Sugar Cookies
Delicious Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup unbleached flour level the top off.
- 1/4 cup cake flour regular white is okay
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 stick chilled unsalted butter, cut into 16 pieces
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 TBS cold water plus droplets if needed
Instructions
- Prepare work surface with a light flouring
- Using a food processor, pluse flours, salt, and butter until blended well, about 1 minute
- Add sugar, process into mixture
- Add egg yolk, vanilla, and water
- Process for a few seconds until dough balls up on the sides
- Remove and put on your prepared work surface
- Working the dough into a ball then push out small pieces smashing working the dough so the dough is gently worked throughly
- Shape the dough back into a cake shape
- Wrap in plastic wrap, chill until cold and hard
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- When the dough is not sticky and still cold, half it
- Cover half of the dough and return to the refrigerator
- Lightly flour the top of dough and rolling pin. Be careful to not be heavy handed with the flour.
- Quickly roll out to desired thickness
- For crispier, roll to 1/8 in thickness
- Cut out cookies while the remaining dough is chilling
- Bake on nonstick cookie sheet or parchment paper
- If you don't want the cookies puffy, pick gently with a fork
- If the dough splits, push together patting it smooth or lightly roll
- Add sprinkles or other decorations for baking
- Bake on middle rack for 8 -10 minutes at 400 degrees
- If thinly rolled, gentle remove cookies to rack for cooling
- Dough will keep 2 -3 days. It also freezes well.