Some recipes call for royal icing, but i find that much harder to work with, overly sweet, and kind of bland!
Cracked Sugar Cookies I
You need a mixer's force to decorative sugars sprinkling cookie dough with sanding sugar before baking is a great way to add color and crunch.
Recipe Summary Cracked Sugar Cookies I
This is a nice soft center sugar cookie.Ingredients | Sugar Cookie Recipe With Fractions
1 ¼ cups white sugar
1 cup butter
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Lightly grease 2 cookie sheets.
Cream together sugar and butter. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla.
Add flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar. Stir.
Form dough into walnut size balls and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Don't flatten. Bake 10 to 11 minutes, until tops are cracked and just turning color.
Sugar Cookie Recipe With Fractions / In this easy sugar cookie recipe, you will learn how to make a tender cookie dough that keeps it's shape when you bake it!
