Best Sugar Cookie
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup superfine sugar, or granulated sugar, processed in blender or food processor for 30 seconds
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp Almond extract , optional
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
Instructions
- Cream butter, sugar, and salt until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes with a mixer set at medium speed.
- Add yolk, and beat well. Add whole egg, vanilla
- Add flour; beat at low speed just until flour is mixed in; do not overmix.
- Divide the dough into halves or thirds and wrap it in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least one hour or up to 2 days.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Dust the work surface and rolling pin with flour. Roll the dough to 1/4" thick, sprinkling with additional flour as needed to prevent sticking.
- Cut into desired shapes and place on parchment or silicone-lined pans. Bake in a preheated oven until cookies appear dry on the surface and are light golden brown on the edges, about 10 minutes depending on the size of the cookies.
- Remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks and cool completely before decorating.