Sugar Cookie Recipes For Your Family

Baking sugar cookie recipes with any or all of your children is a naturally fun activity. And eating it is much more a heaven, especially if the cookie you've made, is a chocolate chip cookie. Nowadays, there's a lot of parent that are baking chocolate cookies with their kids. Mainly because the whole family loves it. But more importantly, baking with children is a great way to spend time with them and to teach them things at the same time you're all having fun.

Cookies are portable, sweet and fun to make. They can be made in stages if time is tight-prepare the dough in the evening and bake them the next morning. Older children can read the recipe and direct adults on what steps to take. Small children can roll the dough into balls and flatten it with a fork, similar to making peanut butter cookies. There's enough fun to go around for everyone. But to be sure of, just choose some basic sugar cookie recipes, so that everyone can help in the process of baking.

What makes your soft sugar cookie recipes even better is to add corn starch to the dough. In fact, many recipes for baked goods from the early 20th century used corn starch in conjunction with flour. Bakers found very early on that corn starch gave biscuits, muffins, cakes, shortcakes, pie crusts and most notably cookies a finer texture and more tender crumb when compared to recipes using flour alone.

Here's one of those easy cookie recipes for Lemon Shortbread Cookies that's simple and delicious and should make for a batch of family fun.

Lemon Shortbread Cookies Ingredients:
11/3 cups Argo or Kingsford's Corn Starch
2 cups butter or margarine
2/3 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
Makes six dozen

Preheat the oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, beat butter until softened. Add powdered sugar, beat until well combined. Add lemon peel and vanilla; beat well. In a medium bowl, stir together flour and corn starch; add to mixture and beat well.

Roll dough into 1-inch balls (kids will love this). Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Press tines of a fork atop each ball to make subtle design. Bake about 15 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned. Cool on wire racks.