Stir and Drop Sugar Cookies I

Soft, tasty, quick and easy cookies. Great for spur-of-the-moment baking since you don’t need to soften butter.

Original recipe makes 3 dozen

Ingredients

2 eggs
2/3 cup corn oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
3/4 cup white sugar
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

  • PREP

    25 mins

  • COOK

    10 mins

  • READY IN

    35 mins

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
  2. Stir oil into beaten eggs. Add lemon rind and vanilla. Blend in sugar until mixture thickens.
  3. Sift flour, baking powder and salt; stir into wet mixture.
  4. Drop by teaspoons about 2 inches apart on UNGREASED cookie sheet.
  5. Dip the bottom of a glass in oil then in sugar. Flatten each cookie by gently pressing with bottom of glass. Dip in sugar before stamping each cookie.
  6. Bake in preheated oven until the edges are golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove immediately from cookie sheet and cool on a wire rack.

Nutrition

Calories: 164 kcal
Carbohydrates: 19.2 g
Cholesterol: 24 mg
Fat: 8.8 g
Fiber: 0.4 g
Protein: 2.1 g
Sodium: 127 mg