Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe

Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe

• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp cream of tartar

When making sugar cookies from scratch, or any cookie for that matter, it's important to cream together the butter and sugar. Start with room temperature butter or margarine and beat in the sugar until it's fully incorporated.

Next add the egg, vanilla and almond extracts and beat it some more. Then add the flour, baking soda and cream of tartar. It's that easy.

Now wrap the dough in plastic wrap and prepare to freeze or put it in the fridge to chill before rolling.

Rolling Sugar Cookies

Preheat the oven to 375 F before rolling out your cookies if you plan to bake them now.

Once the dough is chilled or thawed then spread some powdered sugar on the table. Usually you'd use flour but I don't like to add more flour to when making sugar cookies from scratch so I use powdered sugar instead. Dust some on your rolling pin too.

Now place the sugar cookie dough on the table and roll it out. I have apicture tutorial of how to roll dough if you need it.

Bake for 7-8 minutes.

Freezing Sugar Cookies

You can freeze your sugar cookie dough before rolling, after cutting or after baking.

Cookies should be double- or triple- wrapped for the freezer so they don't get freezer burn or absorb smells and flavors from other foods. I use plastic wrap and one or two layers of freezer quality plastic bags.

Dough can be shaped in a disk so it's easy to roll after thawing.

Cut out cookies can be flash frozen on a waxed or parchment paper linedcookie sheet then wrapped for the freezer.

Baked cookies should be cooled and then wrapped. They can be frosted before or after freezing.

If you're frosting them before freezing they should be frozen on a cookiesheet until the frosting is solid before wrapping.