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.
