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Soft Cut-Out Sugar Cookies (Zenith's DELICIOUS) Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
¾ c. butter softened to room temperature
¾ c. sugar
1 large egg at room temperature
2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
¼ tsp almond extract
2 ¼ c. flour
½ tsp.baking powder
¼ tsp. salt

Substitute lemon extract in place of almond extract for Ryan

Icing for Sugar cookies
1 ½ c.confectioners' sugar (powdered sugar)
½ tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 tsp light corn syrup
2- 2½ tbsp room temperature water
Assorted sprinkles if desired
Directions:
Directions:
Beat the butter until creamy and smooth. Add sugar and beat on high until light and fluffy. Add egg, vanilla and extracts. Continue to beat on high for 2 more minutes. Slowly add the flour, baking powder and salt and mix until all ingredients are combined. If the dough is too soft, add a tbsp of flour. Divide and make 2 balls. Roll out each ball about a ¼ " and place on parchment paper. Stack the 2 layers on a baking sheet and refrigerate 1-2 hours. Chilling is mandatory. Remove chilled dough, and cut out shapes. Transfer the cut dough to baking sheets. Re-roll dough as needed to continue cutting out shapes..
Preheat oven to 350º and bake 9-12 min. until lightly colored on top and around the edges. Rotate the cookie sheet in the oven halfway through bake time. Allow to cool for 5 min. on the cookie sheet before transferring the cookies to a cooling rack. Cool completely before icing. If you aren't icing the cookies you could add sprinkles before baking.

Whisk the confectioner's sugar, vanilla, corn syrup and 2 tbsp. water in a medium bowl. It should be quite thick. If too thick, add ½ tbsp.more water. If too thin, add 2 more tbsp. of sugar. Drizzle the icing to test the consistency. If desired,
add food coloring into different bowls of icing for multiple colors. Decorate using a knife or squeeze bottles.

These cookies can be frozen up to 3 months. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator. Corn syrup can be optional as it makes the frosting shiny.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
Varies upon cut shapes

 

 

 

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