Sugar Cookies with Frosting Recipe
Equipment
- Spoon
- Measuring equipment
- 2 Medium bowls
- Baking sheet
- Baking paper
- Oven mitt
- Whisk or blender
Ingredients
Sugar Cookies
- 1½ cup wheat flour
- ⅔ stick butter
- 1 egg
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp almond extract (optional)
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
Icing
- ⅓ cup salted butter (softened)
- 1⅓ cup powdered sugar
- 1-2 tbsp milk
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 drop almond extract (optional)
Instructions
Sugar Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350.
- In a small skillet, cook the butter at medium heat.
- When the butter is brown, remove pan and place in into one bowl.
- Mix all dry ingredients together in a separate bowl.
- Stir butter to make it cool faster.
- Once butter temperature has dropped, add vanilla extract and stir together.
- Crack in bowl and beat egg into ingredients.
- Both sift and stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until a cohesive dough is formed.
- Put baking paper on baking sheet.
- Once the dough is formed, make 1-inch balls.
- Roll cookie dough balls in 1/4 cup of granulated sugar.
- Bake cookies for ten minutes on the bottom rack, then bring them to the top rack for the last two minutes.
- Best served warm.
Icing
- Place softened butter in a bowl.
- Add milk to butter, then consolidate ingredients with a whisk or a blender.
- Slowly add powdered sugar while stirring the sugar into the butter mixture.
- Stir in vanilla extract and almond extract.
- Using a knife, apply frosting to cookies.