Simple sugar cookies. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract. Once combined, slowly blend in the dry ingredients until evenly mixed. Place onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Beat in the egg, then the vanilla and salt.

Advertisement This Recipe is a State Fair Blue Ribbon winner. 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. You can cook Simple sugar cookies using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Simple sugar cookies

Prepare 2 cups of flour.
You need 125 g of butter.
Prepare 1 tbspn of vanillah essense.
You need 1 cup of sugar(powdered).
Prepare 1/8 of tspn lemon zest(optional).
You need 1 of egg.
Prepare of Red food colouring.
It's of Small star cutter.

If you only use baking powder, you'll get thick cookies that are too cake-like. If you love sugar cookies, you'll also love our famous recipe for soft sugar cookies and our sugar cookie bars. Cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and baking soda; gradually beat into creamed mixture.

Simple sugar cookies step by step

Here are all u need.
In a big bowl,cream ur butter with sugar till well combined and soft,add in egg,vanillah essense,lemon zest and mix well.
Gradually add in your sifted flour,nd mix,using spatula or wooden spoon,u can use hand mixer😁i was too lazy to climb up and got mine from the shelf so i use blender😂😂😂😂to mix it well.
And here it is,cut abt 1/4 part of the dough,nd add colour to it,mix it very well.
U stretch it as shown here,and they are ready,roll it flat not too thin.
Cut star shape on the red cookie dough,nd cut circles on the other,use thesame star shape and cut again on the white cookie dough also.
Gently lift the cutted stars and keep aside then,and gently lift them again and place them inside the white cookies dough,repeat till all are finished,u can use the red cookie dough also as shown here, i did two of them,arrange on a baking tray and bake at pre-heated oven of 250F for 15min(please note oven temp varies so always watch them closely as u bake to avoid burnt cookies😍).
And here they are,they taste too sweet and are good combo of coffee or tea during iftar😍😍.
Please note whatever measurement i give,is the actual one i used,if u try and found out some fault kindly knw the fault could be from your measurement,i always, always use measuring cups,so if u dnt have one buy pls..
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