Sarahs Sour Cream Cookies Recipes

SARAH'S RAISIN COOKIES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the eggs, vanilla extract, almond extract and raisins. Cover and refrigerate for at least one hour. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
• In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar and white sugar until smooth. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; stir into the sugar mixture. Mix in the raisin mixture until well blended. Stir in oats. Roll into 1 inch balls and place them 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

GREAT GRANDMA'S SOUR CREAM DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line two rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Cream sugar, shortening, and butter together in the bowl of a stand mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 1 minute.
• Mix in sour cream and lemon zest on low speed until no streaks of sour cream remain. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing on medium-low just until there are no streaks of yolk, and scraping down the sides of the bowl between additions. Add flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder all at once and mix just to combine.
• Drop by heaping tablespoons on the prepared baking sheets, about 2 inches apart.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the tops are puffy and spring back when lightly touched with a finger, about 10 minutes. They should be light golden, with occasional spots of pale golden brown.

SOUR CREAM SUGAR COOKIES II

Steps:

• Cream butter, lard and sugar. Add eggs and beat. Mix sour cream and baking soda together and add to egg mixture. Add flour and salt and mix well.
• Chill dough until firm enough to roll.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).
• Roll out dough and cut with cookie cutter. It's wise to keep dough in refrigerator between rolling out batches. Bake for 5 - 7 minutes.

SARAH'S SOUR CREAM CAKE

Steps:

• Beat the cake mix and eggs together. Beat in the sugar, oil and sour cream.
• Pour 1/2 the mixture in a 9x13 inch greased and floured pan. Sprinkle with 1/2 the sugar and cinnamon.
• Pour remaining cake in pan and sprinkle remaining sugar and cinnamon.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

SOUR CREAM SUGAR COOKIES III

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Cream butter with sugar, beat in egg, then stir in sour cream and vanilla. Stir in flour mixture 1/3 at a time.
• Wrap dough in wax paper and chill.
• Roll out 1/4 inch thick. Cut out cookies with your favorite cookie cutters. Put on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 10 minutes.

GREAT AUNT AUDRITA'S SOUR CREAM COOKIES (SUGAR COOKIE CUT-OUTS)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together sugar, shortening, sour cream and eggs.
• Then stir into mixture the baking soda, nutmeg, vanilla, salt and cream of tartar. Do not add flour just yet.
• Chill mixture 1-24 hours.
• Gradually add flour to chilled mixture until dough is stiff enough to roll for cut-out cookies.
• On a generously floured work surface, roll out dough a little at a time with a rolling pin dusted with flour until 1/2-inch thick.
• Use flour-dipped cookie cutters to cut into desired shapes. Place cut-outs onto a lightly greased cookie sheet, making sure to space cookies two inches apart.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes or until tops of cookies are no longer shiny, and bottoms are lightly browned.
• Cool on a wire rack.
• Decorate with icing of your choice (optional) and store in an air-tight container.

SARAH'S MOANABLE SOFT SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix all the wet ingredients together
• Then add the dry ingredients.
• Chill dough for several hours preferably overnight.
• Roll out onto a flour covered surface and cut with cookie cutters. (Keep dough not being used in the fridge as this dough softens quickly.).
• Bake at 350 for 8-10, let cool then frost.
• (We make both large and small cookies and we usually end up around 80-100 cookies).

SARAH'S SOUR CREAM COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat sugar, margarine and eggs together.
• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Add liquid flavoring (vanilla or see below) to sour cream.
• Add dry ingredients to margarine mixture alternately with sour cream mixture, mixing well.
• Drop by spoonfuls on cookie sheet. Grease the bottom of a glass and dip in sugar, flatten cookies.
• Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes.
• *Alternative flavoring combinations: in lieu of vanilla. 1 tsp lemon or 1 tsp cinnamon & 1 tsp nutmeg & 1/2 tsp cloves. 1/4 cup cocoa & 1 tsp vanilla. Brown sugar in lieu of white and 1 tsp vanilla.