Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, perfect sugar cookies. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Perfect Sugar Cookies is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Perfect Sugar Cookies is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook perfect sugar cookies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Perfect Sugar Cookies:
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter (3 sticks), softened
- Prepare 2 cups granulated sugar
- Take 4 eggs
- Make ready 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract (can use almond, peppermint or coconut extract instead)
- Take 5 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling
- Prepare 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Get 1 teaspoon salt
Steps to make Perfect Sugar Cookies:
- In large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Mix in eggs and extract until well combined - but do not over beat the egg.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together remaining ingredients.
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in batches until well combined.
- Divide dough into quarters, form into discs, and wrap each in plastic wrap. Chill for at least 2 hours.
- Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Remove one disc from fridge and roll out on floured surface until dough is 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick.
- Cut dough with cookie cutter and bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 6-8 minutes, watching closely. Cookies are done when bottoms are just barely golden brown.
- Let cool completely on wire rack before frosting. Make sure cookie sheets are completely cool to the touch before baking more cookies.
- Frost cookies with Royal Frosting once cookies are completely cool.
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