Cold Dough Cookies

9 ingredients
9 steps

Ingredients

  • 4 c. flour
  • 1/2 lb. butter
  • 1/2 c. Crisco
  • 1 cake yeast (large cake or 2 oz.)
  • 1 c. sour cream
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 Tbsp. sugar
  • need more sugar when rolling out

Directions

  1. 1
    Combine flour, butter and Crisco and crumb the mixture as you would for pie crust.
  2. 2
    Add egg yolks to top of flour mixture (do not mix yet; wait until ingredients are in the mix.)
  3. 3
    Add 1/2 cup sour cream to flour mixture.
  4. 4
    Add cake of yeast, 1 tablespoon sugar and vanilla to remaining sour cream in its container.
  5. 5
    Mix until yeast is dissolved.
  6. 6
    Add yeast mixture to flour mixture and stir by hand until dough is soft.
  7. 7
    Place dough in airtight container overnight (covering dough with plastic bag works well.) Divide dough into 5 parts and add flour and plenty of sugar.
  8. 8
    Roll with rolling pin to 1/8-inch thick (very thin); cut into triangles and add filling to wide section of triangle and roll as you would crescent rolls.
  9. 9
    Roll in sugar and bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350° for 20 minutes.

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