Perfect Sugar Cookies

How to Making Recipes Perfect Sugar Cookies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps

Perfect Sugar Cookies - Perfect Sugar Cookie Recipe is really just that- PERFECT. The cookies keep shape while baking, are soft and chewy, plus there is NO chilling! This Sugar Cookie recipe is PERFECTION! Pick up the slab of dough (enclosed between the two layers of plastic wrap) and move to a large baking sheet. This is the only sugar cookie recipe you'll need!

Topped with a sweet & simple powdered sugar frosting.

In a large mixing bowl cream butter and sugar.

You can have Perfect Sugar Cookies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients make Perfect Sugar Cookies

1. You need 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter (3 sticks), softened.
2. Prepare 2 cups granulated sugar.
3. It's 4 eggs.
4. It's 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract (can use almond, peppermint or coconut extract instead).
5. Prepare 5 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling.
6. Prepare 2 teaspoons baking powder.
7. It's 1 teaspoon salt.

Perfect Sugar Cookies instructions

1. In large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Mix in eggs and extract until well combined - but do not over beat the egg..
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together remaining ingredients..
3. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in batches until well combined..
4. Divide dough into quarters, form into discs, and wrap each in plastic wrap. Chill for at least 2 hours..
5. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees..
6. Remove one disc from fridge and roll out on floured surface until dough is 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick..
7. Cut dough with cookie cutter and bake on ungreased cookie sheet for 6-8 minutes, watching closely. Cookies are done when bottoms are just barely golden brown..
8. Let cool completely on wire rack before frosting. Make sure cookie sheets are completely cool to the touch before baking more cookies..
9. Frost cookies with Royal Frosting once cookies are completely cool..

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