Roll-Out Sugar Cookies

These chewy cookies have a rich buttery nasty (to with out a doubt cream the butter, guarantee to mix for no longer no longer up to 4 minutes on medium-low velocity), can even be made chocolate by a straightforward cocoa powder addition, and take fantastically to marbling by combining the 2 doughs.

These cookies are straightforward, so it be critical to focus to the info. To diminish completely formed cookies, it be critical to make a few things:

Relax (the dough): To defend the dough from terrified when it’s rolled, decrease, and baked, the protein strands that developed for the length of blending prefer to aloof down within the fridge. Plus, at the same time as you’re utilizing a cookie cutter with a complete bunch nooks and crannies, icy dough is more liable to defend the form. Erin also cools her cookies for five to 10 minutes within the freezer (or 15 within the fridge) after reducing to diminish spreading.

Within the reduction of with care: It’s most efficient to diminish cookies from the identical evenly rolled sheet of dough. Be obvious to lightly flour your cutter and decrease as shut collectively as that you simply might perchance perchance perhaps almost definitely imagine. Don’t neglect you might perchance perchance perhaps almost definitely switch your cookie cutter’s attitude or course to in discovering basically the most out of your roll-out.

These cookies taste so magnificent that they don’t even need frosting, but at the same time as you are making desire unbiased a minute more magic, simply dip your cookies in melted chocolate and add any relaxing toppings you adore—we adore a complete bunch colored sugars, sprinkles, candy pearls, toasted nuts, or overwhelmed peppermints (no longer entirely make they add some sparkle, they will also duvet up any mistakes). Precise guarantee the cookies are entirely icy first or your decorations will melt off. —The Editors

Directions

1. In a clear bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon to mix.
2. Within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the roam attachment, cream the butter and sugar for 4 to 5 minutes, till light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and mix to mix, scraping properly after the total lot is integrated.
3. Add the flour mixture without warning (except your mixer bodily can’t take care of that) and pulse the mixer a few cases to lead certain of a floury cloud from poofing up out of the bowl. Combine on low velocity, scraping down the bowl as wanted, magnificent till the flour is integrated. Set aside the dough precise into a disc and wrap in plastic wrap. Relax for 1 hour.
4. Warmth the oven to 350°F. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to ½ lumber thick. Within the reduction of the dough utilizing your favourite cookie cutter and switch to a parchment-lined baking sheet.
5. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, till the cookies are lightly golden around the perimeters. For even baking, rotate the pan halfway by plan of. Switch the baked cookies to a wire rack and let icy entirely earlier than decorating or serving.
6. If you are dipping the cookies in chocolate, melt your chocolate of decision over a double boiler or within the microwave in increments of 10 to 20 seconds till melted. Dip the cookies half within the chocolate, sprinkle with desired toppings, and lay on wax paper till icy.
7. NOTE: To agree with chocolate sugar cookies, decrease the flour to 2¾ cups and add ½ cup cocoa powder. To agree with marbled cookies, agree with one batch of vanilla dough and one batch of chocolate dough and mix to desired ratio.