Best Sugar Cookie Recipe

Total Time: 38 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 8 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract (optional)
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups all-purpose flour

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 in the bowl of your mixer cream butter and sugar until smooth.
• 3 beat in extracts and egg.
• 4 in a separate bowl combine baking powder with flour and add a little at a time to the wet ingredients. the dough will be very stiff. if it becomes too stiff for your mixer turn out the dough onto a countertop surface. wet your hands and finish off kneading the dough by hand.
• 5 do not chill the dough. divide into workable batches, roll out onto a floured surface and cut. you want these cookies to be on the thicker side (closer to 1/4 inch rather than 1/8).
• 6 bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes. let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.