Easiest Way to Make Yummy Cut Out Sugar Cookies

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Cut Out Sugar Cookies. Fresh baked, hand-made, individually decorated real American cookies. This will give the dough a chance to firm up again so that the cookies don't spread in the oven. Use cookie cutters and cut as many shapes as possible, re-rolling the dough scraps and cutting again.

Cut Out Sugar Cookies Lightly flouring the work suface is key to rolling out sugar cookies but another way to roll the dough is between two sheets of waxed paper or baking parchment paper. Lift off the top piece of paper and cut out the dough with your favorite cutters (try to cut the dough out with as little space between as you can, to minimize scraps). Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. You can have Cut Out Sugar Cookies using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cut Out Sugar Cookies

  1. You need 1 1/2 cup of Butter.
  2. It's 1 1/2 cup of Sugar.
  3. It's 5 of Eggs.
  4. You need 2 tsp of Vanilla.
  5. You need 6 cup of All-Purpose Flour.
  6. Prepare 3 tsp of Baking Powder.
  7. You need 1 tsp of Salt.

Cookies may not look "done" - cut out sugar cookies won't be golden brown like other cookie varieties, they'll just be set on the edges and are verrrrry lightly golden on the bottom. Don't worry, they'll keep cooking as the rest on the cookie sheet. Cut cookies in desired shapes and place them on a parchment or silpat lined baking sheet. Save the scraps of dough and re-roll them as needed.

Cut Out Sugar Cookies step by step

  1. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar well.
  2. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
  3. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, and salt.
  4. Gradually blend the dry mixture (second bowl) into the wet ingredients (first bowl).
  5. Chill dough for at least three hours or overnight.
  6. Roll dough out on a heavily floured canvas with a rolling pin until 1/8 - 1/4 thickness.
  7. Cut out with cookie cutters.
  8. Bake at 350°F until lightly golden.

Remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Cut out your cookies, making the most of the dough and squeezing in as many cookies as you can. My cookie cutters were fairly big, so I didn't get quite as many cookies per roll out. Stir in vanilla, nutmeg and egg. Stir in flour and baking soda.