These cookies look best (and cutest) when rolled in coarse-grained colored sugar, which you can find these days in most supermarkets or hobby stores.
By Jennifer Abbott
They turn out lightly crisped at the edges, but still tender and crumbly in the center, and they have an extra crackly-crunchy factor due to the colored-sugar crust.
Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 4 dozen cookies 1x
Description
These cookies look best (and cutest) when rolled in coarse-grained colored sugar, which you can find these days in most supermarkets or hobby stores.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1/2 granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup coarse white or colored sugar, or a combination
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, beat the butter, confectioners’ sugar, and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, vanilla, baking powder, and salt, mixing well. Beat in the flour at low speed until well combined.
- Roll pieces of the dough into 1-inch balls. Roll to coat well in the coarse sugar, then place 2 inches apart on baking sheet. Use the bottom of a drinking glass dipped in regular sugar to flatten each cookie into a 2-inch round (keep dipping the glass into sugar before every cookie, or they’ll stick). Bake for about 10 minutes, or until lightly golden.
- Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Category: Baking
