Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe

Sugar Cookie Recipe

What are the holidays without a batch of sugar cookies? Here is an old fashioned sugar cookie recipe.

Ingredients:

1 cup of sugar
2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp lemon extract
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup of butter
1 beaten egg
1/4 cup of milk


Sift the dry ingredients together (flour, salt and baking powder) at least 3 times. In another bowl combine your egg, butter and sugar. Stir in your lemon and vanilla extract, with your egg, butter, and sugar mixture and whip until smooth. Begin adding in your dry ingredients (flour, salt and baking powder) with your egg, butter, sugar and flavorings and mix them together while adding in your milk. You have to make sure that all the ingredients are mixed together evenly.

Chill the sugar cookie dough for about 30 minutes in the refrigerator. On a floured wax paper roll out your sugar cookie dough until it's about 1/4 thick. You can then sprinkle sugar onto the rolled out sugar cookie dough and cut with a 2 inch round cookie cutter. Bake on a greased cookie sheet at 375 degrees for about eight to ten minutes.

This is a basic, old fashioned sugar cookie dough recipe that you can make cookies to eat or as a recipe for edible decorations.