Description
Whether you’re a sugar cookie making expert or new to the adventure, this recipe is fool proof! Bret of Bret’s Table in St. Paul, MN, takes you step-by-step in making these perfect sugar cookies. So grab your favorite cookie and let’s start baking.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup organic almond flour
- 3/4 cup organic cornstarch
- 1 cup Kalona SuperNatural Organic Unsalted Butter (cut into small, equal pieces)
- 1 cup organic granulated sugar
- 3/4 tsp Kosher salt
- 2 large organic egg yolks (room temperature)
- 1 tsp organic vanilla extract
- 1/1 tsp organic almond extract
Instructions
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine flours and cornstarch. Set aside.
- Using your mixer, cream the butter. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add the sugar and salt. Beat until smooth. Scrape down sides of bowl.
- Mix in the egg yolks one at a time until each is evenly blended. Add the extracts. Scrape the sides of the bowl, once more.
- Add flour mixture on medium to low speed until the dough starts to form.
- On a flat, smooth, cold work surface, remove the dough from the bowl.
- Using the heel of your hand, smear the dough away from you, little by little, turning it back onto itself with a scraping tool. Do this until the dough is combined.
- Once combined, divide dough into thirds and form each into a rectangle.
- Roll each piece of dough out between 2 sheets of parchment paper, to a thickness of 1/4 inch. After rolling out, leave the dough between the parchment paper and stack on a half-sheet pan. Refrigerate for about an hour or until firm.
- Preheat the oven to 375°.
- Remove a ‘slab’ of dough from the fridge and cut with your favorite cookie cutter.
- Gently gather the remaining dough back into a rectangle and reroll. Refrigerate to firm it up and cut as you did the others. It works to reroll just once, otherwise the cookies start getting tough. Get creative!
- Set each cookie about a 1/2 inch apart form another on the parchment lined baking sheet. Return pan to refrigerator or freezer to harden while you line another sheet with cookies.
- Bake for 9-12 minutes or until just barely beginning to brown. With cookies still on the parchment paper, slide onto a cooling rack and completely cool before decorating.
Notes
Sugar Cookie recipes and photos courtesy of Bret Bannon of Bret’s Table.