Every family has recipes that they pass down. In my family, it's my great grandma's hanukkah cookie recipe. These hannukah sugar cookies are easy to make, and a great holiday gift. And if you want to make these for a different holiday, use the same cookie recipe and different shape cookie cutters. Enjoy!
Hanukkah Cookies
- Prep Time:1 hr 20 mins
- Cook Time:9 mins
- Total Time:1 hr 29 mins
- Servings:3
- Easy
- 2 cups sifted flour
- 1.5 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg and orange juice to make 1/3 cup
- Hanukkah cookies cutters or any shape that you would like
Ingredients
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Step 1
Sift flour.
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Step 2
Combine baking powder and salt with flour.
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Step 3
Add oil to flour mixture and mix with a fork.
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Step 4
Crack an egg into a liquid measuring cup, and pour in orange juice until the mixture equals 1/3 of a cup.
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Step 5
In a seperate bowl, beat sugar, vanilla and egg until light and fluffy.
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Step 6
Stir wet mixture into flour mixture. Chill for one hour (this is part of the prep time).
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Step 7
Roll dough out onto floured surface and use cookie cutters.
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Step 8
Optional: place one chocolate chip in each cookie before baking.
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Step 9
Bake for 9 minutes at 400°F.
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Step 10
Enjoy!