Easy Sugar Cookie Cut-Outs
Recipe: #3500
December 13, 2011
"This is my favourite sugar cookie recipe. It's from a Wilton booklet of Christmas recipes. The number of cookies this makes depends on the size of the cookies."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (21.2 g)
- Calories 97.7
- Total Fat - 5.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 1 g
- Cholesterol - 6.5 mg
- Sodium - 43.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 8.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.2 g
- Sugars - 6.4 g
- Protein - 3.6 g
- Calcium - 35.1 mg
- Iron - 0.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 400F
Step 2
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer, then beat in the egg and vanilla.
Step 3
In another bowl, mix together the flour and baking powder.
Step 4
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture one cup at a time, mixing after each addition. (The dough will be very stiff; blend the last cup of flour in by hand if necessary.)
Step 5
Do NOT chill the dough. (I love this)
Step 6
Divide dough into 2 balls.
Step 7
On a lightly floured surface, roll each ball into a circle approximately 12 inches in diameter and 1/8 inch thick.
Step 8
Cut cookies into desired shapes, dipping cookie cutter in flour before each use.
Step 9
Decorate with gel and crystal sprinkle decorations, if desired.
Step 10
Bake on an ungreased baking sheet on the middle rack of your oven for 6 to 10 minutes, or until cookies are lightly browned.
Step 11
Cool for 2 to 3 minutes before transferring to a baking grid/cooling rack.
Step 12
You can sprinkle cocoa powder on the cookies if desired (looks good if you're making reindeer-shaped cookies).
Step 13
Cookies may be frozen and stored in a tightly sealed container for up to 2 months.
Tips
No special items needed.