Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies Recipe

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups unsalted butter

  3 sticks, softened
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

  or coconut or almond extract
• 5 cups all-purpose flour

  plus more for rolling (see notes)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Sugar cookie icing

  dyed pink, red, or whatever color you want
• Valentine’s Day sprinkles

Instructions

• 1 Cream together butter and sugar in the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle
  attachment or using a hand mixer. Mix in eggs and extract.
• 2 In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the
  flour mixture to the butter in batches, stirring until well combined.
• 3 Divide dough into four equal pieces, shape into discs, and wrap each in plastic
  wrap. Chill for at least 2 hours in the fridge, or 20 minutes in the freezer.
• 4 Preheat oven to 400°F.
• 5 Remove one disc from the fridge and roll the dough out on a floured surface
  until the dough is 1/8″-1/4″ thick.
• 6 Cut with cookie cutters (we recommend hearts of course!) and transfer to an
  ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 6-8 minutes, watching closely. Cookies are done
  when bottoms are just barely golden. Remove cookies immediately from the baking
  sheet, and let cool completely on cooling rack before icing. Repeat with
  remaining dough, ensuring that the pans are cool to the touch before filling
  them with more cookie dough.
• 7 Decorate with sugar cookie icing (keep it as white icing or add a few drops of
  food coloring to dye it) and sprinkles, as desired.

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