Sugar Cookies (cutter). the perfect sugar cookie recipe for cookie cutters Sugar cookies just scream "CHRISTMAS" to me, yet it took me years of trying before I found the perfect sugar cookie recipe. You'd think that it would be easy to find the right combination of sugar & flour to make great cookies - and you'd be right. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
It's delicious and keeps the shape of whatever cookie cutter you use.
Sugar cookies used to be Christmas only for us, and now we use them all year long.
A word about the butter, we use Sweet Cream Salted Butter when we are baking and I think it tastes great with.
You can cook Sugar Cookies (cutter) using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Sugar Cookies (cutter)
- You need 3 1/2 cup of All Purpose Flour.
- It's 1 tsp of Baking Powder.
- You need 1/2 tsp of Baking Soda.
- You need 2 stick of Butter.
- You need 1 each of Egg.
- You need 1 1/2 cup of Sugar.
- It's 1 tsp of Vanilla.
- Prepare 1 of Decorator Sugar.
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Sugar Cookies (cutter) step by step
- Preheat oven to 375.
- In large bowl cream softened butter with sugar, egg, and vanilla..
- Sift flour together with baking powder and baking soda on top of creamed mixture..
- Mix all together with wooden spoon. Then knead it with hands into firm dough..
- Roll dough out with rolling pin to 1/4"..
- Cut with cookie cutter and place on non-stick or lightly greased cookie sheet..
- Bake for 9-11 minutes depending on whether you want soft cookies or nice brown edge cookies..
- Immediately sprinkle with decorator sugar while hot out of oven..
- Enjoy.
- Chocolate Coconut variation.
- Add 1 cup Hershey's Cocoa and 1 cup sweetened coconut to above recipe. Bake about 10 minutes. Sprinkle with white sugar. Enjoy..
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