Kathleen’s Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies
2-3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1-1/4 cups butter (or margarine)
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
¼ cup sugar
Preheat oven to 350F (175C).
In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and 2 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla. Gradually stir in the dry ingredients until just blended. Roll the dough into balls about 1-1/4” diameter. Roll the balls in the remaining ¼ cup sugar. Place cookies on greased baking sheets and flatten slightly with a glass that has been dipped in granulated sugar.
Bake for 8-10 minutes until lightly browned at the edges. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to cool completely.
**If you want to have cookies for later, or to give away, hide some, or bake them when no one is home. I usually can’t bake them fast enough to accumulate any cookies – the kids eat them as fast as they come out of the oven!
