Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies

Normally I associate sugar cookies with Christmas – but these cookies are fantastic year ’round! They’re crispy, melt in your mouth marvels. Finish them off with some red colored sugar, and they’d be perfect for Valentine’s Day!

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar (plus more to roll the cookies in)
• 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 large egg
• 2 1/3 cups flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

1. With an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugars until light and fluffy, then add the vegetable oil.
2. Beat in the extracts and the egg.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt. Add it to the wet ingredients until just combined. Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes.
4. Preheat oven to 350º. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
5. Measure out 2 teaspoons of dough, roll into a ball and coat with granulated sugar, and place on baking sheet. Flatten the dough with a glass – I used a potato masher.
6. Bake for 9 to 12 minutes. After removing cookies from the oven, sprinkle a little more sugar on the warm cookies. Makes approximately 3 dozen cookies.