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Best Sugar Cookie Recipes

Celebrate Valentine's or just the sun coming up with these delicious, buttery, fast sugar cookies. The dough uses LOTS of butter (natch) and doesn't have a rest time, so if you have a hankering for delightful cookies covered in Royal Icing and sprinkles, look no further.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings: 10
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: comfort food
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

Cookie Dough
  • 2 cups unsalted butter room temperature
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs room temperature
  • 2 tsp vanilla Optional: substitute scotch or bourbon.
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • 6 cups all purpose flour
Royal Icing
  • 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
  • 1 1/2 TBLS corn syrup
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2-3 TBLS water

Equipment

  • Mixer

Method
 

Cookie Dough
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat.
  3. Add butter and sugar to your mixer.Cream the butter and sugar until it is completely mixed. Do not over-mix.
  4. Add vanilla and eggs and mix untilcompletely incorporated.
  5. Add Baking Powder and mix.
  6. Mix in the flour two cups at a time.
  7. Do not chill the dough, the cookies will bake better if the dough is at room temperature.
  8. Roll a handful of the dough out on a floured surface until it's about 3/8" thick and cut out shapes with a cookie cutter.
  9. Bake at 350 degrees for 6-8 minutes depending on the size of the cookie. Do not over-bake.
  10. Frost with Royal Icing and sprinkles.
Royal Icing
  1. Mix icing sugar, corn syrup and vanilla.
  2. Smooth with a spatula to reduce lumps.
  3. Add any dye if using (gel or powder is better because it has less liquid). Add water bit by bit so it is spreadable but not too runny.
  4. Put icing in a piping bag or squeeze bottle.
  5. Top with sprinkles.
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