Cracked Sugar Cookies

Made these sugar cookies waaaaay back for the 4th of July to take to the lake and give to our camping neighbors (hence the red, white, and blue sprinkles!) but I've made twice since then without sprinkles because they are so good everyone wants more hahaha. Dave says they remind him of shortbread cookies, I'm assuming that's because of the lack of egg whites (?), and oddly enough the older the cookies get the more they taste like shortbread and the better he likes them. He wanted to give the neighbors another baggie of them last weekend and I said no way, they are like 3 weeks old at this point! He argued that they are still great but I'm not giving out old cookies...having said that - if you want a cookie that tastes great fresh or weeks old, you're going to love this one LOL. 

• 2 1/2 cup flour
• 1 t. baking soda
• 1/2 t. cream of tartar
• 1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened
• 1 1/4 cup sugar
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 t. vanilla

Sift 1st 3 together and set aside. 

Beat butter and sugar together until fluffy. Beat in yolks and vanilla. Gradually add flour mixture in 4 parts, until well blended.

Shape into tablespoon sized balls (I use my small cookie scoop), put on greased cookies sheet (or line sheets with parchment paper) and do not flatten. Bake at 350' for approx 8-10 minutes.

makes 36 cookies (note: the recipe says it makes 36 but using my small scoop I get a lot more, more like 48)

                             

note: I added sprinkles to the batter to make them 'patriotic' - you could add other colors and shapes if you want, or just leave them as plain old white yummy sugar cookies. Mmmm, you could frost too! 

these are slightly puffy when you pull out of oven, they'll flatten as they cool

Obviously it took me a while to get around posting these, now it's almost time for black and orange sprinkles for Halloween, brown and yellow for Thanksgiving, red and green for Christmas! See, these cookies are perfect all year 'round ;)