Heavenly Sugar Cookies Recipe

Heavenly Sugar Cookies

Ingredients
3/4 cup sugar
10 tablespoons butter (softened)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 large egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
Frosting of your choice
Clear nylon fishing line (optional)

Directions
In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar, butter, baking powder, and salt with an electric mixer at low speed until blended. Increase speed to high and beat until light and fluffy.

Reduce speed to low and add milk, vanilla extract, and egg then beat until blended. Don’t worry if mixture looks curdled.

Stir in flour until blended. Shape dough into 2 balls, flatten each slightly. Wrap each with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour or until dough is easy to handle.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. On a lightly floured surface, with floured rolling pin, roll 1 piece of dough 1/8 inch thick, keeping remaining dough refrigerated.

With floured 3- to 4-inch assorted cookie cutters, cut dough into as many cookies as possible, reserve trimmings. Place cookies, about
1 inch apart, on 2 ungreased large cookie sheets. Roll trimmings and cut out more cookies.

(Optional) With a toothpick make 1 or 2 holes in top of each cookie for hanging on wreath or tree later.

Bake cookies 12 to 15 minutes until golden around edges, rotating cookie sheets between upper and lower racks halfway through baking time if you have used both upper and lower oven racks. Remove cookies to wire racks to cool. Repeat with remaining dough.

When cookies are cool, prepare frosting and use to decorate cookies as desired. Set cookies aside to allow frosting to dry completely, at least 1 hour. If not using right away, store in tightly covered container.

For wreath or tree decoration, tie nylon fishing line through hole in each cookie to make a loop for hanging.

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