Food Nutrition Facts

Sugar cookies

Sugar cookie is typically made from wheat flour/all purpose flour, sugar, eggs, a leavening agent (baking powder), salt to taste, vinegar, milk and vanilla essence. Sugar cookie is sometimes called "Nazareth Sugar Cookie" because German Protestants who settled in the Nazareth area of Pennsylvania, US perfected the recipe of "sugar cookies". Sugar cookies are made from the dough, which is rolled out and then cut into pieces as per likings. This is in contrast with the regular cookies where the dough is put into the cookie leaves directly which are baked in round form. However, sugar cookies are topped with sugar sprinkles or icing. The dough is then baked until a crisp cookie is formed. Some persons like sugar cookies to be soft and chewy.
Although Sugar cookies are now manufactured in big factories, still homemade recipes of sugar cookies are very much popular and it is made in many households.

Benefits of eating sugar cookies

Good to taste
Excellent to be used as a snack

Risk

There is as such no risk taking Sugar cookies. Just to care about one’s daily intake of calories.

Suggestion

Sugar cookies are a good source of carbohydrate. So, if you are a patient of type-II diabetes, if you feel like hypoglycemic, you can have a couple of cookies.

Recommended daily allowance

Depending upon the total calorie intake, you can have 2-3 standard sized sugar cookies daily.