Pre-heat your oven to 350☏ while you're waiting.Īfter an hour, roll up the dough into balls and place about 2' apart on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. The dough is sort of sticky if you choose to skip this step. I like the dough to rest in the fridge wrapped in saran for at least an hour. Now this step isn't mandatory, but I like to do it, because it really helps with the flavor and with handling the dough in my opinion. It took me about thirty seconds of mixing. The flour should be absorbed, but don't over do it. Mix this on low to start until it's just combined. No need to sift, but combine the flour, salt, baking powder all in one and then dump it into the mixture. Lighter in color, more moist, but still sort of lumpy.

Now put in the sour cream and give it another mix on medium for about a minute. Should take no more than two minutes on medium. Now add in the egg/vanilla mixture and mix until the egg is absorbed. Mixture should look like this afterwards. To start, combine the softened butter and sugar together and mix on medium low to medium for about 3-5 minutes until light and fluffy. Cookie Dough: To make it easier, I combined the egg, vanilla, lemon juice and zest together. That's why when I saw the opportunity to recreate one of my favorite childhood cookies, I jumped at the chance. I'm not a fan of preservatives and the long paragraph of ingredients. I never tasted those things as a child, but being semi-adult-ish now, I care about what I put into my body. Many claim they're disgusting and tastes like chalk. Which is understandable, considering that's what's in them. Many claim that these taste like preservatives. As much as my brothers and I loved these, many people equally hate these cookies. I know I had a unrefined palate at ten years old, but still I liked them none the less.

They tasted what they were supposed to taste like. My mom would always pick them up when we would go on our shopping trips and my brothers and I would scarf them down right when we got home. Now, like many of you I grew up on these cookies. There is a lesser known debate going on, but the passion is just as strong on this one. Do you put ketchup on hot dogs? Do you split an Oreo or just bite right into them? Can you use a spoon to twirl spaghetti? Is pecan pronounced 'pick-ahn' or 'pee-can?' See what I mean? There are so many of these types of debates going on in the food world. There are so many questions where people just can't seem to agree. The great food debates of the world are raging and passionate.

The Sugar Babies by O.M. Faye