Stir and Drop Sugar Cookies

Prep 40 min
Total 40 min
Servings 48

When you're short on time but still want homemade cookies, make a no-nonsense no-roll sugar cookie with all the sweet flavor of traditional rolled cookies. MORE+ LESS-

By Betty Crocker Kitchens

Updated August 17, 2017

Make with

Gold Medal Flour

Ingredients

3/4

cup sugar

2/3

cup vegetable oil

teaspoons baking powder

teaspoons vanilla

1/2

teaspoon salt

eggs

cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour

Additional sugar, if desired

Red and green fruit-flavored gelatins, if desired

Steps

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1

Heat oven to 400°F. In large bowl, mix 3/4 cup sugar, the oil, baking powder, vanilla, salt and eggs with spoon. Stir in flour.
2

Drop dough by teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Press bottom of glass onto dough to grease, then dip into additional sugar; press on balls until 1/4-inch thickness. Dip bottom of glass onto a wet paper towel, then dip into dry gelatin; press onto dough. Repeat until desired color appears.
3

Bake 8 to 10 minutes until light brown. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.

Expert Tips

Keep cookies chewy and soft by storing them tightly covered. Resealable plastic bags, plastic food containers with tight-fitting lids and metal tins work best.

Nutrition Information

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cookie

Calories: 60
Calories from Fat: 25

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 3g; 0%
Saturated Fat 1g 0%
Cholesterol: 10mg; 0%
Sodium: 45mg; 0%
Total Carbohydrate: 7g; 0%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Protein: 1g

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 0%; 0%
Vitamin C: 0%; 0%
Calcium: 0%; 0%
Iron: 2%; 2%

Exchanges:

1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

More About This Recipe

You’ll feel like a real smart cookie when you’ve got a whole batch of sugar cookies baked and decorated in only 40 minutes. That’s why this recipe is a must-have for busy scratch bakers. The secret is skipping the rolling pin altogether in favor of a method from Betty’s top-rated No-Roll Sugar Cookies to get them on the cookie sheet faster, where the real fun begins. Crazy as it may sound, dry gelatin is a quick trick for adding a splash of color to your sugar cookies. Not only that, but this trick to make your cookies go from ho-hum to merry and bright will make you or your little one feel like a mad scientist. There’s a time to get sticky mixing up homemade frosting and a time when you don't mind sweeping sprinkles off the kitchen floor, but if now’s just not that time, don’t fret! Simply mix up a batch of these homemade cookies and call it a day. For your next baking project, Betty’s got all the sugar cookie recipes anyone could ever want, plus smart tips for baking perfect sugar cookies