Recipe: Appetizing Perfect Sugar Cookies

Perfect Sugar Cookies. In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Perfect Sugar Cookie Recipe is really just that- PERFECT. The cookies keep shape while baking, are soft and chewy, plus there is NO refrigeration! This Sugar Cookie recipe is PERFECTION!

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside. In another large bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy and pale in color. Cut your cookies using a cookie cutter and place on cookie sheet. You can cook Perfect Sugar Cookies using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Perfect Sugar Cookies

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

Beat in the vanilla extract and egg. In another bowl, combine the flour, salt and baking powder and mix together. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients a little at a time and continue using the mixer until everything is combined and the mixture is crumbly. Wet your hands and knead it by hand.

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..

Cream together butter and sugar, scraping sides of bowl with a rubber spatula. Start on a medium speed, and gradually increase to highest speed possible until mixture is light in both color and texture. This is a variation on the sugar cookie using coconut oil. It tastes similar to a shortbread cookie, but they are very moist and delicious. Roll tops of cookies in sugar and/or colored sugar before baking for a festive treat.