Sensational Sugar Cookies

This wonderful, soft sugar cookie recipe came from my mother in law. They melt in your mouth and are delicious. We make them for almost every holiday and use different colored sugar to press them flat. For example red and green sugar at Christmas and orange sugar at Halloween.

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup salad oil
1 cup sugar
1 cup powdered sugar
2 eggs
4 ¼ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla

Cream butter, oil and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Combine dry ingredients and mix well with creamed sugars. Chill dough for one hour.

Roll dough into balls the size of a walnut and place on cookie sheet 2 inches apart. Press each cookie flat with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar. To get sugar to adhere to glass lightly grease bottom of glass by rubbing across cookie dough.

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 – 12 minutes or until lightly browned.

Makes about 6 dozen.

Soft Caramels

Sorry I have been a little slow on my posts lately  -  I have been busy preparing for our annual Christmas Party and this is a recipe I make every year.  It came from my mother in law and they are a scrumptious candy to share  You do need a thermometer to make sure they get to the right temperature and patience to wait for them to cook!

½ pound butter

1 pound light brown sugar

1 cup light karo syrup

1 16 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk

Melt butter in heavy saucepan over medium high heat.  Add brown sugar and stir until it dissolves.  Add karo syrup and sweetened condensed milk.  Stir constantly until candy reaches 238 degrees on a candy thermometer.

Pour on greased cookie sheet and cool.  Cut into one inch squares and wrap in wax paper.  Store in the refrigerator.

Cheese Puffs

This would make a nice little snack on a snowy day.  It is so simple that it only has three ingredients.

1/4 pound softened butter
8 ounces of shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1 cup of flour

Mix all ingredients with hands and roll into one inch balls.  Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 425 degrees for ten minutes.

Enjoy!