Over the years, we have featured many fun baking ideas suggesting you use your favorite sugar cookie recipe. Today we are sharing “our” favorite sugar cookie recipe.
This sugar cookie recipe is always our go to sugar cookie recipe. The dough is very easy to use and the cookies always come out perfect.
The possibilities are endless with sugar cookies.
- You can use sprinkles, chocolate chips and nuts to decorate or to mix into the dough.
- You can color the dough with food coloring.
- We love dipping a sugar cookie half way in cookie dip and adding a topping.
- This sugar cookie recipe works very well for tarts and linzer cookies.
Best Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1.5 sticks margarine
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- toppings (optional)
Instructions
- Place margarine, sugar, egg and vanilla extract in the bowl of an electric mixer.
- Add flour and mix till a soft dough forms.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface.
- Use cookie cutters to cut cookies out and place them on a parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake the cookies 12-15 minutes or until the edges start getting a golden color.
- Place the cookies on a cooling rack.
- Decorate the cookies (optional).
Notes
Cookie dough can be frozen for up to two month.
