This chewy sugar cookie recipe makes delicious cookies that are crisp on the outside and very chewy on the inside. Just the way I like them! These cookies are meant to be shaped or dropped. This recipe can easily be made into snickerdoodle cookies by rolling the dough in cinnamon sugar before baking.
Ingredients
- ¾ cups all-purpose flour: 2 piece
- baking soda: 1 tsp
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- white sugar: 2 cups
- ¼ cups margarine: 1 piece
- eggs: 2 piece
- vanilla extract: 2 tsp
- white sugar for decoration: 0.25 cup
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Stages of cooking
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Stir flour, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl. Beat sugar and margarine together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Beat first egg into mixture. Beat second egg into mixture along with vanilla extract; add flour mixture and stir until dough is just combined. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
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Roll dough into walnut-sized balls; roll in 1/4 cup of sugar. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Place cookies 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets and flatten slightly. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned at the edges, about 8 to 10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on the cookie sheets for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios