Christmas Sugar Cookies
This is the best Christmas sugar cookie recipe we've ever tried! These Christmas cut-out cookies are part or our yearly traditions, and we've been using this recipe for many years.
Servings: 36 cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour and a bit extra for rolling out
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 stick butter (1/2 cup), at room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt, by hand, in a medium mixing bowl.
- In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer for about 3 minutes, until creamy.
- Add the egg and vanilla and beat on medium speed until blended.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients. Mix on low speed just until blended.
- Divide the dough into half. Press each mound of dough into a flat disk. Wrap each disk with plastic wrap and refrigerate until well chilled, about 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease 3 baking sheets with butter.
- Sprinkle your work surface with some flour. Unwrap 1 chilled disk of dough and place it on the floured surface. Sprinkle the top of the dough with a little more flour.
- Roll out the dough with a rolling pin until it's about 1/4" thick. Sprinkle a bit more flour on the dough as needed so it doesn't stick.
- After rolling out dough, cut out shapes with cookie cutters, and place the shapes on the greased cookie sheet.
- Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, until light brown around the edges.
- Let cool on the cookie sheet set on a baking rack for 15 minutes, and then transfer the cookies from the cookie sheet to the cooling rack and let them cool completely.