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

[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!

[ashwise]

This is the best sugar cookie recipe I've found, and I've tried loads! A lot of recipes have too much flour and not enough sugar. I added an extra half a cup of sugar and they're amazing! They are really sticky and wouldn't recommend trying to roll them out into shapes. I treated them more like drop cookies and just dropped rounded table spoons onto the cookie sheet. If you want to try rolling out the dough I'd recommend adding another 1/2 cup of flour. Very good after dinner sugar cookie.

[sunnyNP]

I don't know how this got such rave reviews...it was a total flop for us. The dough stuck to a silicone liner by itself and with extra flour, and none of the cut outs would come out. I ended up making balls and pressing them with the bottom of a glass. The baking time was longer than recommended and they REALLY spread. They tasted good, but this dough is not good for cutouts. I tried to chill the other half too, and it was still sticky.
I'll keep looking for another recipe.