Recipe: Perfect Improved Best Rolled Sugar Cookies

Improved Best Rolled Sugar Cookies. Improved Best Rolled Sugar Cookies Angela Vose Nixa, MO. These sugar cookies taste so fresh and have a hint of almond. The dough is incredibly sticky at first, but I suggest using powdered sugar to sprinkle on dough instead of flour.

Instructions Mix butter and sugar with fork or whisk until smooth. Add in flour, baking powder and salt. Place dough on parchment-lined cookie sheets. You can cook Improved Best Rolled Sugar Cookies using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Improved Best Rolled Sugar Cookies

1. You need 1 1/2 cup of butter, softened.
2. Prepare 2 cups of white sugar.
3. You need 3 of eggs.
4. You need 1 tsp. of vanilla extract.
5. Prepare 4 cups of all-purpose flour.
6. It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
7. You need 1 tsp of salt.
8. It's 1 tsp of Almond Emulsion.

Slide parchment paper with cookies onto cooling rack; cool. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla only until mixed. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt.

Improved Best Rolled Sugar Cookies instructions

1. Mix Flour, salt, and baking powder in separate bowl and set aside.
2. In large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth..
3. Beat in eggs, vanilla, and almond into wet ingredients.
4. Slowly add in flour, baking powder, and salt. Dough will become extremely sticky. DO NOT ADD MORE FLOUR. Rather, cover it, and place the bowl in the fridge for about 20 minutes. Remove, and work in the flour until just mixed. DO NOT OVERWORK DOUGH!.
5. Divide dough into 2 portions and wrap tightly in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Overnight, preferably..
6. Preheat oven to 400*.
7. Sprinkle powdered sugar on rolling surface, and on dough disc. Roll out to 1/2 in thick..
8. Use cookie cutters, and place on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 5-7 minutes..
9. Allow to cool completely before frosting.

Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight if you have time). Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. The Pillsbury cookies were the most "bland" of the sugar cookies: sweet, but not distractingly so, a little moist on the inside, and in need of some decorative icing. The sugar cookie is a classic and such a crowd-pleaser.