The Best Easy Sugar Cookies

This straightforward Sugar Cookie recipe is the right year-round vacation cookie!

A easy combination of butter, sugar, and flour with a number of additions, these sugar cookies bake up completely each time. They maintain their form, are the right texture, and have a scrumptious buttery vanilla style.

Pair them with our favourite sugar cookie icing to make festive cookies for any event!

Elements for Sugar Cookies

Easy components, a mushy and chewy texture, and nice taste make this the very best sugar cookie recipe.

• Sugar – This sugar cookie recipe makes use of common granulated sugar for sweetness and texture.
• Butter – I nearly at all times use unsalted butter in baking and add my very own salt to get the very best taste.
• Flour – All-purpose flour brings all the things collectively.
• Egg – Egg helps bind all the things collectively.
• Different – Vanilla provides taste, whereas baking powder helps obtain the right texture. Add ½ teaspoon of almond extract if you happen to’d like.

Learn how to Make Sugar Cookies

I skip the parchment paper or silicone mat for this recipe. I discover they maintain their form greatest on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Actually, actually good sugar cookies are ones which can be uniformly combined, formed, and baked.

1. Mix butter and sugar till fluffy per the recipe under.
2. Combine in an egg. Add dry components and blend, scraping the perimeters as wanted.
3. Chill dough for a number of hours. Roll and lower with cookie cutters to match the event!

Sugar cookies look greatest when they’re baked simply till very evenly browned on the perimeters.

Ideas for The Finest Sugar Cookies

• Elements ought to be at room temperature (together with the butter and the egg) earlier than starting.
• It’s IMPORTANT to flour is measured correctly. Keep away from utilizing a measuring cup to scoop the flour or it could possibly packs the flour leading to a dry dough. As a substitute, evenly spoon the flour into the measuring up and use the straight fringe of the again of a knife to stage it.
• Roll the dough on a evenly floured floor to 1/4″ thickness.  When rolling the dough, if it will get too mushy, put it within the fridge for a couple of minutes. Don’t add an excessive amount of flour when rolling the dough.
• Don’t skip chilling the dough or the cookies will unfold and never maintain their form.
• If baking in batches, don’t place new batches on a heat cookie sheet. This may trigger the dough to unfold.
• If the dough appears powdery or isn’t holding collectively, it’s not combined sufficient. Proceed mixing (for as much as 5 minutes extra), and the dough will maintain collectively. Picture under.

Learn how to Embellish Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookies are one of the crucial well-liked cookie recipes for adorning. Be at liberty to have enjoyable with cookie cutters, stamped rolling pins or just lower them into circles.

To make Christmas sugar cookies, or any time of yr cut-out cookies, guarantee they’re utterly cooled on a wire rack earlier than adorning (or the icing will soften).

You’ll be able to enhance with mushy frostings like buttercream and elaborations, however our favourite is to make use of a easy sugar cookie icing that finishes shiny and agency.

Another choice is to soften chocolate chips and dip half of every cookie.

As soon as embellished, retailer cookies in an hermetic container.

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Simple Sugar Cookies

Nothing says year-round vacation enjoyable like baking straightforward sugar cookies and adorning them with household and pals.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook dinner Time 9 minutes

Chill Time 4 hours

Complete Time 4 hours 24 minutes

• Mix flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl and put aside.

• Place butter and sugar in a bowl and blend with a handmixer (or stand mixer) on medium velocity till fluffy, about 3-4 minutes.

• Add egg and vanilla. Combine till nicely mixed and easy.

• Add the flour combination, just a little bit at a time, with the mixer on low till the flour is integrated. Proceed mixing till the dough holds collectively, as much as 5 minutes.

• Divide the dough in half, and kind every half right into a 5-inch disk. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill the dough for two hours or in a single day.

• Preheat oven to 375°F. Whereas the oven is preheating, take away the dough from the fridge (if it has been within the fridge in a single day, it might want to take a seat out quarter-hour earlier than rolling).

• Sprinkle the floor with a lightweight dusting of powdered sugar or flour to maintain the dough from sticking. With a rolling pin, roll the dough to ¼” thickness (you don’t need it to be too skinny) and lower shapes with cookie cutters.

• Place the sugar cookies 1-inch aside on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes or simply till cookies start to brown on the perimeters.

• Cool for two minutes on the cookie sheet, switch to a cooling rack, and funky utterly earlier than adorning.

• As soon as cooled, enhance with sugar cookie icing.

TROUBLESHOOTING: If the dough appears to be powdery or not holding collectively, proceed mixing it. If utilizing a stand mixer, guarantee you’re utilizing the paddles (and never the wire whisk attachment). As you proceed beating, the combination will maintain collectively and kind a dough. 

• Elements ought to be at room temperature (together with the butter and the egg) earlier than starting.
• It’s IMPORTANT to measure the flour accurately. Keep away from utilizing a measuring cup to scoop the flour. As a substitute, evenly spoon the flour into the measuring up and use the straight fringe of the again of a knife to stage it.
• Roll the dough to 1/4″ thickness, so it bakes correctly.  When rolling the dough, if it will get too mushy, put it within the fridge for a couple of minutes. Don’t add an excessive amount of flour when rolling the dough.
• Don’t skip chilling the dough, or the cookies will unfold and never maintain their form.
• If baking in batches, don’t place new batches on a heat cookie sheet. This may trigger the dough to unfold.
• If the dough appears powdery or isn’t holding collectively, it’s not combined sufficient. Proceed mixing (for as much as 5 minutes extra), and the dough will maintain collectively. 

Energy: 80 | Carbohydrates: 10g | Fats: 4g | Saturated Fats: 2g | Ldl cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 47mg | Potassium: 21mg | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 125IU | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 0.4mg

Diet data offered is an estimate and can differ based mostly on cooking strategies and types of components used.

Course Cookies, Dessert

Delicacies American

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