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Vanilla Crisps

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, dessert, easy, recipes for cookies, recipes using all-purpose flour, recipes using butter, recipes using egg, recipes using margarine, recipes using vanilla, recipes using white sugar, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AVanilla_Crisps)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AVanilla%20Crisps&oldid=4515344

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter or margarine
  • ½ cup shortening
  • ⅔ cup white granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. Cream butter, shortening and sugar together.
  3. Add salt and vanilla.
  4. One at a time, beat eggs into mixture.
  5. Stir flour into mixture to make dough.
  6. Roll dough into small balls and press into circular shapes on ungreased cookie sheet.
  7. Bake for 8–10 minutes.
  8. Remove immediately from pan and allow to cool.

Notes

Unlike sugar cookies, there is no need to chill before baking.

To give an extra taste, add 1 teaspoon of almond extract.