Sugar Snaps recipe

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Ingredients

½ cup butter
½ cup shortening
2 cups white sugar
4 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt

Nutrition Info

110.4 calories
carbohydrate: 14.8 g
cholesterol: 28 mg
fat: 5.4 g
fiber: 0.2 g
protein: 0.9 g
saturatedFat: 2.7 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 63.3 mg
sugar: 10 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).

  2. In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, shortening, and sugar. Beat in the egg yolks one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt, stir into the creamed mixture. Roll dough into walnut size-balls and place 2 inches apart onto an unprepared cookie sheet.

  3. Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool on wire racks.

Recipe Yield

3 to 4 dozen

Recipe Note

These sugar cookies resemble ginger snaps, hence the name, sugar snaps. The surface is crackled and the inside is hollow. They are very sweet and crispy;serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!

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