Easy No-Chill Sugar Cookies

Chef.Jules's Note:

This recipe is from Wilton and was on the back of some cookie cutters I recently purchased. I liked that it didn't require chilling. It's a rich, buttery cookie, very tasty.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Yield: 36 cookies

• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. In mixing bowl, cream butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla.
3. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl; add to butter mixture 1 cup at a time, mixing after each addition.
4. Do not chill dough. Divide dough into two balls. On a floured surface roll each ball into a circle approximately 12" wide and 1/8" thick. Dip cookie cutter in flour and cut out cookies.
5. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 6 - 7 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. It helps to line pans with parchment paper for easy cookie removal.

Reviews

[abigfan7]

These cookies taste fine, but you can't use them to cut out cookies. The dough is too soft, so it won't roll out properly and it just sticks into the cutter.

[Jessa M]

Good recipe overall, but the cookies taste too salty in my opinion. I would cut the salt in half. I didn't have a problem with stickiness like some reviewers did, but I made sure to flour my rolling pin and dough cloth so that nothing sticked when I rolled it out. They worked wonderfully for decorating.

[Little Of Everything]

Well these are awesome! Flavor is perfect, and they're SO EASY! I was looking to make cookies quickly before a party, and these were great! The dough was so easy to work with, really not very sticky at all. I did exactly as told, except that I had salted butter, but it didn't matter! I did end up cutting them with a glass, since I didn't have a cookie cutter, and they do spread a bit, so they're a little big, but all in all great recipe. I used Kittencal's Buttery Cut-Out Sugar Cookies W/ Icing That Hardens for some icing that hardens and they look great! Thanks for posting!