American Sugar Cookies
Sugar Cookies are brilliant covered in buttercream and decorated. For a quick, festive finish, dip the cookies into buttercream about half way up the biscuit and dry on a wire rack.
Servings: 24 cookies
Equipment
- Cookie Sheet
- Wire rack
- Glass mixing bowl
- Seasonal cookie cutters
Ingredients
- 75 grams butter
- 200 grams sugar caster
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 250 grams plain flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Cream together the butter and sugar.
- Mix in egg, vanilla extract, salt, baking powder and flour.
- Add in food colouring (if using).
- Either roll up like a log for "slice and bake" or roll out on a floured surface and use cookie cutters to make shapes.
- Transfer dough to a baking sheet.
- Bake at 180 C for 8 to 10 minutes until edges are brown.
- Cool on wire rack.
- Decorate as desired.
