Sugar Cookies. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets.
This recipe can easily be made into snickerdoodle cookies by rolling the dough in cinnamon-sugar before baking.
Place butter and sugar in large bowl of electric stand mixer and beat until light in color.
Add egg and milk and beat to combine.
You can have Sugar Cookies using 6 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Sugar Cookies
- It's 1 stick of butter.
- It's 1 cup of sugar.
- It's 1 of egg.
- It's 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- You need 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 2 cup of flour.
Put mixer on low speed, gradually add flour, and beat until mixture. Stir in flour, baking soda and cream of tartar. Cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and baking soda; gradually beat into creamed mixture.
Sugar Cookies step by step
- Pre heat oven to 200°.
- Beat room temperature butter and sugar with mixer for 3-5 mins.
- Beat in the egg.
- Add vanilla extract.
- On a separate bowl, sift baking powder and flour together. Then add this mixture to the butter and sugar mixture.
- Knead the dough if it gets to hard to use the mixer.
- Mold or shape your dough.
- Add food coloring as desired.
- Bake for 7 mins and let cool.
- Enjoy.
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