Sugar Thins Recipes

SUGAR THINS

Steps:

• Cream the butter and sugar. Beat the egg and add it to the butter mixture. Add the cream and vanilla.
• Sift the flour, salt, and baking powder. Add to the creamed mixture. chill dough overnight. Roll small amounts of dough on lightly floured surface. Roll very thin. These will turn out like a sweet cracker. The thinner the better. Cut out cookies with your favorite cookie cutters. Sprinkle with sugar.Bake on a greased cookie sheet a 350 degrees for about 8 to10 minutes. Watch carefully, they get done quickly.

SUGAR-DUSTED VANILLA SHORTBREAD

Steps:

• Tip the flour into a food processor. Cut the butter into small pieces and drop them into the bowl, then whizz until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, vanilla and egg yolks and whizz to a smooth dough.
• With your hands, roll the dough on a lightly floured surface into a sausage shape about 25cm/9in long and 5cm/2½in in diameter. Wrap the roll and chill for at least 1 hour. (The roll can be frozen for up to 6 weeks. To use, remove from the freezer and allow to thaw for one hour at room temperature so that the dough is soft enough to be sliced into biscuits.)
• Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4/fan 160C and lightly grease 2 large baking sheets. Using a sharp knife, cut the dough into slices, each a generous 5mm/¼in thick, then arrange them on the greased baking sheets, spacing the biscuits slightly apart so they have a bit of room to spread as they cook.
• Bake for 20 minutes until the biscuits are just turning pale golden around the edges, then transfer to a wire rack to cool. Dust generously with icing sugar. The biscuits will keep fresh for up to one week stored in an airtight tin.

CINNAMON THINS

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add egg and beat well.
• Combine flour with baking powder and salt.
• Add to creamed mixture and mix well.
• Drop onto greased cookie sheet in marble-sized balls.
• Press flat with bottom of greased glass dipped in the sugar-cinnamon mixture.
• Bake in 350°F oven 10 minutes.
• Remove from cookie sheet and cool.