Rich Roll Cookies Recipes

THE BEST ROLLED SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.

RICH ROLL COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350.
• 2. Cream together butter and sugar add egg, vanilla, and almond extract, mix well.
• 3. Sift together flour and salt. Add in one of the optional ingredients if using.
• 4. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture and mix until just combine.
• 5. Chill for 3-4 hours.
• 6. Roll dough out to about 1/8 inch thicknes, cut into shapes and bake for 8-10 minutes (you want little to no color on them).

RICH ROLLS

Steps:

• Combine milk, butter, sugar and salt; cool to lukewarm. Soften yeast in lukewarm water; stir and combine with milk mixture.
• Add 1/2 of flour and eggs; beat well. Add enough additional flour to form a soft dough. Turn out onto floured board; knead for 10 minutes.
• Place dough in greased bowl; let rise until doubled. Shape into rolls; place on greased baking sheet. Let rise until double.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Brush tops with melted butter. Turn out onto wire racks. Serve warm.
• It's supposed to yield about 4 dozen; but I only get about 18 rolls.

VALENTINE RICH ROLLED COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar.
• Beat in egg and flavoring.
• Combine and add flour and salt.
• Chill dough 3-4 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Roll thinly and cut.
• Bake 5-7 minutes, (this is because I roll them very thin,you might want to cook them longer if you don't roll them thin -- see other peoples notes).
• Ice with either Almond or Royal Icing.
• The Almond Icing is a thin icing that you can "paint" on the cookies. I actually use paint brushes, and have fun coloring the icing.
• The Royal Icing dries hard. It can be used to "glue" tails back on kittens (cookies) and trunks on elephants. It also holds the cookies together better for shipping. I use a small metal spatula for spreading this, and use a lot of sprinkles and other adornments with this icing.
• The amounts of sugar and liquid are flexible to your own preferred consistency.