Sugar Cookies

Submitted by Tracy K

"Delicious sugar cookies, especially if you use the vanilla and almond extracts together. Perfect for roll-and-cut Christmas cookies. Can also be formed into logs for slice-and-bake cookies. Thanks to PetitFour for the original recipe! Prep time includes chilling time."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 30mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 4 dozen cookies

ingredients

• 887.21 ml all-purpose flour
• 4.92 ml baking powder
• 2.46 ml salt
• 236.59 ml unsalted butter, room temp
• 473.18 ml sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 14.79 ml vanilla (or half vanilla and half almond extract)

directions

1. Mix dry ingredients in separate bowl.
2. Using stand mixer or hand mixer, beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
3. Beat in eggs one at a time, scraping down bowl each time, then vanilla and/or almond extract.
4. Add flour mixture gradually and mix at low speed until comes together.
5. Turn out onto flat surface.
6. Knead a couple of times just until smooth.
7. Pat into a flat disk, wrap in plastic and chill until firm enough to roll, about one hour.
8. Roll and cut as desired.
9. Bake at 350 about 8-10 minutes on parchment-lined sheets.

Reviews

[cookin from scratch]

Great cookies for frosting! They aren't very sweet, so the frosting doesn't kill you with sugar. I had trouble with them because I rolled them out too thin (about 1/4 inch) , and they came out dry and crunchy. Once I realized the problem and rolled them a little thicker, they were great.

 

[prettydiscdog]

Excellent sugar cookie recipe, especially for rolling and cutting. I baked them on parchment on a stainless sheet so the bottoms were the same color as the tops. Also, unlike some other recipes, these are done before golden color appears so are completely uniform in color, making them perfect for decorating. Completely delicious too!

 

[Donna M.]

These made 50 beautiful Christmas cookies when iced with Christmas Cooking Icing by Junebug (64015). The dough was very workable and i did not even need to refrigerate it.

 

[rdailey]

I don't know where all these good reviews came from because these were horrible!! They had NO flavor at all. They were so bad that after trying one from the first batch I took the second batch out of the oven before they were done and threw them away!

 

[horseplay]

After many weeks of searching and many batches of cookies given away to coworkers, I have finally found a recipe that tastes exactly like my grandmother's sugar cookies (except she sprinkled cinnamon on hers.) These bring back memories. Thanks for sharing.