Best Sugar Cookie Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 12 teaspoon almond extract (optional)
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 cups all-purpose flour

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. In the bowl of your mixer cream butter and sugar until smooth.
3. Beat in extracts and egg.
4. In a separate bowl combine baking powder with flour and add a little at a time to the wet ingredients.
5. The dough will be very stiff.
6. If it becomes too stiff for your mixer turn out the dough onto a countertop surface.
7. Wet your hands and finish off kneading the dough by hand.
8. DO NOT CHILL THE DOUGH.
9. Divide into workable batches, roll out onto a floured surface and cut.
10. You want these cookies to be on the thicker side (closer to 1/4 inch rather than 1/8).
11. Bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes.
12. Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.