Making sugar cookies is one of our Christmas traditions and we look forward to it every year. It’s so much fun to sit around as a family and decorate the cookies that we make with lots of icing and sprinkles.
Of course, you can make these cookies any time of year. They’re just as delicious on birthdays, Halloween, Easter… really, any time at all!
Sugar Cookies (Click here to print this recipe.)
Ingredients:
Cookies:
- 2 1/2 Cups Flour
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
- 3/4 Cup Unsalted Butter, Softened
- 2 Eggs
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
Icing:
- 2 Cups Icing Sugar, Sifted
- 6-8 Tablespoons MilkInstructions:
1. Cream together the sugar and butter in a large bowl. Add vanilla, eggs, baking powder, salt and flour. Mix well.2. Preheat oven to 400F.
3. Roll out dough on a floured surface until it is about 1/2 inch thick (a little thinner than that is okay). Use your cookie cutters to make shapes.
4. Bake 7-8 minutes.
5. Allow cookies to cool completely. While they are cooling, you can make your icing by simply mixing together your icing sugar and milk (use enough milk to get the icing to the consistency that you want).
Makes 2 dozen cookies.
these are okay. they dont look like the ones in the picture when i made them, so i might have done something wrong, but we’ll have to see if the icing will make them better.
raewyn: I don’t suggest margarine, it doesn’t work as well with baking. I’m sure they would roll fine, but I’m not sure how the baking would go.
can i use margarine instead of butter? will it bake the same and roll the same?
Kris: I hope you like these ones, too!
these look amazing! putting it on my to do list today – i made the lemon glazed cookies a couple of days ago and they were awesome! thank you for posting such great recipes!
I think shortbread made with flour and cornstarch is the best.:) Your sugar cookie recipe has firm up my indecision of what cookies to make: shortbread and sugar cookies. Thank you:) Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!
OK. We need a vote, people. Shortbread made with flour, or shorbread made with cornstarch? Which makes the better cookie? Has anyone ever done a taste-test??
Those look amazing!