Cut Out Sugar Cookie Recipe

 I don’t mean for most of my posts to be recipes, but I do love that I am getting them all in one place! We thought we would put together a recipe book eventually to share with family so having them here means printing and putting them in a binder eventually. Most of the work is getting done!

I know I've already shared a sugar cookie recipe, but today my daughter and I made dough and used some baking supplies her grandma sent her. She had been asking to make cookies and to use her unicorn and heart cookie cutters, so I decided to do that with her today. 

The recipe I found came from Life Love and Sugar and it worked out great! I will be revisiting this recipe with a great buttercream frosting come the holiday season. I did sneak in a few gingerbread men and snowflakes since my daughter wanted to play with the other cutters!

I was happy that they only spread a slight bit. Definitely a winner to keep around. 

See the recipe below!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder

Recipe:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

2. Cream butter and sugar together for 3-4 minutes, until light and fluffy.

3. Add egg and vanilla extract and mix until combined.

4. Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl, then add to wet ingredients and mix until well combined. Dough will be very thick. You will need to use your hands to help it all come together.

4. On a lightly floured surface and using smaller amounts of dough at a time, roll out dough to about 1/8 to a 1/4 inch. 

5. Use cookie cutters to cut out cookies, then transfer to cookie sheet. 

6. Bake cookies 6-8 minutes. Remove from oven just before they start to brown on the edges.

7. Allow cookies to cool for 5 minutes, then move to cooling rack to finish cooling.

There is NO chill time for this recipe! That's so great when you have an eager toddler or you've forgotten to make the dough ahead of time.

Enjoy!

With heart from our home,

Jordan