You are here: Home » Recipes » No-Roll Sugar Cookies No-Roll Sugar Cookies Recipe by American Profile Yield 4 1/2 dozens PrintEmail "Grandma Abbott always had her wafer-thin sugar cookies waiting for us in the brightly colored old tin sitting in the back pantry on the farm. She raised eight children, babysat nine grandchildren and fed many a laborer in her big farm kitchen. The tin was never empty." Ingredients 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar6 tablespoons granulated sugar1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter, softened2 eggs3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract Instructions Preheat oven to 350F. Cream together sugars and butter with a mixer at medium speed. Add eggs and mix well. Add flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and vanilla; mix well. Roll dough into walnut-size balls. Place on an ungreased baking sheet. Flatten with the bottom of a glass that has been dipped in sugar. Bake about 10 minutes, until light golden. Recipe by Mary Newton, Winterset, Iowa