Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

1 1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar

1 Cup Unsalted Butter at room temperature

1 Large Egg

2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract

2 1/2 Flour

1 Teaspoon Baking Powder

1/2 Teaspoon Salt

Instructions:

Using an electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in a large bowl until light.

Beat in egg and vanilla.

Add flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix to combine.

Divide dough in half. Gather each piece into a ball and flatten into disks, Wrap in plastic and chill for 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Roll out 1 dough disk on floured surface to 1/8th thickness (thinker for softer cookies thinner for crispier cookies). Using assorted cookie cutter, cut out cookies.

Transfer cookies to ungreased baking sheets, spacing 1 inch apart.

Bake cookies until pale golden, about 11-13 minutes. (less time will be softer cookies, and more time the cookies will be crispier)

Transfer cookies to a cooling rack.

Repeat with remaining dough disk.

Ice and decorate to your taste.

This is a very easy and tasty recipe. I went through quite a few different sugar cookie recipes and this is by far my favorite.