Cracked Top Brown Sugar Cookies
Chewy sugar cookies with brown sugar and cream of tartar.
Servings 28 cookies
Cost 5
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour (275 grams)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 8 oz salted Land o' Lakes butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar (200 grams)
- ½ cup firmly packed light brown sugar (100 grams)
- 1 large egg
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract or just more vanilla extract
- Turbinado sugar or additional granulated sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. If you have a convection oven, use that.
- Stir flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt together in a bowl; set aside.
- With an electric mixer, beat the butter, sugar and brown sugar in a mixing bowl until very light and creamy. Add the egg and beat for about 30 seconds, then beat in the vanilla and almond extract (if using).
- Add the flour mixture and stir by hand or on low speed until it is blended in.
- Using a medium size cookie scoop, scoop up about 28 balls of dough. You can cover the dough balls and chill on dinner plates or bake right away.
- To bake right away, arrange the balls about 2 ½ inches apart on baking sheets and bake one sheet at a time for 12 minutes OR until the cookies are lightly browned and appear set.
