Sugar Cookies
Total Time: 3 hrs 17 mins
Preparation Time: 3 hrs 7 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 15
- 4 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 250 g butter
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
Recipe
- 1 bring your butter to room temperature first (softened but not melted).
- 2 beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy, add eggs one at a time beating well. add vanilla essence and mix through. add dry ingredients and mix to combine.
- 3 separate into 3 equal parts, wrap in glad wrap (plastic food wrap) and refrigerat for at least 3 hours (best over night), can be left in fridge for up to 3 days, and can be frozen like this for up to a month.
- 4 after it has been chilled, pre heat oven to 180c knead to soften slightly and roll out on a floured board. cut into desired shapes and bake until just starting to turn colour (for a soft cookie) or until golden (for a crunchy cookie).
- 5 these are so easy --
- 6 then ice any which way you want.
- 7 can be stored in an air tight container for up to a week.
- 8 you can also add different flavouring instead of the vanilla eg lemon juice and zest, almond extract, cinnamon, etc etc.
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