It's christmas time!! Time to start making all of those christmas candies and cookies!! I have tried a LOT of sugar cookie recipes and have finally found my favorite one! This one is quick and easy and you don't have to refrigerate the dough! I always hated that part. And cold dough is not easy to work with.
1 cup butter (soften to room temp)
1 cup sugar
2 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
Mix all ingredients together (I usually only need to use about 2 1/2 cups flour, not the full 3). Roll to 1/8 inch thickness.
I have learned to put parchment paper down, put a ball of dough on it, then put a piece of saran wrap on top of that. No more flour mess on the counter and dough sticking to the rolling pin. If only my mom knew this trick, we probably would've made sugar cookies a lot more (and we already made them quite a bit, we just had a HUGE mess to clean up!).
Cut out the shapes you want (after you remove the saran wrap), then remove the dough from between your cookie shapes. Then, slide the parchment paper onto a cookie sheet.
Bake for 8-10 minutes.
Cool, then frost.
We'll be frosting ours in the morning and I will share a frosting recipe and some pictures!
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