A simple recipe for sugar cookies?

I’ve made these Molasses sugar cookies, which were wonderful, and also these which were very basic sugar cookies that tasted great. Both were simple enough. Here are a lot more to check out.

Why make only three? Just make a batch, and then store them in a sealed jar for later. They are so good you won’t regret it!

Prep Time: 15 min Inactive Prep Time: 2 hr 0 min Cook Time: 9 min
Level:
Easy Serves: about 3 dozen-2½ inch
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 tablespoon milk
Powdered sugar, for rolling out dough
Directions
Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. Place butter and sugar in large bowl of electric stand mixer and beat until light in color. Add egg and milk and beat to combine. Put mixer on low speed, gradually add flour, and beat until mixture pulls away from the side of the bowl. Divide the dough in half, wrap in waxed paper, and refrigerate for 2 hours.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Sprinkle surface where you will roll out dough with powdered sugar. Remove 1 wrapped pack of dough from refrigerator at a time, sprinkle rolling pin with powdered sugar, and roll out dough to ¼-inch thick. Move the dough around and check underneath frequently to make sure it is not sticking. If dough has warmed during rolling, place cold cookie sheet on top for 10 minutes to chill. Cut into desired shape, place at least 1-inch apart on greased baking sheet, parchment, or silicone baking mat, and bake for 7 to 9 minutes or until cookies are just beginning to turn brown around the edges, rotating cookie sheet halfway through baking time. Let sit on baking sheet for 2 minutes after removal from oven and then move to complete cooling on wire rack. Serve as is or ice as desired. Store in airtight container for up to 1 week.

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I’ve been making a ton of these lately for some reason. This is my mom’s recipe from WAYYYY back and it’s soft and easy to roll out. You can use butter in place of Crisco. If you only want a few cookies, either make all and freeze what you don’t eat, or freeze the dough and only use what you want each time. If you don’t have cookie cutters, you can use a glass and make round cookies. If you don’t have a rolling pin, just press them out with your hands, or roll into balls and they’ll flatten out when you bake them.

3 c. flour
2 t. baking powder
1 t. baking soda

Mix in 1 c. Crisco into the dry mixture

Mix these next 3 ingredients together:
2 eggs
1 c. sugar
1 t. vanilla
and then mix in with the dry ingredients. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least an hour. Roll out on a floured pastry cloth and cut with your choice of cookie cutter. Bake at 350 degrees until just barely light brown. Frost when cooled, or you can sprinkle the cut out cookies with sugar before baking if you just want that instead.

WalMart has plain sugar cookies for about $1.50 for two dozen. thats cheap comparing to making them. and, they are not bad.