Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe

Usually, people make sugar cookies at Christmas time where they cut them out in different shapes and decorate them with icing, sprinkles, or candies. I love making them all year round since my family and I love eating them.

I love that these cookies are soft, chewy, and round. The great thing about these cookies is that you don’t need to refrigerate them before baking them like some cookies. If you are creative then you can play with the ingredients in that you can add or take away ingredients. I actually have made sugar cookies with only 3 ingredients.

This recipe actually started out as my 3 ingredient sugar cookies recipe but when I started making it, it didn’t come out right it was too dry so I had to figure out what I should do. So I decided to look online and see how I could turn this around and make it what it should be. I found several but they had other ingredients that mine didn’t have. In the end, I had to add more ingredients and play with measurements. Still, it still came out dry and I had to mix the dough with my hands. I learned a lesson with this recipe in that I needed a mixer. So now I use a mixer to mix the dough instead of mixing it with a spoon. But in the end, it came out great. My family loved it. And the cookies didn’t last long. The next recipe that I am going to do is Lemon cookies and I am going to try my 3 ingredient sugar cookies again but this time with a mixer.

EQUIPMENT NEEDED:

mixing bowl

mixing spoon

mixer

measuring spoons

measuring cups

cooling rack

cookie sheet

cookie scoop

spatula

wax paper (optional)

SUGAR COOKIE RECIPE

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Preheat: 325 degrees

Yields: about 23 cookies

INGREDIENTS:

2 ¾ cup of flour

1 teaspoon of baking soda

½ teaspoon of baking powder

1 cup and 2 teaspoon cup of butter

1 ½ cup of sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a cookie sheet, either place a sheet of wax paper or leave it ungreased.

In a mixing bowl, combine sugar and butter. Use a mixer and cream them together. You can hand mix it but it will take longer. Set the bowl aside.

In a bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Add these ingredients to the butter and sugar mixture. Mix well. Add the egg and vanilla extract. Mix well.

Use a cookie scoop (which is much easier) and scoop the dough and place on the cookie sheet about an inch apart. Use the spatula to scrape the sides to get all the dough.

Place the cookie sheet in the oven and bake for about 15 minutes. Every oven is different so the time may vary.

When done then take out of the oven and place the cookies on a cookie rack. Let cool then enjoy.

TIPS:

Make sure that the butter is soft.

The butter needs to be a room temperature.

Using wax paper is great.

COOKIE FACTS:

Did you know that in some countries cookies are called biscuits?

Sugar cookies can be rolled, dropped, or cut into shapes.

Cookies seem to have started in Persia in the 7th Century AD when sugar became more popular.

Cookies came to the United States in the 1620s by the Dutch from New Amsterdam.

Sugar cookies are cookies whose main ingredients are flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla extract, baking soda, or baking powder.

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