Sugar Cookies
A traditional favorite, this sugar cookie is moist and chewy and a treat to decorate
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup granulated white sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp almond extract
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 3 cups all purpose flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- In the bowl of your mixer, cream butter and sugar until smooth.
- Beat in extracts and egg.
- In a separate bowl, combine baking powder with flour and add a little at a time to the wet ingredients. The dough will be very stiff. If it becomes too stiff for your mixer, turn out the dough onto a countertop surface. Wet your hands and finish off kneading the dough by hand.
- DO NOT CHILL THE DOUGH. Divide into workable batches. Roll out onto a floured surface and cut . You want these cookies to be on the thicker side (closer to ¼ inch rather than ⅛.
- Bake at 350° for 6-8 minutes. Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.
- Decorate with favorite toppings.