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Sugar Cookies (that hold their shape!)

Sugar Cookies

These delicious sugar cookies are easy to make, don't require chilling, and hold their shape once baked! Frost, decorate, and enjoy for every holiday!
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Course: Dessert
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup unsalted butter softened
  • 1 cup white granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ tsp almond extract
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ cup cornstarch
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar.
  3. Mix in extracts and eggs.
  4. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, salt, and cornstarch then slowly add to the larger bowl of wet ingredients, the dough will be thick.
  5. In small batches, roll the dough on a floured surface to ¼ inch thickness and cut shapes using cookies cutters.
  6. Line your cookie sheet with a silicone mat or parchment paper and bake cookies for 6-8 minutes. The cookies will be soft, but not gooey. Let them cool on the cookie sheet for about 5 minutes to firm up before transferring to a wired rack for final cooling.

Notes

  • This dough does not need to be chilled, but if you must chill it, you can leave it out on the counter for about 10 minutes to warm up before rolling out.
  • The number of cookies this recipe yields will depend on the size of your cookie cutter. I usually get about 4-5 dozen cookies using 3-inch cutters.