The Best Years: Fabulous Sugar Cookies

I found this recipe for the softest most delicious sugar cookies EVER from this blog.

I made them last night and should have read all of the comments before I made them b/c it would have helped with the stickiness of the dough...HERE it is! :)

You Need:

1 cup of butter

2 cups of sugar

2 eggs

3 tsp. vanilla

1 cup of sour cream...YES, SOUR CREAM, it's great.

1 tsp. salt

2 tsp. baking soda

5 1/2 cups flour

Cooking spray

Parchment paper

Directions:

· In mixer, cream the butter and sugar, add eggs and vanilla.

· After those are mixed, add and mix in the sour cream

· In a separate bowl, combine salt, soda, and flour, mix together, then add to butter mixture

**My dough was SUPER SUPER STICKY. I just kept adding flour but in the comments I saw that if you let the dough chill OVERNIGHT that it eliminates the sticky! So I'm going to try that next time!***

· If you opt not to chill then, Roll out on a VERY WELL FLOURED surface to about 1/4 to 1/3 inch thick...you REALLY want to make sure they're thick!

· Cut out your cookies.

**last night I realized that I don't have any cookie cutters, so I used the mouth of a round cup I had. B/c the dough was so sticky I would dip my "cookie cutter" into a bowl of flour I had set to the side.**

"Cookie Cutter"

· Remove the scraps, which will be VERY hard to do if your counter/board/whatever you're using is not heavily floured.

· Use a spatula to carefully pick up each doughy cookie and place on a greased parchment-lined cookie sheet

· Roll out the scraps and repeat until you're finished.

Bowl o' flour. :)

Bake at 375 for 7-8 minutes

THEY WILL NOT LOOK DONE!!!

Do NOT give in and "cook them a little longer". They will not have ANY brown anywhere on them. If they are golden brown around the edges you have cooked them too long.

**My oven typically cooks fast but I left them in for 7 minutes and they turned out PERFECT!!!**

I got about 3 dozen cookies out of this recipe!

The blogger put in a recipe for butter cream frosting....I personally thought it was disgusting and liked the Duncan Hines Butter cream Frosting much better. I'll put the recipe in here anyway, up to you! :)

Butter cream Frosting:

1/2 cup butter, softened

4 cups powdered sugar

2 tsp vanilla

1/4-1/3 cup milk

· Cream butter, beat in sugar and vanilla until crumbly.

· Gradually add milk until the frosting reaches desired consistency, add desired food coloring.

Good luck my lovely bloggers!!