I made soem cookies yesterday with the kids and we used Penny's recipe and they came out so good!! I love that you don't need to wait for it to chill to use it. We used Antonia's icing and it worked so nicely.. I thinned it out and just let them have at it.. I shold have taken some pictures as they were too cute. I have a zipper bag full of the icing so I know we'll make more.. I'll take pics then. I want to give the NFSC recipe a try too just to experiment.

Anyone have a good chocolate sugar cookie recipe?? Could I add some dutch process cocoa powder to this recipe and have good results?

TIA!!

I've added cocoa to the recipe before and it turned it out fine. You could also use this recipe:

http://www.kitchengifts.com/chocolatecookies.html

It's also good. It's often referred to as the chocolate NFSC.

Thanks so much! We'll give it a try!

What is Penny's recipe?

I can't find it when I did a search-

Thanks

I love Penny's too, I havent' altered it yet though, I was wondering that though. But a month ago I asked on here for a chocolate rolled cookie recipe and someone (I wish I could remember who!) told me to use the Wilton recipe in the yearbook and add melted baking chocolate to it. When I looked up the recipe in the yearbook the chocolate version is in there too. It's like 3 oz melted unsweetened chocolate. I made 7 dozen of them for wedding cookies and everyone loved them, and they barely spread at all.

This link will take you to Penny's recipe..

http://www.texasmonthly.com/mag/issues/2000-12-01/statefare.php

Does Penny have a web site?

Does anyone know who Penny is?? I have to try this recipe, but I always like to know about the author.

All I know is her name is Penny McConnell. She has a bakery, Penny's Pastries, in Austin, TX. You can do a google search.

Is Penny's recipe better than NFSC? Does it work as well? Taste as good? Does it last as long since there is cream in it? Does one batch make the same amount as NFSC? Sorry for the million questions....

Penny's recipe is the best!
you know you can use whole milk or half and half instead of cream and you can use half butter and half margarine also. Also you can omit the baking powder to help them stay flat.
Penny's is my favorite recipe since I saw here demo a couple of years ago and it has never let me down.
Penny also has book out . I think it 's called Cookie Stories

I'm trying this soon! It sounds great!

Read the recipe.....does the glaze have to be put on it even if you are using the icing???? Would really like to try this recipe this afternoon.....thanks....

No.. if you are going to ice the cookies with a royal icing or something like that you don't need to glaze them too. You don't need to glaze or ice them at all if you don't want to.

I am definitely going to try omitting the baking powder because they do puff up and spread and you lose some of the definition of your cookie.. but the texture is so nice.. If you leave out the baking powder are they really hard?

When you bake the cookies w/o the baking powder you need to watch and not over bake them, but if you keep them air tight the are usually fine. I also run a spatula or a small rolling pin over the cookies when I first remove them from the oven to make sure the top is flat especially when I use the baking powder.