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How to Make Basic Sugar Cookie Dough

Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:09 pm
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Sugar cookie dough is a great way to create all sorts of interesting cookies with the same basic dough. Depending on how you cut the dough, or form certain shapes, the possibilities are endless.baked sugar cookies

See also:

Making and Decorating Sugar Cookies with Icing

Ingredients

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • Powdered sugar, for rolling out dough

raw cookie dough

wrapped dough

chilled cookie dough log

Method

Place flour, baking powder, and salt in a work bowl, whisk together to combine. Set aside.

Place butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer and beat until light in color.

Add egg and milk and beat to combine.

Put mixer on low speed, gradually add flour, and beat until the dough comes together.

Place the dough on parchment paper and form into a log. Roll up in the wax paper and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. This dough can be left in the refrigerator for the next day, or frozen for a month.

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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Now that the dough has harneded in the refrigerator unwrap the parchment paper and slice your cookies with a sharp knife to about 1/4 inch thick.

Lay out your sliced dough on a cookie sheet and place back in the refrigerator for 10-20 minutes.

Then bake for 10-14 minutes.

Store in airtight container for up to 1 week.



Comments
Mon May 05, 2008 7:20 pm
Name: Anonymous | Comment: thanx for the helpful info!
Mon May 05, 2008 7:21 pm
Name: Anonymous | Comment: It really tastes good!
Tue May 20, 2008 6:51 pm
Name: Ala | Comment: OMG HAT LOOKS AWESOME!!!!!!
Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:14 pm
Name: guest | Comment: wow it tastes so good
Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:39 pm
Name: Anonymous | Comment: Would using salted butter work
Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:09 pmthere is anywhere from 1/4 to 3/4 teaspoon of salt per stick of salted butter, and this recipe calls for a total of 1/4 teaspoon of salt.

this recipe also calls for 1 cup of butter - or 2 sticks, so that would probably be too salty. but of course it would work. just don't add any extra salt.

i am sure the cookies will still come out good.
Sat Aug 02, 2008 2:08 pm
Name: anonymous | Comment: does it actually need baking powder
Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:10 pmif you do not use baking powder the cookies will not rise at all since no CO2 will be produced or released. but if you do not want to use baking powder they will still come out good, maybe a bit crunchy or dense, although they will still taste good. it is a matter of texture.
Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:39 pm
Name: www.wyldearts.com | Comment: These cookies taste great. I have made some, to try it out, now I am going to increase all of the ingrediants by exactly 10 times and have 10 times the cookies. I love cookies.
Sun Nov 16, 2008 6:12 am
Name: Guest | Comment: Can you add chocolate to make it chocolate cookies?
Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:00 pmThis recipe is very flexible, you can add cocoa powder to make them chocolate. You can replace some of the flour with cocoa powder. For 3 cups of flour used in this recipe, use 2 1/2 cups of flour and replace with 1/2 cup cocoa powder.

If you already have the dough made then just roll in about 1/2 cup of cocoa powder and add a little milk or half and half if necessary. You could even use melted dark chocolate instead. We added multiple kinds of chocolate when we created the triple chocolate cookies. Triple Chocolate Cookies
Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:53 pm
Name: PersoninWorld | Comment:
Sounds really good. Is it?
Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:35 pm
Name: Anonymus | Comment: It looks realy good, I'm going to try it tonight for a recipe called 'Holiday Frosties'. Hope it's a success
Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:33 am
Name: Mariyah | Comment: I forgot to put them in the refridgerator!!!!!!!!!
Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:01 pm
Name: Zil | Comment: This was useful.
Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:51 pm
Name: Amber | Comment: is this italian cookies?
Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:08 pm
Name: ashley | Comment: thank you very much i been trieing to find a web site about how to make cookie dough
all day but now i found it thank you so much by.
Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:23 pm
Name: nikki | Comment: yumm me n my friends wanted cookie dough n we were looking all day n we finaly foud it n its reele good
Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:22 pm
Name: Erin:D | Comment: doo you have to put it in the fridge or can you make it and put it straight in the oven
Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:34 pmYou can try it anyway you want. The real reason to put it in the fridge is to make sure the butter is cold so it does not spread out too much in the oven.

Another option if you can't wait is to roll each cookie dough scoop in white sugar. They taste great and it seems to help keep them together better.
Sun Feb 01, 2009 4:46 pm
Name: Mic | Comment: I am pretty impressed this is perfect
Sat May 09, 2009 1:22 pm
Name: Kderrough | Comment: Lovely cookies!!!
Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:28 am
Name: axel | Comment: is this soft cookie dough....
Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:32 pm
Name: Rebecca | Comment: This is so good i wanted to eat the cookie dough then and there. It works i always come here for there sugar cookies
Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:45 pm
Name: Jackie | Comment: ooh me and my friends tried this out and it turned out really good. haha. thank you. ^-^
Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:12 am
Name: ellie and theresa | Comment: WE LOVE COOKIESSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:26 pm
Name: | Comment: I really injoyed following this recipe. i Made it myself at a young age and it has incouraged me.
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