Soft Sugar Cookies
This recipe for sugar cookies has been running with the Gilbert women of Ontario, Canada for more than 100 years. No one knows where the recipe started, but it's been that way as long as any can recall with no real change.
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup (230 g) shortening or butter
- Vanilla, to taste
- 1 cup (200 g) white granulated sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 2 tsp (10 g) baking powder
- 2–3 cups (250–375 g) flour
Ingredients for 12 servings (905 g) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
In a large bowl, beat eggs lightly to break the yolks as one would for scrambled eggs, then mix in the shortening. If using butter, soften it slightly beforehand by heating it a little. The shortening/egg mixture should be loose.
- 2
Mix in the sugar, then add the salt to the liquid mixture.
- 3
Add the baking powder, then slowly add the flour as needed to reach a proper doughy state (in essence, able to be shaped without sticking to one's hands too much). You may not need all of the flour, or you may even need a little more based on your eggs and how closely you measured.
- 4
Make balls and place onto a greased or parchment-lined pan then into an oven heated to 175°C (350°F), and let bake for between 15–20 minutes.
Oven
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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