Cut Out Sugar Cookies. As far back as I can remember, every December we'd get together with our cousins and make Christmas cookies, and I have carried on the tradition with my five kids! However, since starting this tradition with my own. Cut Out Sugar Cookies are popular all year round.

This recipe is a cross between shortbread and sugar cookies. These are my best cut-out soft sugar cookies! With crisp edges, thick centers, and room for lots of decorating icing, I know you'll love them too. You can cook Cut Out Sugar Cookies using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Cut Out Sugar Cookies

1. It's 1 1/2 cup of Butter.
2. You need 1 1/2 cup of Sugar.
3. Prepare 5 of Eggs.
4. Prepare 2 tsp of Vanilla.
5. It's 6 cup of All-Purpose Flour.
6. Prepare 3 tsp of Baking Powder.
7. You need 1 tsp of Salt.

These are my favorite sugar cookies with icing. I shared the recipe on Sally's Baking Addiction several years ago and even published them in my. Super soft cut-out sugar cookies decorated with an easy icing. These Christmas Cut-Out Sugar Cookies are so fun to decorate and perfect for the holidays!

Cut Out Sugar Cookies step by step

1. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar well.
2. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, and salt.
4. Gradually blend the dry mixture (second bowl) into the wet ingredients (first bowl).
5. Chill dough for at least three hours or overnight.
6. Roll dough out on a heavily floured canvas with a rolling pin until 1/8 - 1/4 thickness.
7. Cut out with cookie cutters.
8. Bake at 350°F until lightly golden.

My goal this month has been to bring you cookie recipes that I love to make around Christmas time. Bake your cut-out sugar cookies following recipe instructions, but it's always a good idea to keep an eye on the cookies in case your oven runs hotter or cooler. After you've cut out, baked, and completely cooled the cookies, the next step — and the most fun part. While many sugar cookie recipes are a little bland, and frustratingly inconsistent in their texture (too sticky to roll out one minute, tough the next) we feel that this one gets it just right. This is a firm dough that can be rolled and cut out more easily than Play-Doh, and yet it yields a meltingly delicious.