The Ultimate Sugar Cookie

This Ultimate Sugar Cookie recipe is preserved from a printed clipping stapled to an index card and filed under Cookies in My Mom’s Recipe Box. The original wording, brand references, decorating choices, and baking guidance are retained as printed.

Original Recipe Card

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 cup Butter Flavor* Crisco
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup light corn syrup or regular pancake syrup
• 1 Tbsp. vanilla
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt

Decorations (your choice)

colored sugar crystals, frosting, decors, candies, chips, raisins, coconut, decorating gel

Directions

1. Heat oven to 375°F.
2. Combine sugar and Butter Flavor Crisco in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Add eggs, syrup and vanilla. Beat well.
3. Combine 3 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add gradually to creamed mixture at low speed. Mix until well blended. Divide dough into quarters. Tip: If dough is too sticky/soft to roll, wrap each quarter of dough with plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour. Keep refrigerated until ready to roll.
4. Spread 1 tablespoon of flour on large sheet of waxed paper.
5. Place a quarter of dough on floured paper. Flatten dough slightly; turn over and cover with another sheet of waxed paper. Roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut out with floured cutter. Transfer to ungreased baking sheet, 2 inches apart. Sprinkle with decors, or leave plain to frost when cooled.
6. Bake at 375°F for 5-9 minutes. (bake smaller, thinner cut-outs closer to 5 minutes; larger cut-outs closer to 9 minutes). DO NOT OVERBAKE. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove to counter to cool completely, then frost if desired.

Yield

ABOUT 3-4 DOZEN COOKIES (depending on size)

Preservation Notes

This recipe is a printed magazine clipping stapled to an index card. The original scan preserves the sideways placement, staple, printed artwork, paper tone, and the way the clipping was filed.

Notes From the Original

The clipping includes “Cooks Who Know Trust Crisco,” a 1993 Procter & Gamble copyright, the note “†Butter Flavor Crisco is artificially flavored,” and the attribution “*From Betty Crocker Cookbook.”

About My Mom’s Recipe Box

This recipe is part of My Mom’s Recipe Box, an ongoing preservation project dedicated to my late mother’s original recipe collection. Every effort is made to preserve the original wording, organization, handwritten notes, typewritten cards, magazine clippings, corrections, and other details exactly as they appeared in her recipe box. When clarification is helpful, it is provided separately so the original recipe remains preserved.