Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
½ cup butter, softened
1½ cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
½ tsp. salt
2 tsps. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
½ tsp. soda
4½ cups flour
Directions
Cream butter and sugar, then add eggs, and mix well.
Add sour cream, salt, baking powder, vanilla, soda, and flour, and mix well.
Chill one hour.
Roll out dough ⅜” thick (approximately the thickness of a wooden spoon handle), and use cookie cutters to cut into shapes.
Put on ungreased cookie sheet, and bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
Dawnelle’s Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie
½ cup shortening
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup white sugar
1 egg
1½ Tbsps. vanilla
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
¾ cup flour
1½ cups quick oatmeal
Chocolate chips
Vanilla or peanut butter chips
Coconut and/or chopped nuts
Directions
Cream shortening and sugars until smooth.
Add eggs and stir; then mix in vanilla, salt, and soda.
Add sifted flour, then mix in oatmeal.
Stir in chips, coconut, and nuts until fully coated.
Drop by tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 12–15 minutes.
Note: These cookies are fabulous as is, but if you’d like a healthier version, cut back slightly on shortening, using only ¼ to ⅓ cup, and decrease baking time by 1–2 minutes. You can also substitute whole-wheat flour for up to half of the white flour without much change in the final product.
About the Author
Marlene Bateman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in English. She is married to Kelly R. Sullivan, and they live on half an acre filled with flowers, quail, and fruit trees in North Salt Lake, Utah, in the foothills of the lovely Wasatch Mountains.
Marlene loves reading, camping, and flowers, and has a super-sized iris garden with more than 80 different varieties. Also an animal lover, Marlene has a pudgy Westie and an energetic Welsh Corgi, both of whom manage to coexist with her four cats.
Marlene has written a number of nonfiction books, including Latter-day Saint Heroes and Heroines, And There Were Angels among Them, Visits from Beyond the Veil, By the Ministering of Angels, Brigham’s Boys, Heroes of Faith, Gaze into Heaven: Near-Death Experiences in Early Church History, and The Magnificent World of Spirits. Marlene also wrote the best-selling novel Light on Fire Island as well as three other mysteries, Motive for Murder, A Death in the Family, and Crooked House. You can learn more about Marlene and her books at www.marlenebateman.info
Other Books by Marlene Bateman
Crooked House
A Death in the Family
Motive for Murder
Light on Fire Island
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