Sugar Cookies
The easiest, most diecious sugar cookie recipe!
Equipment
- 1 Stand Mixer (Kitchen Aid)
- Rolling Pin
- 2 Cookie Sheets We use parchment paper with ours
- Cookie Cutters
Ingredients
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Powdered sugar (aka. confectioners sugar)
- 1 Cup Butter (salted) set out to soften about 1 hour before mixing.
- 2 Large Eggs (if you use XL large or Jumbo Eggs you may need to add 1/2 cup flour)
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Baking SODA
- 4 Cups Flour (I Use Gold Medal All purpose)
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350℉
- In a stand mixer, cream sugars and butter together on a medium speed until well incorporated.
- Beat in Eggs and vanilla until smooth. Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl if you don't have a beater that does it for you.
- Add in 1 cup flour with salt and baking soda and mix on Medium speed. Then continue to add each additional cup of flour mixing and scraping the sides of the bowl in between.
- Lightly flour a surface to roll out the cookies onto.
- Depending on how much space you have you may want to do this in two batches so that the dough does not get over worked. Roll out the dough to about 1/4 inch thick. Thinner will be crispier, and thicker will be chewier.
- Cut out cookies and transfer to your cookie sheet. Keep at least 1 inch in between cookies, as they will expand slightly when baked
- Bake at 350℉ for 10-14 min. This will depend on how evenly your oven bakes, how thick your cookies are, what altitude you are at, and how dark or light you like your cookies. Start with 10 min and go from there.
