How to make Grandma’s Surprise Christmas Cookies Recipe

These cookies were a complete surprise since I was following a recipe I had never made, but my Grandma made them every year according to my mom. She would seek out the Wesson butter flavored oil just to make these cookies. Sadly I was a little late to the shopping game this year and my store had sold out of the only butter flavor oil I knew of – it wasn’t Wesson’s brand. So I went out on a whim and decided to try to just use melted butter in it’s place. I really didn’t know if I was going to end up with butter cookies or sugar cookies or something that doesn’t taste like a cookie at all!

I read and read on the internet about replacing butter for oil and oil for butter. I came up to no conclusions other than I should try melted butter instead of softened butter. I went ahead and melted a cup of butter and then used 2/3 cup of melted butter in place of the 2/3 cup of Wesson butter flavored oil. I did a whole cup because I wasn’t sure if I would lose any volume in melting. I did spill a little so this method worked out great for me! I realized later I possibly could have used oil and then add some butter extract – which I did have on hand! Haha, oh well, I’ll try it out next time!

Also, another fun surprise I wasn’t aware that was in store for me is on the recipe card she wrote, “t” which I assumed would be tablespoon, but when I went to add the salt, it seemed to be too much. SOO “t” in this recipe is definitely teaspoon haha. In retrospect she probably would have capitalized the T if it was for Tablespoon. So please note, I did use a whole tablespoon for the vanilla instead of teaspoon, except I do recall only doing one instead of two so maybe that made it okay?

So once the recipe is all mixed together I did use a glass to flatten the rounded globs of dough with sugar. I will also recommend to follow her advice and do rounded TEASPOONS – she is laughing at me up in Heaven for sure. I did globs that were closer to a tablespoon or more and the cookies might have turned out huge.

So I did bake them at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 8 minutes. They turned out giant and puffy! Now I just had to wait for them to cool down and see if they tasted like a cookie!

GREAT NEWS! Despite changing a few ingredients, grandma’s surprise Christmas Cookies turned out to be fluffy sugar tasting cookies! I do wonder if they were suppose to taste more like butter cookies? But the softness and then the sugar pressed on the top really reminded more more of a sugar cookie. Either way, they were great! I’ll write the recipe below as I made these! Mistakes and all!

So I might have taken the surprise out for you but these cookies will make a great addition to any cookie tin!

xoxo
-Robin