Recipe: Pillowy Sugar Cookies

By Vanessa Gillie

If you have a hankering for a delicious sugar cookie, skip the store-bought or packaged types. This is the recipe for you, because it’s not only simple, but it yields the most pillowy-soft sugar cookies, ever. Period.

Preheat your oven to 350˚.

Start by mix the following in one bowl:
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp baking powder

In another bowl, blend the following:
2 eggs
14 oz sweetened condensed milk
3/4 cup softened butter

Slowly combine the dry mixture into the eggs, condensed milk, and softened butter.

Drop and slightly flatten the dough onto a floured cookie sheet. If you plan on using cookie cutters, flour a dry surface and roll the dough into 1/4-inch thick sheets. Using your favorite shapes, cut away and carefully place each cookie onto a floured cookie sheet. Repeat until all dough is used.

Bake at 350˚ for 6-8 minutes. Check to see if they are done by lifting a cookie. If it comes off the sheet easily and the bottom is a light, golden brown, they are done.

Remove from oven and cool on a rack for 10 minutes. Allow them to cool completely before icing.

Ice, eat, and share (but only if you want to).

Vanessa Gillie

Vanessa S. Gillie
Spanish Fork, UT
Vanessa S. Gillie is an English Educator for Nebo School District in Utah County, Utah. She currently resides in Elk Ridge, Utah with her husband, Lee–who is also an educator for the school district– and 16-month-old son, Trenton.