Vanilla Sugar Cookies

Submitted by riffraff

"This is an adopted recipe that I am honored to have."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 48 cookies

ingredients

• 3 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 8 ounces unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla

directions

1. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
2. Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
3. Beat in eggs one at a time, scraping down bowl each time, then add vanilla.
4. Add flour mixture and mix at low speed until dough just comes together.
5. Knead a couple of times just until smooth, then pat into a flat disk, wrap in plastic and chill until firm enough to roll.
6. Roll and cut as desired and place on parchment-lined sheets.
7. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes.

Reviews

[teachypeach]

This is a perfect sugar cookie for holiday decorating...but make sure you don't cover up the taste of these delicious yummers. They can definitely stand on their own. The cookies aren't a flaky, more brittle sugar cookie. They hold up nicely under decorating conditions but without the bland, cardboard flavor you usually have to accept from a sturdier cookie. These will DEFINITELY be the cookies i make for my traditional Easter sugar cookie decorating.

 

[Allison K]

This is now my go-to cut out cookie recipe. So easy to work with and holds the shape of any type of cookie cutter! I'm adding this to our family cookbook so that we can always find it easily. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Chef Jean]

A great cookie! Just what I think of with a sugar cookie. I made half the recipe and mixed everything by hand, which worked our really well. I left the dough in the fridge for 2 days(didn't get to them when I thought I would), but did not notice any problems because of that. I rolled them out between two sheets of plastic wrap which helped when I had to flip the dough a few time to fix the cracking that was going on while rolling. They tasted wonderful too, everyone at work ate them up!

 

[Kirsi B.]

This has become my cookie recipe for good. I also use it to make choc chip cookies, just use baking soda instead of baking powder. Everyone loves these and they store and travel great. First I thought they were not done because they never really brown, but that's the key for shaped cookie and perfect dough. Add anything you want or just make sugar cookie on any form and go crazy decorating! Great basic recipe with great taste!

 

[Super-Wife]

Great Cookie- it does take a little luck to work with this dough though. I too substituted whole what flour and added a little almond extract. My advice: work slowly! Don't overbeat the ingredients, mix on your slowest speed, roll slowly and carefully with your rolling pin, etc. While it is a litte complicated to work with the dough, the results are AMAZING!!! Wow- what a cookie!