Pumpkins, Ghosts, Moons,and Cats… Sugar Cookies!
I love cookie cutters. Over the years I’ve collected quite a few including a roller skate, a musical note, and an umbrella.
Today we’re making Halloween sugar cookies. I didn’t want to wait while the dough chilled, and I didn’t have any shortening either, so I tried a different recipe. I like this recipe because it is simple, but the cookies did come out dry. They definitely need frosting, but Jesse didn’t want to wait and is gobbling them down.
Sugar Cookies - Wilton Recipe
With no chilling time necessary, these cookies can be made quickly.
-= Ingredients =-
1 cup Butter ; room temperature
1 cup Sugar
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1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 ea Egg
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3 cups Flour ; sifted
2 teaspoon Baking powder
-= Instructions =-
Preheat oven to 400. In a large mixer bowl, cream butter and sugar until well combined. Beat in vanilla and egg.
Sift flour and baking soda together. Add to creamed mixture, one cup at a time, mixing after each addition.
Dough will be very stiff.
DO NOT CHILL DOUGH!
Divide dough in half. On floured surface, roll dough about to 1/8 thick. Dip cutters in flour before each use. Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet on top rack of oven for 6-7 minutes, or until lightly browned.
Makes 2-3 dozen cookies.
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Ah, now I know where I got my cookie cutter collecting habit from. April bought me a huge bin of cookie cutters for Christmas last year. I can’t wait to bust out the halloween ones in a few weeks.