Best Sugar Cookie Recipe

From: Katrina's Kitchen

36

serves

8

cooking time

350

Prehead Oven
Ingredients
  1. 1 cup unsalted butter
  2. 1 cup granulated white sugar
  3. 1 tsp vanilla extract
  4. 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  5. 1 egg
  6. 2 tsp baking powder
  7. 1/2 tsp salt
  8. 3 cups all purpose flour
What to do?
Preheat oven to 350° F
In the bowl of your mixer, cream butter and sugar until smooth, at least 3 minutes
Beat in extracts and egg.
In a separate bowl, combine baking powder and salt with flour and add a little at a time to the wet ingredients
IMPORTANT NOTE: If the dough looks crumbly keep mixing for 30 seconds to 1 minute longer. The dough should be pulling away from the sides of the mixer
If the dough still looks too dry or stiff for your mixer, turn out the dough onto a countertop surface, flour surface as needed. Wet your hands and finish off kneading the dough by hand.
DO NOT CHILL THE DOUGH. Divide into workable batches(203 chunks), roll out on a floured surface, and cut. You want these cookies to be on the thicker side(closer to 1/4 inch rather than 1/8)
Bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes. Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack