Vanilla Dreams

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking ammonia
• 1/4 cup coarse crystallized sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 300 degrees. lightly grease two baking sheets.
• 2 beat together the sugar, butter, salt and vanilla.
• 3 add the flour and baker's ammonia and beat for up to 5 minutes, until the dough comes together. it will seem quite dry at first, but keep beating, eventually it will clump up and become cohesive.
• 4 break off pieces of dough about the size of a large gumball. roll them into balls, then roll them in coarse sugar.
• 5 put them on the prepared baking sheets, and use the bottom of a glass to flatten them to about 1/4" thick.
• 6 bake the cookies for 25 to 30 minutes, until they are a very light golden brown around the edges.
• 7 remove them from oven and transfer to a rack to cool.