Bring many copies of the recipe with you whenever you bake these cookies for someone! I guarantee you'll be asked for it! NOTE: I use milk and confectioners' sugar to make the frosting. I make it quite thin and use a pastry brush to "paint" the icing on the cookies. Not too thin that it merely makes the cookies wet and runs off, but just thin enough to spread smoothly.
Cookies are the ideal dessert for any occasion. Are you
having a holiday? Make some cookies. Are you throwing a party? Make some
cookies. Do you require snacks? Make some cookies. Are you planning a bake
sale? Make some cookies.
You get the idea.
And, among the thousands of cookie recipes on Recipes4worlds, this is one of
our top sugar cookie recipes, as rated and reviewed by our home chef community.
You may roll out the sugar cookie dough, cut it into various shapes and sizes,
and decorate the cookies to fit the occasion with this recipe for The Best
Rolled Sugar Cookies. So, let's get started and explore how to create sugar
cookies from scratch using this recipe, with loads of cookie-baking tips and
techniques along the way.
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| The Most Delicious Rolled Sugar Cookies |
Sugar Cookie Ingredients
Butter: Use unsalted butter that is soft enough to be
flexible but not so hot that it becomes greasy. When you press your fingertip
into the butter, it should make a little imprint but not be soft and mushy.
Sugar: Simply spoon white granulated sugar into a
measuring cup and level it with a knife, spatula, or bench scraper.
Eggs: Large eggs should be chilled or at room
temperature.
Extract of vanilla: Use real vanilla extract instead
of imitation vanilla for the greatest flavor.
All-purpose flour should be used. To measure flour, fluff it
up in the bag or container with a spoon, then scoop it into the measuring cup and
level it off. If you overfill the measuring cup with flour, the ingredient
ratio will be incorrect and your cookies will be too dry and crumbly.
Baking soda: Baking powder is a leavening additive
that aids in the rise of cookie dough during baking.
Salt: For this recipe, use normal table salt.
Ingredients Required
1 ½ cups butter, softened
2 cups granulated sugar
4 eggs
a tsp vanilla extract
5 cups regular flour
2 tbsp. baking powder
1 teaspoon sea salt
Preparation Method
In a large mixing basin, cream together the butter and sugar
with an electric mixer until creamy. Incorporate the eggs and vanilla extract.
Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl. Refrigerate the
dough for at least 1 hour (or overnight).
Preheat the oven to 400°F (200 degrees C).
Flour lightly dust a work surface. Roll out the dough to a
thickness of 1/4 to 1/2 inch. Use any cookie cutter to cut out shapes. Place
cookies on ungreased baking sheets 1 inch apart.
Bake for 6 to 8 minutes, or until the cookies are gently
browned. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely before
decorating.
Duration for Recipe
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
6 minutes in the oven
1 hour chill time
1-hour total time 26 mins
Servings:\s60
60 cookies per batch
Nutrition Facts (per
serving)
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Calories |
110 |
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Fat |
5g |
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Carbs |
15g |
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Protein |
2g |
Making Sugar Cookie Cutouts
Allow the dough to come to room temperature for a few
minutes while you turn on the oven, prepare your baking sheets, and gather your
cookie cutters. The dough will be easier to handle by the time you're ready to
roll it. Flour your counter and rolling pin to keep the dough from sticking.
Roll the dough out to a uniform thickness of 14 to 12 inches. Flour the sharp
edge of the cookie cutter and cut out shapes. Place the cutouts on a cookie
sheet lined with parchment paper, leaving an inch or more between them. This
area allows the dough to gently spread and the hot oven air to circulate.
Sugar Cookie Baking Instructions
More than just putting something in the oven is required for
good baking. For starters, there's the temperature. Each oven heats up
differently. As a result, we always recommend using an oven thermometer to
check the actual temperature before you begin baking. Then there are the hot
areas in the oven. To ensure that your cookies (or other baked goods) bake
evenly, rotate the pan halfway during the baking time.
These sugar cookies bake for about six to eight minutes. They
should be faintly toasted around the edges but remain light in color overall.
Cool entirely on a wire rack; they will stiffen up as they cool.
Note: If you line your baking sheet with parchment
paper, you may slide the cookies, paper, and all, onto the rack without touching
the heated cookies and risking bending or shattering them if you tried to pull
them off the sheet with a spatula. This is especially vital if you're making
elaborate sugar cookie cutouts. After around 10 minutes, slide the cookies off
the parchment paper and reuse the parchment paper for another batch of cookies.
Before reloading your baking sheet, make sure it is absolutely cool. You don't
want the cookies to melt before they bake.
How to Make Sugar Cookies?
The essential thing to remember is to let the cookies cool
completely before applying cookie icing or frosting to avoid melting them off.
How Do You Keep Sugar Cookies?
Sugar cookies can be kept in the refrigerator in an airtight
container for about three days before they lose their freshness. You can stack
the cookies if you've frosted them with royal icing, which dries stiff to the
touch. Cookies with soft frosting should be stored in single layers, or with
parchment or waxed paper between layers if they must be stacked. Sugar cookies
can be frozen in an airtight freezer.
