Easy Sugar Cookies. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets. Mix the flour, baking powder, and baking soda together in a bowl; set the mixture aside. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract.

This is an easy sugar cookie recipe, you don't have to roll it out, and the cookies are soft and chewy, unlike other sugar cookies. The key to soft and chewy sugar cookies is the combination of baking soda and baking powder. If you only use baking powder, you'll get thick cookies that are too cake-like. You can have Easy Sugar Cookies using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Easy Sugar Cookies

It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
You need 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
Prepare 1 cup of butter SOFT.
Prepare 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
You need 1 of egg.
Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
Prepare 3 cup of flour.

If you only use baking soda, the cookies will be too thin. These sugar cookies are ready in no-time flat. If you need cookies quickly, you should also try these fast Cake Mix Cookies. My sister-in-law made this easy sugar cookie recipe at my house a couple years ago and I have been making them often ever since.

Easy Sugar Cookies step by step

preheat oven to 375..
Stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside..
Cream together sugar and SOFT butter. butter must be soft or cookies will come out hard. Add vanilla and egg..
gradually blend in dry ingredients..
Roll dough around on tsp into balls. flour hands so dough does not stick to hands..
place onto ungreased cookie sheet. bake 8 to 10 min or untill golden brown. Let stand 2 min. Enjoy!!.

In a medium bowl, mix together the butter and sugar until combined. Then, you'll add the flour and almond (if you want to) and mix well. Mix the softened butter with the sugar until light and fluffy. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt. I actually prefer to decorate my sugar cookies with my buttercream frosting.