This is the best sugar cookie recipe because you can roll and cut to your hearts content with this easy to make and bake dough. This recipe is a keeper!
Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies
This is the best sugar cookie recipe because you can roll and cut to your hearts content with this easy to make and bake dough. This recipe is a keeper!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter at room temperature.
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs lightly beaten
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
Instructions
- In a large bowl or stand mixer, beat together butter and sugar until well blended.
- Add the lightly beaten eggs and vanilla extract, beating well.
- Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and combine well.
- Sift 2 3/4 cups of flour mixture over butter mixture and beat with the paddle attachment of a stand mixer or a wooden spoon until the flour is incorporated and dough forms a ball.
- Dough should be pliable, not sticky. Add more flour 1 Tbsp. at a time if needed.
- Divide dough into 4 balls, wrap and chill until ready to roll and cut.
- Preheat oven set on bake to 350 degrees F.
- Roll dough out 1/8-1/4 thick on a lightly floured surface or between two sheets of wax paper.
- Dip cutters into flour and cut your shapes.
- Place cookies 11/2 inches apart on greased baking sheets or non-stick baking mats.
- Bake 8-12 minutes or until cookies are golden and beginning to brown around the edges.
- Cool for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Frost and decorate!
Recipe Notes
**Dough can be made ahead and refrigerated for up to a week. I sometimes make it a home and bring it to my daughters to make cookies.
Use my decorative cookie icing recipe to decorate these!
Kristen Coffield
I am the Founder of Active Grandparenting™ & The Culinary Cure™ and Author of Active Grandparenting. I am a passionate advocate for food as medicine, life navigator and culinary coach. This is my space for sharing what excites, inspires and motivates me to live my best life. It began as a recipe blog for nourishing, simple, weekday meals and has become something much bigger… a guide to resilient wellness. I am excited to share my knowledge of how daily habits can cumulatively help you to live like you mean it and age like you want to.
