This is the best sugar cookie recipe and the only one I use. Whenever you make these cookies for someone, be sure to bring along several copies of the recipe — you will be asked for it, I promise! Note: I make icing with confectioners' sugar and milk. I make it fairly thin, as I "paint" the icing on the cookies with a pastry brush. Thin enough to spread easily but not so thin that it just makes your cookies wet and runs off.
Ingredients
- white sugar: 2 cups
- ½ cups butter: 1 piece (softened)
- eggs: 4 piece
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- all-purpose flour: 5 cups
- baking powder: 2 tsp
- salt: 1 tsp
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Stages of cooking
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Gather all ingredients. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Beat sugar and softened butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least 1 hour (or overnight). Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
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Lightly dust a work surface with flour. Roll out dough to 1/4 to 1/2 inch thickness. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are lightly browned, 6 to 8 minutes. Carefully transfer cookies to a wire rack and cool completely before decorating. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Enjoy! DOTDASH MEREDITH FOOD STUDIOS
