Sugar Cookies

Name: How to cook Sugar Cookies - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 dozen
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

kokomayla

Sugar Cookies

Every year around Christmas season with my family, we decorate these cookies. You'll get sick of decorating them by nights end because the recipe yields about 6 dozen! But they're really good cookies if I say so myself!! Thanks to my photographer hubby Mike to always make a nice picture out of something so simple!

Ingredient

Food ration :

6 dozen

Cooking time :

2 hours roughly

1 cup

sugar

1 cup

butter or margarine, softened

3 tablespoons

milk

1 teaspoon

vanilla

egg

3 cups

all-purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons

baking powder

1/2 teaspoon

salt

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

In a big mixing bowl, combine the sugar, butter, milk, vanilla and egg until well blended. I use my KitchenAid mixer with paddle attachment to save time, but you can also use a hand mixer or good old mixing spoon and elbow grease!

* Step 2

Add flour, baking powder and salt, again mix well. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for one hour for easier handling. The dough will be super soft.

* Step 3

Heat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. On a lightly floured surface, roll out 1/3 dough at a time to 1/8 inch thickness. Keep the rest of the dough refrigerated. Cut the rolled dough with floured cookie cutters. Place on ungreased cookie sheet about 1 inch apart. (At this point, if you don't want to decorate your cookies afterwards, you can just sprinkle the cookies with sugar before baking).

* Step 4

Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 5-9 minutes. My oven runs hot, so it's usually only 5 minutes for me. You're looking for the edges only to get a bit of golden light brown color. Immediately remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely before decorating with icing.

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