How to Prepare Perfect Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Powdered sugar, for rolling out dough I love sugar cookies that are crisp on the outside and very chewy on the inside. Do not try to roll these cookies out, they are meant to be shaped or dropped. This recipe can easily be made into snickerdoodle cookies by rolling the dough in cinnamon-sugar before baking.

We love sugar cookies - and we love when yummy recipes only require a few ingredients. Put those two together and we ESPECIALLY love yummy cookies that take just a few pantry staples, and today's recipe is just that. Delicious, butter-y cookies that call for just butter, sugar and flour. You can cook Sugar Cookies using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sugar Cookies

1. Prepare 1 cup of white sugar.
2. It's 1/2 cup of brown sugar.
3. It's 2 1/2 cup of flour.
4. It's 1/2 cup of butter, ONE STICK.
5. It's 2 each of eggs.
6. It's 1 tsp of salt.
7. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
8. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
9. It's 1 tsp of nutmeg (optional).

These sugar cookies are soft, chewy and produce a flavorful bakery style soft sugar cookie! Quick and easy to make, this recipe makes cookies that turn out perfectly every single time! Sugar Cookies are one of my very favorite cookies in the entire world. They are truly one of the most perfect cookies ever.

Sugar Cookies step by step

1. Mix butter and sugars together until creamy.
2. Add eggs and vanilla extract.
3. Mix flour, baking soda, (nutmeg if desired), and salt together. Add to wet mixture..
4. Mix well, cover and refrigerate for at least one hour..
5. Scoop out small amount and roll into a ball. Roll in sugar (and cinnamon for snickerdoodle) and place onto parchment lined cookie sheets. (if no parchment, I simply buttered the sheet after each use.).
6. Bake at 350° until lightly brown (approximately 11 minutes), let cool for two minutes on cookie sheet..
7. Enjoy..

Sugar cookies are a buttery classic that make a delicious anytime treat. Enjoy your sugar cookies plain, or decorate them with icing to make them festive. This recipe is a favorite of Martha's, who likes to add one tablespoon cognac alongside the egg and vanilla, after creaming together the butter and sugar. Her daughter, Esther Davis, shared the recipe with me and she came up with all the exact measurements, since the original cookies were mixed by feel and taste. These are my favorite cookies and I hope they'll become yours as well. —Helen Wallis, Vancouver, Washington In a bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.