Usually 7 to 10 minutes depending on the size of the cookie.
Did you use soft margarine, stick butter always works best for me.
In most sugar cookies the main ingredient is flour. The second ingredient would be sugar. There must be more flour than sugar or the cookies would not bake very well.
Bake them for a long time at a low temperature, but if something happens and they come out cruchy then there is a way to fix that. Put your batch of cookies into a ziploc bag with a slice of bread. The bread absorbs all of the excess moisture, which keeps the cookies soft. Happy Baking!
Keep the cookies locked in seal-tight baggy or container. It also helps to make with good ingredients, and not with the cheap stuff you buy at store. Last but not least, not burning the cookies helps them last a lot longer as well. :)
You are baking them too long. Pull them out of the oven just before they look brown, they will cool and still be soft. you will need to practice to get the time right....
== == Not sure, but perhaps it is because sugar cookies have fewer ingredients, and the baking powder acts faster. More important than "Why?" is that you recognize the difference in baking times. Otherwise, you would end up with very hard sugar cookies.....or very soft hockey pucks.
Until they're soft when you squeeze them
That depends on how soft you like your cookies.
Generally this doesn't work very well, as it affects the way the dough mixes with the butter. The butter should be soft, but not liquid.
Bake the cookies for less time than recommended on the package or in the recipe. Shorten the baking time as much as you like according to your texture preference. Packaged cookie dough is usually reduced by 6-8 minutes. Homemade recipes usually require at least ten minutes off the suggested baking time.
Because the crisp cookies will absorb moisture from the soft ones - and lose their crispness. Cookies should be stored in an air-tight container.
Because the crisp cookies will absorb moisture from the soft ones - and lose their crispness. Cookies should be stored in an air-tight container.