Sugar Cookie Recipe

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
2 c Sugar
1 c sour cream
1 c soft margarine
2 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt
1tsp nutmeg
6 to 8 c flour (enough to stiffen)
Combine sugar, sour cream, and margarine. Add eggs, mix. Add all dry ingredients to make a stiff dough. Refrigerate 4+ hrs. Roll out and cut. Bake at 375 10-12 min.

Frosting
1/3 c soft margarine
3 c powder sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla or lemon juice
2 tbsp milk
Mix all above with a mixer until smooth.

Here's the actual Cookies by Design recipe and an article with the company owner...

http://www.tristateneighbor.com/articles/2007/12/07/tri_s...

I use this one for everything!! Soft, firm and thick. the flavor and texture cant be beat! They are always the first to disappear.

NOTES:
- make sure the dough is well chilled ( I leave it over night)
- roll it out between 2 sheets of saran wrap dusted w/ flour. (dough will be sticky)
- Add flour as needed when rolling out. Try to use as little as possible, but enough so that you can roll.
- dip your cutters into flour before cutting
- Use a 1/3 of the dough at a time.
- When baking, watch your first batch and see how long it takes for them to bake - each oven is different. you want them just golden on the bottom and barely on the edges.

D.'s Sugar cookies:

3 cups flour
1 TBSP baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1-1/4 cup sugar
1 cup butter, soft
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

FROSTING
6 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup butter, soft
4 teaspoons vanilla
milk to consistency

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs. Mix all other ingredients in a separate bowl first, then add half to the wet mixture. Add the rest of the flour mix, and chill at least 4 hours.

Bake at 350 until edges are just brown.

Mix all ingredients for frosting, adding milk until it reaches desired consistency.

Try allrecipes.com it is a great website.

Here is my sugar cookie recipe.

Mix together two and a half cups flour, half teaspoon baking soda, and three fourths a teaspoon of salt. Set aside.

Cream together half a cup of butter, half cup of shortening, one cup sugar, one teaspoon vanilla.

Add one egg mix well

Slowly add dry.

When blended add 2 tablespoons of milk.

Drop by spoonful onto cookie sheet. Flatten with glass bottom dipped in sugar. Bake at 375 for about 10 minutes.

I've never tried to frost them before. I just eat them as is but they are thicker sugar cookies. Not sure how you'd make them into lollipops. Here is a recipe that I just found on allrecipe that may be more what you are looking for.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Lollipop-Cookies/Detail.aspx...

Good luck!

Sarah's Cakes and Cookie Supply located in Troy, square lake and john R, has a website and their sugar cookie recipe is fabulous. It is on their websie under cookies. I would give you the website but I always google the store to find the website. But they offer cookie decorating classes and they use this recipe which tastes just like the cookies from cookies by design. I hope you find you like it as much as us. :)

Nicole