Sugar Cookies

Name: Sugar Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Soft Salted Butter; Granulated Sugar; Egg; Vanilla Extract; Plain Flour; Baking Powder; Granulated Sugar

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30 mins cook

Sweet, buttery biscuits coated in a crunchy sugar coating. These cookies might look plain but they taste anything but.

Sophie Godwin

Heat your oven to 160°C Fan. Line two baking trays with baking paper.

Beat the butter and granulated sugar together in a large bowl with an electric whisk for 2-3 mins until light and fluffy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, crack in the egg, add the vanilla extract and whisk again to combine.

Measure in the flour and baking powder along with a pinch of salt. Whisk until a smooth cookie dough.

For the sugar coating, put the remaining granulated sugar into a shallow bowl. Roll the cookie dough into equal balls weighing about 50g each. Dip each cookie in the sugar, rolling to lightly coat. Once coated in the sugar, place onto the lined baking trays and use the bottom of a glass to flatten into a cookie puck. Repeat until all the cookies are coated in sugar, leaving a decent amount of space between each one on the tray to allow for spreading.

Bake for 10-12 mins until very lightly golden. Leave to cool on the tray for 5 mins then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Yum.

Serves

FOR THE COOKIE DOUGH:

Soft Salted Butter

Granulated Sugar

Egg

Vanilla Extract

Plain Flour

Baking Powder

FOR THE SUGAR COATING:

Granulated Sugar

Sophie Godwin

Sophie Godwin is a cookbook author, food writer and chef. When she’s not catering weddings, she is rustling up accessible cookable bangers. She's helped us write multiple Mob cookbooks over the years and her recipes never disappoint. Her debut cookbook Sundays is out now.

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Serves

FOR THE COOKIE DOUGH:

Soft Salted Butter

Granulated Sugar

Egg

Vanilla Extract

Plain Flour

Baking Powder

FOR THE SUGAR COATING:

Granulated Sugar

Sophie Godwin

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