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Back at it with the holiday cookies, but this time it’s one of my favorite all year round cookie recipe. I make these for their birthdays, playdates, literally any event that needs a cookie, or two. These also freeze very well (the dough) so you can bake some, and keep the dough in the freezer for a quick batch.

They’re also super fun to decorate, you can use buttercream or royal icing or just a simple icing to decorate them and have fun.

Sweetapolita

Classic Sugar Cookies

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Chill Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 22 minutes
Servings: 45 cookies
Course: Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 6 cups all purpose flour 750g
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups softened unsalted butter 454g
  • 2 cups sugar 400g
  • 2 cold eggs
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract

Method
 

  1. In a large bowl sift together the dry ingredients
  2. With an electrical mixer using the paddle attachment, cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes
  3. Add in eggs and mix until combined
  4. Add in the dry mix, and mix on low speed until combined and a dough forms
  5. Add vanilla extract and mix
  6. Remove half the dough, make a ball, and place on a large piece of plastic wrap. Wrap the sides of wrap over the ball, then press down with the palm of your hand and make a disc. Finish wrapping the disc with the plastic wrap. Repeat with 2nd half of dough. Chill both discs of dough for about 1 hour.
  7. Once done chilling, remove one of the discs and place the dough in between two parchment papers. It will take a couple of minutes to soften so use some arm strength to roll the dough into desired thickness. I would suggest around 1cm
  8. Chill the rolled out dough in the fridge while you roll out the second piece of dough
  9. Preheat your oven to 160C
  10. Remove the first rolled out dough and cut out desired shapes and place them on parchment paper
  11. If you want to guarantee awesome cookies i would suggest chilling in freezer for 10 min before baking in oven
  12. Bake them for 12-14 min, until the edges are golden
  13. Cool them before removing them as they will be soft to handle upon removing from oven

Notes

This awesome recipe is from Sweetapolita

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