Buttery Sugar Cookies

Name: Buttery Sugar Cookies
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 48
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 large egg; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sugar; 237 milliliters coarse sanding sugar (see Cooks Note); 237 milliliters sticks unsalted butter, softened; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Buttery Sugar Cookies is a vegetarian dessert. One serving contains 87 calories, 1g of protein, and 4g of fat. This recipe serves 48. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 5 hours. Head to the store and pick up butter, flour, salt, and a few other things to make it today. It will be a hit at your Christmas event.

Instructions

Beat together butter, sugar, and salt in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes in a stand mixer (preferably fitted with paddle attachment) or 6 with a handheld. Beat in egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to low, then mix in flour.

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Vanilla

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Stand Mixer

Bowl

Halve dough and form each half into a disk, then wrap in wax paper. Put each disk in a resealable plastic bag and chill until firm enough to roll into balls, about 1 hour.

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Dough

Roll

Wrap

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Ziploc Bags

Wax Paper

Heat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Oven

While oven heats, work with 1 piece of dough (keep remaining dough chilled).

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Dough

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Oven

Roll 1 level tablespoon of dough into a ball, then roll in coarse sugar in a shallow bowl to coat completely. (If dough becomes too soft to roll easily into balls, quick-chill in the freezer or chill in the refrigerator.)

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Coarse Sugar

Dough

Roll

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Bowl

Place balls 2 inches apart on a lined baking sheet. With the flat bottom of a glass, flatten balls into 2-inch rounds.

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Baking Sheet

Bake cookies, one sheet at time, until bottoms are golden, 12 to 15 minutes total. Cool on sheets 2 minutes, then transfer with a metal spatula to racks to cool completely. Make more cookies with remaining dough on cooled baking sheets.

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Spatula

•Coarse sanding sugars come in many different colors and are available at specialty foods stores and New York Cake & Baking Distributor. Use one color or mix up several colors. The most important thing is to have fun.