Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2021
Our recipe for Chewy Sugar Cookies come together quickly and uses a combination of butter and vegetable oil to produce a chewy texture that lasts for days. We already have a few flavor variations for the cookie, but we couldn't resist adding another.
For optimal chewiness, we adjusted the fat in our sugar cookie recipe until it hit a ratio of approximately 1 part saturated fat (butter) to 3 parts unsaturated fat (vegetable oil). Instead of creaming the fat and sugar, we whisked them tog...