Chanukah sugar cookies
These Chanukah sugar cookies are delicious, easy to make, and use oil instead of margarine or butter!
Ingredients
- ¾ cup canola or vegetable oil
- 1 ¼ cup sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup orange juice
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
- In a large bowl or in the bowl of a mixer, combine the oil and sugar until creamy. Add in the eggs, orange juice, and vanilla extract. Mix well. Add in the salt and baking powder. Slowly pour in the flour, making sure it's incorporated before adding more. Once the dough is mixed, remove it from the bowl and divide it in half.
- Shape the dough into two disks and wrap them with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Working with 1 disk of dough at a time, remove it from the fridge and unwrap the plastic wrap. Place it on a large piece of parchment paper and roll out until the dough is about ¼" thick.
- Using cookie cutters, cut the dough into shapes. Remove the dough from around the cut out shapes, and transfer them to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Roll out the dough scraps and repeat the process. Continue with the second disk of dough as needed.
- At this point you can decorate the cookies with colored sugar if desired. If you'd like to make your own, simply add a drop of food coloring to granulated sugar and mix well. If you need help sticking the sugar to the cookie, spray the cookie with cooking spray before sprinkling on the sugar.
- Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes, or until they are lightly browned around the edges. Enjoy!