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Prep Time: 45 Minutes Cook Time: 10 Minutes |
Ready In: 55 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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These cookies are unusually crisp, delicately flavored sugar cookies. From Sunset. Ingredients:
1/4 lb butter or 1/4 lb margarine, at room temperature,about |
1/2 cup granulated sugar |
1/2 cup powdered sugar |
1/2 cup salad oil |
1 large egg |
1/2 teaspoon vanilla |
2 cups all-purpose flour, about |
1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg |
1/4 teaspoon salt |
Directions:
1. In a large bowl, with a mixer on medium speed, beat 1/2 cup butter, granulated sugar, and powdered sugar until smooth.
2. Add oil, egg, and vanilla and beat until well blended.
3. In a medium bowl, mix 2 cups flour, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt.
4. Stir into butter mixture, then beat until well blended.
5. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and freeze until dough is firm, about 1 hour.
6. Shape dough into 1-inch balls and place about 2 inches apart on buttered 12- by 15-inch baking sheets.
7. Press each cookie with the lightly floured tines of a fork to flatten slightly.
8. Bake cookies in a 350° regular or convection oven until edges are lightly browned, 8 to 10 minutes; if baking two sheets at once in one oven, switch their positions halfway through baking.
9. Let cookies cool on sheets for 5 minutes, then use a wide spatula to transfer to racks to cool completely.
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