Best Sugar Cookie Recipe

Soft cut out sugar cookie recipe that keeps its shape and dough does not need to be chilled before baking- perfect edges every time!

• Ready In: 38 mins
• Yields: 3 dozen

Ingredients

• 1  cup butter, softened
• 1  cup granulated sugar
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1⁄2 teaspoon  almond extract (optional)
• 1  egg
• 2  teaspoons baking powder
• 3  cups all-purpose flour

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. In the bowl of your mixer cream butter and sugar until smooth.
3. Beat in extracts and egg.
4. In a separate bowl combine baking powder with flour and add a little at a time to the wet ingredients. The dough will be very stiff. If it becomes too stiff for your mixer turn out the dough onto a countertop surface. Wet your hands and finish off kneading the dough by hand.
5. DO NOT CHILL THE DOUGH. Divide into workable batches, roll out onto a floured surface and cut. You want these cookies to be on the thicker side (closer to 1/4 inch rather than 1/8).
6. Bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes. Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.