Chewy Sugar Cookies

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt (use 1/2 tsp if using unsalted butter)
• 1 cup salted butter, softened
• 1 2/3 cups granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Recipe

• 1 sift together flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
• 2 in another bowl, cream softened butter with sugar until fluffy. add one egg at a time and stir until incorporated. stir in vanilla and almond extracts.
• 3 gradually add the flour mixture into the batter, stirring until well-mixed. don't be afraid to stir it a lot. when everything is incorporated, the dough will be heavy and slightly sticky. cover it up and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes to chill.
• 4 preheat oven to 350°f
• 5 when the dough is done chilling, scoop out balls of dough about the diameter of a quarter, and place them on foil-lined baking sheets about 2 inches apart from one another.
• 6 grease the bottom of a flat glass and gently flatten the dough balls until they are small discs about 1/3 inch thick. this will help your cookies spread evenly instead of mounding in the middle.
• 7 bake for about 10 minutes, until the edges are just very slightly starting to become a golden-brown. immediately remove from oven and let sit on the cookie sheet to finish baking for another 2 minutes.
• 8 these stay chewy for a long time but they won't last long.