Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe - Cookie Exchange Season!

Tis the season for Cookie Exchange!  Here is an easy sugar cookie recipe for all you exchangers of sweet treats.  I great basic cookie dough to start off with - good if you are a newbie at cookies.

EASY SUGAR COOKIES

Makes approximately 30 – 36 cookies, depending on how thin you roll out your dough

Ingredients:

-          1 cup butter (room temperature, not frozen and not melted)

-          1 cup sugar

-          1 large egg

-          1 tsp vanilla extract

-          2 tsp baking powder

-          2 ¾ cups white all-purpose flour

Directions:

1)      Heat oven to 400 degrees  F.

2)      Cream together butter and sugar.

3)      Add egg and vanilla.

4)      In a separate bowl, mix together flour and baking powder.

5)      Add dry into wet ingredients and mix together until dough forms.

6)      On a dry floured table, pour dough out, knead slightly, and then roll out flat to about 1cm thick.

7)      Use cookie cutters and cut out shapes.

8)      Place on a lightly greased baking sheet (no need for parchment or re-flouring).

9)      Bake for 7-10 minutes.  DO NOT OVERBAKE!  IF YOU START SEEING BROWNING EDGES THEN YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR AND COOKIE WILL BE DRY!

10)   Let cool before decorating.