Momma's Sugar Cookies - Blog Style

My mom made these cookies alot when I was a little girl. They are the best sugar cookies I've ever had to date if made correctly. Today Kelsey asked if we could make them, and so, here we are. I figured it could be a cooking lesson and photography lesson all together.

The recipe goes something like this: Grab your little helper. She will be doing all the work and licking the bowl.


Gather all your ingredients. You will need sugar, butter, Crisco, eggs, buttermilk, baking soda, salt, vanilla and flour.


For the first part of the recipe you will need sugar, butter and Crisco.


First you need to either leave the butter get to room temperature or cheat and use the microwave at a power level of around 50% to get your butter to soften. I usually heat it at 50% for about 35 seconds. Whatever works.


Add the sugar to the mixing bowl


Next in goes the Crisco (this should already be room temperature unless for some strange reason you keep your Crisco in the refridgerator, lol)


Now add the softened butter (And that's real butter, not lowfat or margarine. REAL butter, yum)


Mix it up good


Then you want to add your eggs. Just dump them all in there.


Add your salt


And vanilla and mix it all up. Now here is where you want to taste it if you like sweet yummy goodness. Once you add the baking soda and buttermilk it starts to look, well, kinda gross.


Ok, in a separate bowl add buttermilk





Baking soda




Mix it together and let it sit for a few minutes (it will expand so make sure you use a larger bowl than what it fits in)


Pour this buttermilk/baking soda mixture into your first mixture




Mix it up and then look at it. It looks nasty doesn't it. It almost look like it's curdled. Maybe it is.


Now measure out your flour and then sift it. (My mamma always does it this way.) Dump your flour in the mixture a little at a time.


Mix - make sure you scrape your mixing bowl - don't be like me


Look through your cupboards (all the way in the back) is where you will find the best cookie toppings. I have to keep mine back there or I'll I mean the kids will eat them. Find what you have. If you don't have any you can just use plain old sugar. Tastes the same it just doesn't look as pretty.


Have your daughter take a picture of you taking a picture of the next set of ingredients (after all this was a photography lesson too right?)


Back to the recipe now. Some of you will need to spray your pans or put a thin layer of oil on. I don't think I need to so I'm not.

For big sugar cookies you will use a lot of batter. I'm talking a big Tablespoon full of the stuff.


Look what I found. I forgot that I bought some big sugar crystals at Wal-Mart a few months ago. It's good I hid them in the back of the cupboard or they would have been gone.


Everybody's favorite




Bake


And you know - every kids favorite part:


And every Mom's favorite part, UGH!!!!


You should bake them until they are just a little bit tan around the edges.


These cookies are great with hot chocolate or chocolate milk. Yummmm meeee! Hope you make them and love them.


Mom's Sugar Cookies - 350 degree oven
4 cups sugar
1 cup butter
1 cup crisco
4 eggs
2 cups buttermilk
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
8 cups of flour sifted

Mix the sugar, butter and crisco. Add eggs. Mix well. Add salt and vanilla. Mix. Buttermilk and baking soda should be mixed together in a seperate bowl and allowed to sit for a few minutes. Add the buttermilk mixture to the sugar mixture and mix well. Add flour gradually. Grease pans - only as needed.
One rounded Tablespoon for large cookie. Sprinkle with sugar before baking.