Sugar cookies
Sugar cookies, from above
Non vegEggUnited States

Sugar cookies

Buttery cut out cookies that hold their shape for icing. Christmas baking's blank canvas.

90 minTime
4 gProtein each
mildSpice
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Make it your way

Grandma's wayCut out butter cookies with simple icing.
The original
348kcalsame
4 gproteinsame
1 gfibresame
90minutessame

Classic sugar cookies.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

12 servings
Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)2¾ cups
Butter1 cup, soft
Sugar1 cup for dough, 1/2 cup icing sugar
Egg1
Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)1 tsp
Baking powder1 tsp
Salta pinch
Milk1½ tbsp for icing
Sprinkles (hundreds and thousands)to decorate

Method

5 steps
  1. 1Cream butter and 1 cup sugar until fluffy, then beat in egg and vanilla.
  2. 2Mix in flour, baking powder and salt to a soft dough. Chill 1 hour.
  3. 3Roll to 6 mm and cut shapes.
  4. 4Bake at 180°C for 9 to 10 minutes, until just pale gold at the edges.
  5. 5Cool fully, then ice with icing sugar mixed with milk and decorate.
Serve it like this

Arrange iced cookies on a platter or tin with parchment between layers, served with milk or cocoa.

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