday favorite at my house!
The cookies really look great and I can almost smell them baking!!
Zan I make these cookies at every holiday and my grandchildren look forward to them! It is not a trip to grandma’s at the holiday’s without a cookie jar filled with holiday themed sugar cookies.
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So glad you share with us at Home Matters! Did you get the new day? We have moved to Fridays!
This recipes will be Featured at this week’s Home Matters 🙂
Would LOVE for you to share your cookie recipes with us at the Ultimate Cookie Party going on now also! Here is the link http://wp.me/p4fJXd-16T
Thanks Shirley and I will go share my cookie recipe with you!
The cookies are so cute and would be a big fall hit.
I look forward to making a batch every holiday with my granddaughter. It’s our way to welcome in each season.
I have so many wonderful memories of holiday cut out cookies. My mother and grandmother would make them but I had a special aunt that meant the world to me every holiday she would show up with a paper plate full of goodies She had spent her time making these up and I so loved her for not only the goodies but for coming by and bringing them
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There is really nothing better than an old fashioned frosted sugar cookie, yum! Thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with us at Full Plate Thursday and come back soon!
Miz Helen
Your frosted pumpkin sugar cookies are adorable for Fall. Thanks so much for linking up with us at the #HomeMattersParty this week.
They look so pretty, and sound delicious too. Thank you for sharing the recipe at The Really Crafty Link Party this week. Pinned!
Thank you for sharing your memories of your Grandmother’s kitchen, and her wonderful recipe! There’s nothing like an old fashioned sugar cookie. Pinning. Thank you for being a part of the Hearth and Soul Link Party!
I love sugar cookies, especially during the holidays. I’m pinning your recipe. Thanks for sharing on Sunday’s Best.
Who could resist little pumpkin shaped cookies!! Thank you for linking this recipe up at Create, Bake, Grow & Gather this week. I’m delighted to be featuring it at tonight’s party and pinning too!
Yum! Frosted sugar cookies are my kids favorites (and mine too!) Thanks for sharing on Homestead Blog Hop!
Good afternoon. These cookies look sooooooooo good but I was wondering since my sister is allergic to Almonds can we sub. in vanilla extract instead? I will make a batch for my family that are not allergic to Almonds. Thanks for a reply in advance.
You sure can…vanilla would be just as good.