Homemade Sugar Cookies Recipe
Sugar cookies, a classic American Dessert, are known to all for its amazing flavor, soft center, and crispy edges. Trying sugar cookies recipe at home is nothing but a matter of great excitement.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Stir flour, and baking powder together and set mixture aside.
- Now, beat the butter and granulated sugar together with a stand mixer until it gets smooth, fluffy and creamy.
- After that, add whisked eggs, vanilla extract and almond extract ( Optional) together and mix thoroughly with the stand mixer to get a smoothly blended mixture
- Make sure that all the ingredients are mixed properly. Otherwise, it will affect the taste of your favorite sugar cookies.
- Now add the previously whisked mixture of flour and baking powder in the thick and wet buttery substance
- Mix thoroughly. If you find the mixture too soft or too sticky, you can add a little amount of flour to it.
- This is the step where you need to divide the soft dough into two equal parts.
- Place the dough on a lightly flour sprinkled parchment paper. Now, make your rolling pin lightly floured and roll it down with each ¼ inch thickness.
- Sprinkle flour on the rolled out doughs and place a piece of parchment paper on its top to avoid further sticking.
- Then, place another rolled out dough on the top and make it cover up with a plastic wrap. Now, put it into the refrigerator for a minimum of 1-2 hours and up to a maximum of 2 days.
- Now Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
- Remove the dough pieces from the refrigerator and use a cookie cutter to turn it into the shapes of cookies
- Continue the process and shape all the cookies. You can shape the cookies according to your own choice.
- Place all the cookies on the baking sheets with 3 inches gap between each and bake for 11-12 minutes
- After baking, consider the sugar cookies to get cool down on the baking sheet for few minutes and then place it to a wire rack to make it get cooled permanently.
- Now, your sugar cookies are ready to decorate with icing