Sam's Sweets

Prep time: 20 min. Cook Time : 8 min. Ready: 3 hours

Yield : 30 cookies

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter, softened

1 cup white sugar

2 eggs

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

Directions

1. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth.

2. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

3. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt.

4. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).

5. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

6. Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick.

7. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter.

8. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.

9. Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.

Today in class we made sugar cookies. One thing our group did really well was that we made sure to not overmixed our dough so it wouldn't crumble. One thing our group could have worked on is the proportioning of the cookies. Making sure that all of the cookies were spread evenly. If I were to redo this recipe one thing I would have worked on is my icing spread that I put on top of the cookies. What we learned that is important to this recipe is that when spreading the icing, that the bag should be held at a 90 degree angle.