How to Bake Perfect Sugar Cookies
Step by step guide how to bake perfect sugar cookies
Yield: 30 cookies
Materials
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 3/4 cup sugar granulated
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar together using a stand mixer on high speed for a couple of minutes until fluffy.
- Add the egg to your mixture and cream together for 30 seconds. Add vanilla and mix again until fully combined. Scrape the slides of the bowl using a spatula to have the mixture fully homogenized.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt and mix together.
- Slowly add your dry ingredient bowl to your creamed mixture. Have your mixer on low speed when you're combining them together.
- Check your dough to see how it feels. If it's sticking to your hands add a bit more flour to the dough - 1 tbsp.
- Separate your dough in half. Roll out your dough by flouring the surface of a silicone mat. Flour your rolling pin lightly. Place your dough on top of the floured silicone mat and roll it to 1/4" thickness. Make sure there are no imperfections on the top of your dough. Roll it out so it looks even, with no cracks through it. Repeat with the other dough half.
- Place plastic wrap on top of the dough and put in the fridge for 1-2 hours. You can keep the dough in the fridge for up to 2 days before baking.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and use cookie cutters to cut the dough into cookies. Once you've used your dough to create your first batch of cookies, reroll the dough out to use up the remaining dough to make more cookies. Place the cookies on an aluminum baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. No greasing needed.
- Bake cookies for 11-12 min at 350°F. Your cookies will be finished baking when the edges start turning light brown. Do not overbake. The whole cookie will turn brown if they are overdone. Let the cookies cool for a few min on the baking sheet. Then transfer the cookies to finish cooling on a wire rack ~20 min.
- Decorate your cookies using royal icing or buttercream icing.