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Vanilla Sugar Cookies

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Easy Christmas sugar cookie recipe | Veggie Mama

Vanilla Sugar Cookies

  • Author: Stacey Roberts | Veggie Mama
  • Prep Time: 40 mins
  • Cook Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 55 mins
  • Yield: 40 small cookies 1x
  • Category: Baking
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: American
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Description

Simple, crunchy sugar cookies just right for the holiday season. Or any time! Every time!

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Ingredients

  • 100g butter, softened
  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • 1 Large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla (more if you’re into that sort of thing!)
  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 pinch salt

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar.
  2. Add egg and vanilla and mix until fully incorporated.
  3. Stir the baking powder and salt into the flour, then add to the egg/sugar/butter and mix gently.
  4. When it has all come together, and pat into a flat disc on a plate. Cover with a tea towel and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes or so, until fairly firm – you want it to roll without being sticky and soft, but also not too hard.
  5. When dough is ready, roll fairly thin (about half a centimetre is usually more than enough) on a well-floured surface, and cut into shapes.
  6. Place on cookie trays.
  7. Bake at 160-180C for 10-15 minutes, checking after 10 mins. You don’t want them to brown too much on the edges (or all the way through if they’re super-thin).
  8. Cool on wire racks and decorate as you wish!

Keywords: sugar cookies, christmas sugar cookies, sugar biscuits, decorating biscuits, christmas cookies

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  1. Kerry L says

    December 23, 2013 at 7:09 am

    I’ve been looking for a good biscuit recipe to make decorated biscuits with – will have to try this one, your recipes ALWAYS work out well for me 🙂

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  1. […] Then we moved, and I was throwing peanut butter sandwiches and handfuls of sultanas at them at regular intervals. I think it’s time to step it up a notch! Anyway, before we moved, this was what was happening at toddler snack time… We were getting colourful with Ikea ice trays, filling them with chopped banana, strawberries and blueberries, sultanas, cashews (for the older kid with actual teeth!), and some Cocoa Pop knockoffs (I think they were from Aldi? I can’t remember!). Oh and little round crackers that came in special Christmas cracker trios from Aldi.  Banana, slices of apple, and pieces of cheese. Abby still won’t eat the cheese. Sultanas, Cheerios, and one of my sugar cookies. […]

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