Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookies are one of the best cookies. And this recipe IS the best sugar cookie recipe ever. Anyone who eats these loves them. I made them for O.E. (Outdoor Education, where the high school students go to a village for 2 weeks) and I’m hoping they like them. This recipe comes from my great friend, Hannah Harper at http://createdwithjoy.weebly.com/ Here is the link to the sugar cookies,  http://createdwithjoy.weebly.com/3/post/2012/06/sugar-cookies.html. Thank you so much, Hannah, for letting me put this on!!! Here it is!

        Sugar Cookies

½ cup butter, softened
¾ cup sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
1½ cups sifted flour (to give it a light texture)
¼ teaspoon salt

·         Cream butter and sugar together. Mix in egg and vanilla, then add flour and salt gradually and stir until well mixed.

·         If you want to use a cookie cutter, put it in the fridge for 30 minutes. Otherwise, use a spoon and drop little dollops of dough onto the baking sheet.

·         Preheat the oven to 180C (350F).

·         Bake in a preheated oven at for 10-15 minutes. 

Substitute for..... Buttermilk

You can’t get buttermilk here (at least I don’t think so). I’ve never really needed buttermilk ‘til I found the great blog http://sweetpeaskitchen.com/. She has a couple of recipes I’ve needed buttermilk for. And each recipe has turned out great. It’s so simple to do this. My mom says this is what you do (no idea where it came from). So here is the sub.

        Substitute for….. Buttermilk

For 1 cup: Pour 1 cup milk into a measuring cup or whatever and add ½ Tablespoon cuka (Indonesian vinegar).  If you are in Indonesia and have the vinegar/water mixture, add 1 Tablespoon of that to the milk.  If you are in America... add 1 Tablespoon of normal vinegar.  Mix together and use. That’s it.