Kid Proof Sugar Cookies

Last year Leighton and I made christmas cookies together for the first time and i told myself that i wanted to make it a tradition to keep every Christmas. So Saturday we made sugar cookies.

 This girl just keeps becoming more of a handful everyday and doing things that are creative also stress me out because they are messy. So when i found this amazing recipe that seriously the closest thing to mess free as it gets. I call it the kid proof sugar cookie. 

If you read up on the recipe from its original blog, then you'll read all these amazing things about it. 

No chilling, Mixes in minutes, No floury craziness all over the counters, 

Rolls out easy and Bakes quickly.

 What you'll need. 

- 1 cup softened butter

-1 cup granulated sugar

- 1 large egg

-1 teaspoon vanilla extract

-1 teaspoon almond extract

- 2 teaspoons baking powder

-3 cups of flour

Directions.

-pre heat oven to 350

-Cream butter and sugar in large bowl.

I do this in my kitchen aid on a level 4 for about 3 minutes.

- once creamed, leave the mixer on and add egg, vanilla and almond extracts.

allow ingredients to mix well.

- in a separate bowl sift flower and baking powder together. 

- add flower mixture to wet ingredients slowly. 

I do this while my kitchen aid is running at a 4 as well. Near the end i turn it to a two.

Allow the dough to mix into one large ball. (If your dough is very dry kneed it with wet hands until combined.)

lightly grease and flour cookie sheet.

There is no need to chill the dough, take out workable portions and roll or flatten with hands on a dry/ clean surface. My counter tops worked perfectly. We used large cookie cutters and made our dough just over 1/4 in. thick.

Bake in oven for 8-10 minutes.

Cool on sheet for 1-2 minutes and then transfer to cooling rack.

****We live at 6,000 ft. I put our oven at 360 and baked for 11-12 minutes.

I will never use another sugar cookie recipe again. These are so simple, delicious, the clean up was perfect. We made 3 batches, each batch made about 16-18 large cookies. 

Now we have another gift for all of our neighbors and Leighton will have cookies to eat all week long.