Soft, Chewy and Fluffy Sugar cookies EXPERIMENT 1

Today I baked up some
snicker-doodles and white
chocolate chip + cranberry
sugar cookies. Pepperidge
farm has these really soft
snicker doodle cookies.
So I thought I would try
out my own version.











I chose the following recipe to Modify:

OLD FASHIONED SOFT SUGAR COOKIES

from Cooks.com

Sift together in large bowl:


3 1/4 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Add:
1/2 cup soft butter1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla or nutmeg extract
Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes.

Add:
1/2 cup thick sour cream to he sifted flour mixture.
Preheat oven to 375-400F degrees. Beat at low speed until well blended (1 1/2 minutes). Roll out lightly on floured board to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut and sprinkle with sugar. Put on prepared cookie sheet. Dot a raisin in the middle and bake about 12 minutes at 375-400 degrees.

We didn't have any sour cream so I used vanilla flavored yogurt instead. (I would stick to the sour cream though. The yogurt added a strange flavor to the cookies.) I also added 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.

To make the cookies snickerdoodles:

Follow the recipie for sugar cookies above. Roll out the cookie dough into a log. Cut the log in half and set one of the halves aside. Cut out the cookies into 1 inch thick rounds. Flatten them out with your hands. Don't over do it though, you may flatten out the air bubbles in the dough. Butter or cook spray a generously a sheet of parchment paper. Next, sift an even layer of powered sugar on the sheet. Neatly lay out your flattened raw cookies on the sheet.

In a bowl I combine 1 cup of sugar and 2 tablespoons of cinnamon. With a sifter, sift an even layer of the cinnamon sugar mixture over the raw cookies. Next, grease your cookie sheet for baking. Neatly lay out the cookies one inch apart on your baking cookie sheet. Next in a circular motion with your finger, lightly press down the cinnamon sugar mixture on the raw cookies. Lastly, sift a light sprinkle of cinnamon over the batch. Bake according to directions. The cookes will be done when the cookies have cracked and are fluffy. For my oven, it took about 12 to 15 mins to bake. With the 1st batch in the oven, I cleaned my cooking area off.

Fluffy White chocolate & cranberry cookies

Follow the recipie for sugar cookies above.Knead in 1/2 cup of white chocolate, pinch of orange zest and 1/2 cup of dried cranberries to the other half of cookie dough you set aside earlier. Follow the directions above for baking.

Here's a suggestion:Sprinkle some granulated sugar on top before
baking for a mouth watering shimmery look.

For an adult treat, have some white chocolate milk liqueur with the cookies. See below for recipe.

Le's white chocolate milk liqueur

Chill tall glass in the freezer for at least 30mins.

When the glass has chilled:
Fill a shaker half way with ice.
Next, add in 1 cup of milk
1 shot of Godiva White Chocolate liqueur
Splash of heavy whipping cream
Shake over your shoulder.
Pour contents into chilled glass.

(optional) Garnish drink with whipped cream and sprinkle cinnamon over the top.

Enjoy*