So Worth Another Mile on the Treadmill!

From the April 2007 issue of Everyday Food, page 162. These are as big as the bakery ones and taste much better! Though Martha's must have been monster-sized 10, I was able to get 20 4" ones, so each cookie was not 315 calories as stated in the nutrition index...yikes! What's cool though is the 1/4 cup sour cream in the ingredients. I used "lite," so hopefully it knocked the fat and calories further off the scale.

GIANT SUGAR COOKIES

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature

1 1/2 cups sugar, plus more for sprinking

1 large egg

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1/4 cup sour cream

Preheat oven to 350. In medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda, set aside. Using an electric mixer on medium-high, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 2-4 minutes. Add egg and vanilla; beat well to combine. With mixer on low, add half the flour mixture, followed by sour cream, then remaining flour mixture; mix just until smooth. Drop mounds of dough, each equal to about 3 tablespoons, 3-4 inches apart onto two ungreased baking sheets. Sprinkle with sugar (I used colored and at the halfway sheet-switching point). Bake until edges of cookies are just firm and tops are barely beginning to brown, 20-25 minutes, rotating sheets once halfway through. Transfer cookies to rack to cool.