These classic Scratch-made Easy Sugar Cookies have a super soft texture and amazing buttery flavor. A great basic sugar cookie recipe that you can enjoy plain, frost, or make ice cream sandwiches.
I’m just thankful I snapped this quick picture before the boys knew these cookies where out of the oven!
When I started baking with Lincoln when he was, gosh, probably two-year old, this is the Sugar Cookie that we made. For years, the boys only wanted to make Sugar Cookies, but have recently started making Chocolate Chip cookies. They usually eat more of the dough than the baked cookies. I’ll have to say, I enjoy the dough more as well!
I made these cookies this time to go with Peach Ice Cream that I’m turning into Peach Ice Cream Sandwiches like I recently had, and loved, while at The Masters Gold Tournament. You can see all those golf pictures here and well as The Masters Famous Pimento Cheese Sandwich.
Do not refrigerate this dough before baking. This cookie is an excellent cookie to decorate.
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 and 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 and 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In a large bowl using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.. Add to butter mixture a little at a time. Mix well after each addition. Roll dough to 1/8 inch thickness. It may be easier to work with to separate the dough into two parts. Dip cookie cutter in flour before cutting. Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet 6 to 7 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool 2 minutes on cookie sheet before removing to wire rack to cool completely.
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I can’t believe my blog is over a year old already. Don’t forget the great recipes that I shared!
Brittany Hudson says
I tried this episode and it was good but a little too salty so I added more sugar but I would make with less salt next time
Star says
Hello,
I baked these sugar cookies tonight. I followed the recipe/Instructions precisely. Seperated wet and dry ingredients and added them together slowly. However the dough was super crumbly and almost impossible to to keep the cookies from flaking apart as I tried to place them on the cookie sheet. I had to spend alot of time/patience patting the cookies together in the palm of my hand. Where did I go wrong? on the upside the taste was great when they came out of the oven and my kids loved them, just wish they weren’t so difficult to handle before placing them in the oven… Any tips??
Paula says
I don’t know what happened if you followed the ingredients precisely. I’ve never had a problem with them. Did you use a large egg? Using a large egg is standard in all recipes unless noted otherwise, but that would not have made a huge difference in the moisture. Did you sift the flour? That is the only other thing I see as not sifting would result in more flour and the cookies being drier.
Amy Clark Scheren says
These look just like the cookies my grandma would bake every single time we came to town. Look yummy!
Paula says
I think mine Granny made the same ones! those were the days!
Cindy Eikenberg says
Paula, I have to tell you, I LOVE sugar cookies so much and these look totally delicious and so perfect! Could you please hand me one through the screen? 😉 Thanks for sharing and pinning! Have a fun and happy weekend!
Danni@SiloHillFarm says
I love a good sugar cookie…but I always feel the need to frost them!! Your blog is a year old already?? Way to go girl!!
Wanda Ann. @ Memories by the Mile says
Paula,
These cookies are so pretty and round and perfect. I love that you don’t have to refrigerate them. I’m pinning them now so I can make them soon.
Hugs,
Wanda Ann @ Memories by the Mile
Jeannie says
Sugar cookies are my favorite. You can do so much with one recipe!