Cut Out Sugar Cookie Recipe

The easiest and quickest Cut Out Sugar Cookie recipe! It’s made from a simple dough using basic ingredients and there’s no need to wait hours for dough to chill. So you can have a batch of sugar cookies decorated and ready in about an hour with this streamlined method.

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cups (354g) all-purpose flour (scoop and level to measure)
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup (226g) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp almond extract (optional)
• Icing (see below)