Perfect Sugar Cookie Recipe

sPerfect Sugar Cookie Recipe is really just that- PERFECT. These sugar cookies come together quickly with only 6 ingredients; butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, flour and baking powder. The cookies keep shape while baking, are soft and chewy, plus there is NO refrigeration! This Sugar Cookie recipe is PERFECTION!

Perfect Sugar Cookie Recipe will not disappoint! There is not much better than a perfect sugar cookie.. but there also isn’t much worse than a bad one!

These sugar cookies get 6 gold stars in my book. Here is why:

1. The dough is super simple. Now that I have the recipe memorized, I can throw the dough together in 5 minutes flat.
2. NO CHILLING THE DOUGH. I can’t be the only one who never has patience for dough chilling.. right?
3. You want a horse sugar cookie? After these bake, you’ll still have a horse cookie. Not some lumpy unicorn looking thing. 😉 These cookies keep their shape!
4. Soft, soft, soft, soft, SOFT.  Oh, and chewy.
5. They are still sturdy, even though they are soft & chewy.
6. The cookies are an amazing base for some serious frosting work. Here is my absolute favorite Sugar Cookie Frosting Recipe!

There are a few things that I’d never make sugar cookies without. My KitchenAid Mixer is number 1. This dough comes together in literally 5 minutes because of my mixer.

I have a marble rolling pin that is a dream. The rolling pin itself is really heavy, so rolling the dough out is no work at all. My mom had a marble rolling pin when I was growing up and I gifted myself one for Easter a few years back. (What? You don’t give your self gifts for Easter? Well, I think you should.)

Lastly, I couldn’t live without my silicon cookie sheet liners. I never have to worry about cookies sticking to the cookie sheet again! 

Perfect Sugar Cookies

(Printable Recipe Below)

Perfect Sugar Cookie Recipe is really just that- PERFECT. These sugar cookies come together quickly with only 6 ingredients; butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, flour and baking powder. The cookies keep shape while baking, are soft and chewy, plus there is NO refrigeration! This Sugar Cookie recipe is PERFECTION!

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter room temperature
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 3 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 batch Sugar Cookie Frosting

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer for a full 3 minutes.
3. Scrape sides and add in vanilla and egg. Mix until combined.
4. Add flour and baking powder to the bowl. Mix slowly at first gradually getting faster until the dough comes together. The texture should be like Playdoh. Add a little flour or water if needed to get it to a soft, pliable consistency.
5. Turn out onto a floured surface. Use a rolling pin and roll until about 1/4 inch thick. (The cookies will not rise while baking, they will not get thinner while baking. Roll out to your desired FINISHED thickness.)
6. Use cookie cutters and cut out desired shapes. Transfer the cookies to a silicone lined cookie sheet.
7. Bake at 350° for 6-8 minutes or until the centers are puffy and no longer glossy. Pull the cookies out of the oven BEFORE they start turning brown. If they turn brown, the cookie will be dry and ‘crackery’ instead of soft and chewy.
8. Frost with Sugar Cookie Frosting and Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

When gathering up the dough scraps, wet your hands and then ‘knead’ the dough until it is soft and playdoh like again. This dough is great to work with, there is no such thing as over kneading this dough!

TRY THESE OTHER COOKIE RECIPES:

Perfectly Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
The Everything Cookie

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