Easy sugar cookie recipes

Discover baking measurement secrets

2006-03-06T22:59:00.000Z

When you are measuring ingredients for baking it is very important how you do it. Much more so than for general cookery, getting the measurements right is one of hte keys to success.

So imporatnt is it that a whole section of hte easy-sugar-cookie-recipes site has been devoted to looking a the measurements and tools you should use to assure you of baking success.

Follow the link and read all about it.

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ours,
Tony

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Soft ginger cookies

2006-02-26T20:06:00.000Z

Wow, have I got news for you! I’ve been searching through and old recipe book that has traditional American recipes from over a hundred years ago and I found one for soft ginger cookies. Well I rewrote it for the modern cook (and corrected the ingredient list). Then I tried it.

Disaster. The mixture was supposed to be rolled out, but you could have poured it, it was so wet!

So I experimented and found a good consistency was somewhere in the middle, no rolling, just thick enough to spoon onto the prepared baking sheets. The next tricky bit was spotting when to get them out of the oven before they went really brown or started to burn round the edges.

Having managed that we had a result! Great brown (from the molasses) cookies with a deep ginger taste and wonderfully soft centres.

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A scottish gingernut cookie for a winter afternoon

2006-01-08T16:38:00.000Z

What's better, on a grey, damp winter afternoon, than the aroma that arises from molasses and spices cooking in the oven? Only the delight of a fresh, home cooked, tasty gingernut cookie!

This recipe only needs some hand mixing and simple ingredients, so you can try it right now.

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Yours, Tony

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Not a cookie this time, but tasty, traditional, Greek New Year Bread

2006-01-01T23:25:00.000Z

This recipe is for a light, sweet Greek New Year Bread (Vassilopitta) that is traditionally served on New Year's Day. I found it in a recipe book purchased after a wonderful holiday in Greece several years ago when I fell in love with the fish and sweet dishes. This recipe was a little gem at the back of the book that has now become a family tradition. I make it on New Year's Eve and we cut it at midnight straight after the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" (which means "Old long ago").

There is a coin baked into the bread, so cutting the bread and finding he coin is all part of the ritual. A slice is cut for each person in turn to see if they have been lucky enough to get the coin - as well as get a lovely slice of sweet bread.

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Cookies for Christmas

2005-12-04T23:26:00.000Z

For Christmas you need something special. Something that tells a story or reflects the season. Well here is a giant recipe for giant Christmas sugar cookie sandwiches. You will need a giant appetite, or a good friend, for one of these.

This recipe makes aromatic cookies, flavored with molasses for a heavy sweetness, cinnamon, that typical winter spice, and almond.
Then they are shaped as Christmas trees, colored and seasonally decorated.
Sure, they are a bit more trouble to make than are most cookies. But you do want to do something special for Christmas, don't you?

Enjoy your baking, throw in that extra bit of love along the way and have a very happy Christmas.

Click here for the Christmas sugar cookie sandwich recipe.

Link to 'Christmas sugar cookie sandwich' recipe.

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Yours
Tony

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Soul cakes and cookies for November

2005-10-31T22:02:00.000Z

Soul Cakes come from a tradition going back thousands of years. In the Middle Ages these cakes were baked and offered to the spirits of the souls who had gone before, and also given as alms to the poor.

This recipe is for a 'cookie' variation on a traditional Soul Cake and should help to satisfy those 'trick or treaters' who come knocking at your door.

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Link to 'Soul Cake' Cookie recipe.

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Yours
Tony

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A ginger cookie for Ronnie Barker

2005-10-09T15:47:00.000Z

Barker's Fork Cookie recipe

Ronnie Barker was, without doubt, one of the UK's funniest TV comedy actors for well over 30 years. With his partner and foil, Ronnie Corbett, he dominated the TV sketch show scene from the mid 70's. Later as Arkwright, the stuttering, domineering shopkeeper in 'Open All Hours' with David Jason and as Norman Stanley Fletcher, the prisoner always trying to get one over on the warders in 'Porridge', he continued his domination of the genre. He died in October 2005 at the grand age of 76.

To mark his passing, here is a typically English biscuit, with a little twist.

Link to Barker's Fork Cookie recipe

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Yours
Tony

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Scottish Honey & oat cookies

2005-09-03T22:22:00.000Z

Well, you do have a load of fun when trying to copy cookies you buy. Experimenting with different ingredients brings both rewards and surprises. I had not used oatmeal in cookies before, and it is very different from normal all purpose, plain, flour.
First, most recipes and ingredient lists talk about 'rolled oats'. Well, we made sure we got hold of some, and they are just the squashed germ with almost no flour dust. If you try using that on its own in recipes that say 'rolled oats', you get cookies that are much softer than you would expect.
Visit http://www.easy-sugar-cookie-recipes.com/honey-oat-cookie.html for an example like this.
However, the rolled oats do have their place. They do give cookies a distinctive roughness to the texture which is very pleasing on the tongue. But you do need to mix in some proper flour as well to give the cookie some body.
Try http://www.easy-sugar-cookie-recipes.com/honey-oat-cookie-2.html for an alternative that is still oaty, but with a much crisper finish.
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Enjoy!
Yours
Tony

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Cookies from Scotland

2005-08-11T21:41:00.000Z

We have returned from a trip to Scotland and a chance to sample many local tastes. We were in East Lothian on the south bank of the Firth of Forth about 20 miles east of Edinburgh.

The area is sheltered, and a lot of arable farming takes place. With Edinburgh close by there is a large ready market for good quality foods of all tastes.

Whilst there we sought out many locally baked cookies and we will bring them to you over the next few weeks so you can share the tastes of Scotland too.

Enjoy!
Yours Tony

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A pair of complementary Cookies, Coconut and Virginia cookies

2005-07-13T06:59:00.000Z

Hi,

In this post you will meet a pair of complementary cookies. By that I mean a pair of recipes, one of which uses egg yolks and one that uses the whites.

I don't know about you, but if I cook a meringue it seems so wasteful to throw the yolks away, so here are two cookie recipes that will allow you to use both halves of the egg.

The Coconut cookies can be found at http://www.easy-sugar-cookie-recipes.com/coconut-cookie-recipe.html Coconut-cookie-recipe.html page on the website. Only three ingredients plus some rice paper, what could be easier? Also they are grabbed off the plate once discovered, so you might want to make double quantities.

Virginia cookies are based on a traditional upstate recipe refined for dainty city life. Only five ingredients and bake them lightly so they remain moist in the centre.

Enjoy!

Yours

Tony
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Looking for specific cookie information?

2005-07-06T10:46:00.000Z

Many have asked for a 'quick find' site index so that they could find pages quickly and easily, so here it is...

The "Easy Sugar Cookie Recipes" site Index

You can go straight to the page you are looking for from here without having to search around the site.

We hope you enjoy your visit to our site...

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Tony
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Discover easy sugar cookie recipe secrets right here, right now!

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Find easy to bake sugar cookie recipes (with full method explanations) for you to bake and share.

Introduction to Sugar Cookie Recipes

An introduction to baking sugar cookies the easy and foolproof way!

Sugar cookie recipes US
- Easy bake sugar cookie recipes for making delicious home made fresh sugar cookies using American style measures, cups, ounces and Farenheit, detailed recipe.

Sugar cookie recipes US short recipe
- Easy bake sugar cookie recipes for making delicious home made fresh sugar cookies using American style measures, cups, ounces and Farenheit, short recipe.

Sugar cookie recipes EU
- Easy bake sugar cookie recipes for making delicious home made fresh sugar cookies using European style measures, grams and Celsius, detailed recipe.

Sugar cookie recipes EU short recipe
- Easy bake sugar cookie recipes for making delicious home made fresh sugar cookies using European style measures, grams and Celsius, short recipe.

Chocolate nut cookies
- A speedy recipe for light, crisp, chocolate hazelnut cookies.

Peanut & raisin chewy cookies
- A speedy recipe for soft chewy peanut and raising cookies.

Butterscotch cookies
- A quick and easy recipe for butterscotch cookies.

No egg Shortbread cookies
- Scottish shortbread recipe - cookies without eggs.

Ayrshire shortbread
- Ayrshire Scottish shortbread recipe - with some egg and cream.

Spicy molasses and raisin cookies
- A handy recipe for spicy molasses and raisin cookies.

Improved Sugar cookie recipe
- Easy bake improved sugar cookie recipes for making delicious home made fresh sugar cookies.

The Trafalgar 200 celebration cookie
- Easy bake improved sugar cookie recipes for making delicious home made fresh sugar cookies.

Welcome to Gingerbread world

An introduction to the exciting world of gingerbread.

Gingerbread story
- The history of gingerbread and links to classic easy bake gingerbread recipes.

Ginger - a spicy story!
- Ginger, the main spice in gingerbread and spiced cookies, has a long and interesting history.

Classic Gingerbread cookies
- The definitive classic gingerbread cookie recipe. Bake cookies or delicious gingerbread men.

Hard Gingerbread cookies
- This hard gingerbread cookie recipe is from New England. Quick and tasty gingerbread!

Sticky gingerbread loaf
- The recipe for the most gorgeous sticky gingerbread loaf.

Ingredients

Learn about the ingredients used when making sugar cookies.

Sugar and molasses
- Read about your ingredients and understand them more for better results.

Trans fats
- The truth about Trans Fats and why home made cookies are good for you..

Ginger - a spicy story!
- Ginger, the main spice in gingerbread and spiced cookies, has a long and interesting history.

Conversions useful in Cookie cookery

A set of tables and advice on conversions to use when baking cookie recipes.

Cookery Measurements
- A guide to making accurate ingredient measurements for your cookies.

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THE TRAFALGAR 200 COOKIE PART 3

2005-07-02T15:14:00.000Z

Now we have a set of ingredients and a cooking facility, what kind of recipe would be suitable?

Standard ships’ cooks in those days were generally hardly worthy of the name ‘cook’ as they were frequently battle-injured seamen at the end of their career’s afloat. So their culinary skills were not great.

But ships’ captains and fleet admirals often had their own servants who could cook to a reasonable standard. They would be in touch with new developments so that they could impress their master’s guests. Their utensils would be basic, they would share the general ship’s Brodie Stove, and especially had no electrical gadgets to mix or chill!

So I have chosen a recipe that uses molasses, dried fruit soaked in rum, butter and flour. It has no eggs and requires only simple mixing.

To see the full recipe go to:

Trafalgar 200 cookie recipe - http://www.easy-sugar-cookie-recipes.com/trafalgar-200-cookie-recipe.html

Yours

Tony
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THE TRAFALGAR 200 COOKIE PART 2

2005-06-29T17:10:00.000Z

Celebrating a major event like the 200th anniversary of the death of Admiral Lord Nelson and the battle of Trafalgar takes some planning, just a Nelson did on the day. And what an event it was.

See event details

Returning to cookies, and looking at the ingredients likely to be held on board a ship-of-the-line around 1805, we find flour available, sugar, spices for the officers (probably from a private supply) and salt. Some dried fruit could be available and butter and eggs in limited supply when close to shore. Goats were the main source of milk as cattle were large and kept for fresh meat.

Molasses could have been available as it is sugar in a form suitable for long term storage. It was made in the West Indies from the 15th Century. Nelson had spent time in the West Indies and would, most likely, have come across it.
And, of course, that naval tradition of rum.

Cooking was done using a single oven that could supply the whole 175 man crew of the Victory with a hot meal. It was called a 'Brodie' stove after its inventor. It could boil, roast and bake bread, so cookies could have been prepared.

See the stores list for HMS Victory

Continued...

Yours

Tony
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THE TRAFALGAR 200 COOKIE

2005-06-28T17:04:00.000Z

This year is the 200th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar, probably the most famous naval battle ever.

See the story here.

We were invited to join some friends on their motor yacht to see the Fleet Review off Spithead in Southampton water, a central part of the celebrations.

See event details

So I wondered if Nelson would have had cookies of any sort, and if not, what might have been?

Well it turns out hat the only biscuits that would have been on board were 'hard tack'. These are biscuits that were very tough and baked very dry to give them good keeping qualities, a far cry from the cookies we know today. To eat them they generally had to be soaked to soften them. Not the best food for famous Admiral!

So then I looked at likely ingredients and cooking methods.

Continued...

Yours

Tony
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An Introduction to Gingerbread Cookies

2005-06-15T07:45:00.000Z

Hi & welcome back,

Gingerbread cookies are amongst the most popular. Whether they are straight cookies or gingerbread men does not seem to matter. Whenever they are on a plate and within reach they disappear.

Gingerbread has a long and interesting history, call by the web page to read about it before you try the classic gingerbread recipe.

http://www.easy-sugar-cookie-recipes.com/gingerbread-story.html

Enjoy (and then munch some!)

Yours

Tony
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My first recipe

2005-06-12T20:22:00.000Z

So, with hundreds - if not thousands - of recipes where do you start?

I found that the answer was with a recipe - which might not be the best - but is certain to deliver a good result and is easily repeatable.

Then I had to consider that, as it is published on the web, it could be read by people anywhere around the workd. So I've published it in American units (cups/ ounces/ Farenheit) and also European units (grans/ Centrigrade).

You can find this guaranteeed cookie recipe at

www.easy-sugar-cookie-recipes.com/basic-sugar-cookie-recipes.html

Scoll down to the section called "Important Note" and choose the recipe type you favor.

There are four to choose from as I've published this first recipe either as a standar recipe format or as a set of very detailed instructions if you are new to baking as I was. Follow these and you are sure to succeed.

Yours

Tony
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Feedback is welcome, as are recipe suggestions.

Blogging for sugar cookies

2005-06-11T21:52:00.000Z

Hi, and welcome to this blog all about sugar cookie recipes.

When I share the results of one of my bakings with someone new they inevitably ask...

"How come you are baking cookies or biscuits? "

The answer is simple - I got hooked.

My wife is a good, and professionally trained, cook. She has cooked by far the bulk of our family meals for many years. As the children grew older I, and they, took it in turns to cook family dinner from time to time. As a result they can all feed themselves and the eldest two are now much better than their Dad.

However I had never tried baking of any sort. So, when the children had left home I decided to give it a go. Not cakes, my wife is certainly the expert there, but cookies and biscuits.

I became hooked as I tried to interpret an old book of recipes. Very hard to get consistent, or even edible, results as they all assumed much experience and 'feel'. So I started to rewrite the recipes as I mastered them making them much easier to follow.

Then, as a result of people asking about the recipes, I put them up on the web.

You can see them at
www.easy-sugar-cookie-recipes.com

New recipes are being added as I get to them.

Enjoy!

Yours

Tony