Ready To Roll Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup butter cold, diced cut into chunks
- 1 egg
- 3/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp pure almond extract
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350.
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Combine the flour and baking powder, set aside.
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Cream the sugar and butter. Add the egg and extracts and mix.
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Gradually add the flour mixture and beat just until combined, scraping down the bowl, especially the bottom.
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The dough will be crumbly. Knead it with your hands as you scoop it out of the bowl for rolling.
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Roll on a floured surface to about 1/4" to 3/8" thick, and cut into shapes.
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Place on parchment-lined baking sheets. Place baking sheet of cookies in the freezer for 5 min or so.
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Bake for 10-12 minutes, until bottoms are slightly brown. Let sit a few minutes on the sheet, then transfer to a cooling rack.
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Let sit a few minutes on the sheet, then transfer to a cooling rack.
Recipe Notes
I have found it time out just right to have 1 sheet in the oven, 1 in the freezer and one for newly cut cookie dough.
When cookies are done baking, remove from oven and replace with the pan from freezer, and put newly cut cookie dough pan in the freezer.
Do NOT put new cookie dough shapes on a pan that just came from the oven. Cool that pan off by running cold water on the underside, or use a new pan.