If you have been looking for a good sugar cookie recipe that is easy to use cookie cutters on this is it. This recipe makes nice, cake like cookies that cutting shapes out of is easy peasy. And they're soooo good! I've been using this recipe for as long as I can remember and they always turn out great!
Look at those sugar cookies!
They're kind of gorgeous.
Here's what you need:
1 cup (2 sticks) butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Put your cup (2 sticks) of butter in a large mixing bowl and "cream" - use a mixer to beat the butter till it's soft (only takes about 30 seconds)
Add your 1 cup of sugar gradually to butter and cream.
By gradually, I always do 1/4 at a time.
When you're done, it will look like this.
Add your 2 eggs, 1 tbsp milk and 1 tsp vanilla to your butter and sugar and mix well.
In a separate bowl, sift together your 3 cups flour and 3 tsp baking powder. I use a fork - place it on your flour (as shown below) and push down, going all the way around the bowl several times. Then toss and mix so that the flour is "fine" and not clumpy.
Now it's time to mix your flour & baking powder with your butter mixture. Do this gradually - again 1/4 at a time.
Mix well.
This is what it will look like.
****Refrigerate your dough for 10 minutes****
Time to roll out the dough!
Put some flour on your counter and coat your rolling pin with flour.
Dip your hands in flour to coat them and then remove your dough from the bowl and place on your floured surface.
Roll dough out to about 1/4" thickness and use cookie cutters to cut shapes.
You can also just make round cookies by forming with your hands.
After cutting shapes, remix dough together and roll out again.
Continue until you have used all your dough.
Dip a paper towel in shortening and wipe it on a cookie sheet.
Place your shapes on the cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
The amount of time will depend on how thick you make your dough.
Once again, I usually take mine out just a teeny tiny bit early.
Use a spatula to remove cookies from cookie sheet and place on a wire rack to cool.
These are great plain, but you can frost them or decorate with colored sugar.
Aren't they pretty?
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