Sugar Cookies
Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
Servings: 4
Calories: 507kcal
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients Sugar Cookies Recipe
- 1 1/2 cup All-Purpose Flour Leveled
- 2 tbsp All-Purpose Flour for rolling
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt
Dry Ingredients Sugar Cookies Recipe
- 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter
- 1/2 cup White Sugar
- 1 1/2 tbsp Vanilla Extract or 3/4 Banana Extract and 3/4 Coconut Extract
- 1/2 Egg
Instructions
- Firstly, preheat oven to 350°F.
- In the first bowl, cream unsalted butter, white sugar, and vanilla extract for about two minutes using an electric mixer.
- Mix half an egg to the creamed sugar mixture for about one minute, then set the bowl aside.
- In the second bowl, mix all the dry ingredients (all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder).
- Fold the dry mixture into the wet mixture – don’t over mix or incorporate air into the mixture.
- Using a rolling pin roll cookies about 1/8 to 1/4 thick.
- Use your favorite set of cookie cutters to create the cookies.
- Using a metal spatula and fingers carefully place cookies on the cookie baking tray.
- Bake at 350°F for 7 to 8 minutes.
- Allow the cookies to finish baking for about 5 minutes after removing the cookie tray from the oven.
- After the cookies are done baking immediately transfer cookies to a cooling rack to avoid sweaty, soggy cookies.