Amish Sugar Cookies are soft, melt-in-your mouth, old-fashioned sugar cookies that everyone will love. These simple drop cookies are made with common pantry ingredients, and are super easy to make, just some mixing, and bake them up.
turbinado sugar(or sugar in the raw) for garnishing
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375° F.
In a large mixing bowl, using a hand mixer or sturdy fork, cream the butter and granulated sugar together. Beat in the vegetable oil, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract until smooth. Beat in the egg just until combined. Set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt. Add half of the flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix just until combined. Add the remaining flour and mix until the flour is just combined. Do not over mix.
Spoon or scoop the batter onto the baking sheets lined with parchment paper in evenly spaced mounds by rounded tablespoons so you have 1 to 1 & ½-inch mounds.
Sprinkle the top of each cookie with a pinch of turbinado sugar.
Bake the cookies at 375° F for 8-10 minutes, until they begin to lightly brown around the edges.
Remove the baking sheet from the oven, and place the baking sheet on a wire rack to cool for about 5 minutes. Slide the baking sheet out from under the parchment paper, leaving the cookies on the parchment paper to cool completely while on the wire rack.