This was our fourth event and it keeps getting more elaborate each year! We are each required to bring two of our fave recipes and then we all hang out in the kitchen, drink mimosas, and bake the cookies. Afterwards, we pack all of the cookies into tins to take home to hungry husbands/boyfriends, ship off to sisters in Hawaii, or eat all by our lonesome!
For my part, I’m required to bring the same two recipes each year: my Grandma’s buckeye recipe and my Grandma’s sugar cookie recipe. I daresay they are always the favorites! The buckeyes are awesome, but we’ll save those for another day. Instead, we’re gonna chat about the ever-classic sugar cookie.
You see, I have high standards for sugar cookies. Grandma used to bake these suckers every year, elaborately decorate them with frosting, pack them into holiday containers (ensuring we each got a Santa cookie, of course), and ship them off to her children and grandchildren all over the country. Grandma can no longer do the baking, but her recipe still lives on as the best sugar cookie recipe ever! And guys, I’m being super serious here. No one has ever disliked this cookie AND it is unanimously the favorite sugar cookie of every single person who has tried it. I mean business with my baked goods!
Ingredients:
1# Butter (4 Sticks)
1 8-oz. Cream Cheese
2 Cup White Sugar
2 Egg Yolks
1 Tsp Vanilla
4 1/2 Cup Flour
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Cream together butter and cream cheese. Then, add in the sugar and the egg yolks. Once those ingredients are well-blended, mix in the remaining ingredients. I prefer to add the flour a half of a cup at a time. Also, be aware– the flour makes the dough incredibly thick! If you have a KitchenAid, you’ll be golden but I don’t…. and I blew up my mixer 🙂
3. Cover and chill the dough for at least an hour; overnight is best.
4. Roll out dough and cut into shapes with your favorite cookie cutters. Be sure that the cut-outs aren’t too thin; they are more apt to burn.
5. Bake on a lightly greased cookie sheet for 10-12 minutes.
Yes, I know the ingredients in these cookies are absolutely atrocious… but that’s why they are Grandma’s cookies! The cream cheese makes them extra-soft and also adds a different type of sweetness. In fact, many people prefer these cookies without any type of frosting!