Sour Cream Cookies I Food

SOUR CREAM SUGAR COOKIES I

Steps:

• Cream together 1 1/2 cups white sugar, butter or margarine, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and eggs. Add sour cream.
• Mix together 5 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, baking powder and baking soda. Gradually add to the egg-sugar mixture.
• Cover and chill dough for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Roll out on lightly floured surface to 1/4 inch thick. Cut out cookies. Bake on lightly greased cookie sheet for 10 - 12 minutes.
• To Make Frosting: In small bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat together the softened cream cheese and evaporated milk until smooth. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/8 teaspoon salt and confectioners' sugar. Beat until well blended. Color as desired and frost cooled cookies.

SOUR CREAM COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two cookie sheets.
• In small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
• In large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat butter until creamy. Gradually add sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
• Beat in sour cream, lemon extract, and vanilla.
• Reduce speed to low; beat in flour mixture just until blended.
• Drop dough by rounded teaspoons, 1 inch apart, on prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake until set and golden around edges, 10-12 minutes.
• Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; with wide spatula, transfer cookie to wire racks to cool completely.

OLD FASHIONED SOUR CREAM COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and creamy. You can use a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment or a large bowl and electric hand mixer.
• Add the sour cream, eggs, and vanilla. Beat well, stopping to scrape the bottom and sides of your bowl, to incorporate ingredients until smooth.
• Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and beat on low until dry ingredients are combined.
• The dough will be very soft and this is what we're looking for. Refrigerate overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Portion cookies using a tablespoon or cookie scoop. Portion cookies and roll into a ball between hands. Add cookie balls to a greased baking sheet.
• Bake for 11-12 minutes until the center is set and the edges are just starting to turn a light golden brown.
• Cream the butter in a large bowl using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment or a hand mixer.
• Add the powdered sugar and mix on low-speed until all of the sugar is combined.
• Add in milk, 1 Tbsp at a time and vanilla extract to reach desired consistency.

OLD FASHIONED SOUR CREAM COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream shortening, sugar, egg, and vanilla.
• Blend dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture alternating with cour cream. Measure flour by dip level, pour method or by sifting.
• Refrigerate dough for at least 1 hour to make easier to roll out.
• Roll dough out 1/4" thick on well-floured surface.
• Cut with 3-1/2" (9cm) round cookie cutter or other shapes.
• Place on baking sheet. Can sprinkle with colored baking sugar at this point or wait and frost when cookies have cooled down.
• Bake at 350F (175C) for 8-10 minutes.

AWESOME SOUR CREAM SUGAR COOKIES WITH HOMEMADE ICING

Steps:

• Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt in bowl and set aside.
• Cream butter sugar, egg and vanilla. Beat 2 minutes.
• Add sour cream and beat well.
• Add dry ingredient mix (flour, baking soda, and salt) and blend well.
• Roll on floured board to desired thickness. (1/4 inch thick will create thick cookies that will stay moist for up to two weeks).
• Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters.
• Bake on greased cookie sheet at 325°F for 12 minutes.
• Allow cookies to cool completely before decorating.
• Pour bag of confectioner sugar into bowl.
• Whisk the 1 stick butter (melted), 1 tbsp almond extract, and 1/2 can evaporated milk in separate bowl until well mixed.
• Slowly blend into the powered sugar a bit at a time until the icing is a good consistency for decorating. Will not take the entire mixture.
• Pour icing into smaller bowls and use food coloring to make icing into different colors.
• Decorate with icing as desired.
• Use remaining butter, almond, evap.milk mixture to freshen up the icing as it hardens over time. Re-heat the mixture in the microwave before adding to the icing. Add to the icing a few drops at a time until the icing becomes spreadable again. You may have to add more food coloring to freshen up the color.
• Use sprinkles, candy, and a lot of imagination to decorate cookies.
• Lay decorated cookies on wax paper to dry, it will take icing about 2 hours to firm onto cookie but once dry you can store them in an airtight container.