I don't know about you, but I always have a hard time making good sugar cookies. They either spread out too much, or get too floury when you roll them out. I just always have issues making tasty cut-out sugar cookies. The problem with this, is that I really like sugar cookies! They're so good! I know not everyone will agree, but I like them. :)
Anyway, it's becoming a tradition in our family to make heart-shaped sugar cookies on Valentine's day. And this year I found a winner recipe, so I thought I'd share it.
Here it is:
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Powdered sugar, for rolling out dough
Directions
Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. Place butter and sugar in large bowl of electric stand mixer and beat until light in color. Add egg and milk and vanilla and beat to combine. Put mixer on low speed, gradually add flour, and beat until mixture pulls away from the side of the bowl. Divide the dough in half, wrap in waxed paper, and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Sprinkle surface where you will roll out dough with powdered sugar. Remove 1 wrapped pack of dough from refrigerator at a time, sprinkle rolling pin with powdered sugar, and roll out dough to 1/4-inch thick. Move the dough around and check underneath frequently to make sure it is not sticking. If dough has warmed during rolling, place cold cookie sheet on top for 10 minutes to chill. Cut into desired shape, place at least 1-inch apart on greased baking sheet, parchment, or silicone baking mat, and bake for 7 to 9 minutes or until cookies are just beginning to turn brown around the edges, rotating cookie sheet halfway through baking time. Let sit on baking sheet for 2 minutes after removal from oven and then move to complete cooling on wire rack. Serve as is or ice as desired. Store in airtight container for up to 1 week.
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown.
Make sure you follow the directions exactly and they will be divine!
3 comments:
I can't wait to try these. I never thought of rolling them out on powdered sugar. I have always done flour. Powdered sugar sounds better. I mean, they are SUGAR cookies.
I'm not really one for making sugar cookies. They're too time consuming for my taste, but I think I'll have to try these. It's kind of an unwritten rule that once you have kids you HAVE to make sugar cookies for them to decorate!
I agree with the time-consuming comment, which is why we usually just make them once a year. Haha. I do have to say though, that these seemed to go really fast! I made the dough ahead of time and had it in the fridge, then we cut them out together, it ended up being pretty fun! Plus, this batch isn't huge, so it doesn't take forever and a day to cut them all out.
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