My Grandmas Scotch Cookies

[Angela]

With the kids I look after a favourite is always Scotch Cookies. Its an easy recipe and after everything's mixed the kids can make the dough in there favourite shapes. This is my grandmother's recipe and a Christmas favourite in our house.

1/2 cup of corn starch
1/2 cup of icing sugar
1 cup of flour
3/4 cup of butter

Mix everything together in that order. The ingredients may seem dry at first but keep mixing it will blend into a dough. I find its easiest to mix it by just getting your hands in the bowl and blending it by hand.
When it's kids making the shapes out of the dough, I like to put the dough in the fridge for a half hour or so. I find it just helps it keep it's shape better when the kids are rolling it around.
This recipe doubles really well too if you want to make a bigger batch. Also no raw eggs. I don't know if I would recommend eating the dough raw, it's also not going to hurt anyone either if a little one tries it.

 

[cmckinney01]

Thanks for sharing a great recipe. I'm not a fan of complicated recipes; I try to keep my baking as simple as possible. This one sounds pretty easy and straightforward - not to mention delicious.

 

[Angela]

Cmckinney I like uncomplicated recipes too. I find usually if a recipe is too complicated it has a lot ingredients that I don't have. I'll make something special every now and then but usually a recipe that's straight forward is fun, easy and uses ingredients that I have on hand and I like that This one is easy. I make about 100 of these every Christmas for family and they always seem to come out.

 

[Angelica Gapit]

Grandma's cookies will and will always have the best recipes on earth. And it's wonderful that you shared your grandmother's recipe with us.

I tried out this recipe last night, and I'll probably try this out again during the holidays this year.

Thank you for this!