Just Desserts: Sugar Cookies

There's nothing like a sugar cookie. It can be really plain, or you can jazz it up with sprinkles or icing. Instead of butter, these cookies use vegetable oil.

Sugar Cookies (makes 30-40 2.5 inch cookies)

• 2.5 cups all purpose flour
• 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
• 1 cup sugar
  
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• Extra sugar for sprinkling

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and pre-heat the oven to 375.

Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Set aside.

Combine and blend the sugar and vegetable oil. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg. Add the vanilla.

Mix in the flour mixture with the sugar mixture, making sure they are well combined.

Form the dough into .5 inch drops with tablespoons and place them on the cookie sheet, about 1 inch apart. Sprinkle the drops with sugar. You have the option here to make cinnamon sugar and use that instead of plain sugar. The brown cookies below are sprinkled with cinnamon sugar.



Bake the cookies for about 11 minutes, until they are brown around the edges.

Once I ran out of vegetable oil and made these cookies with olive oil. They were like grown up sugar cookies and tasted great with coffee or tea. Give it a try.