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Assemble your ingredients.
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Combine the sugar and softened butter.
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Thoroughly, thoroughly, thoroughly cream together your butter and sugar. The better it's mixed the better the end result will be.
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Mix in the vanilla.
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Mix in the eggs.
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Your end result should be light, fluffy, and creamy.
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Assemble your dry ingredients and sift in to the liquid ingredients one cup at a time. Mixing together thoroughly in between each cup added.
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The dough should resemble this.
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Chill the dough for at least an hour.
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Preheat the oven to 400°f/200°c.
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Flour the working area and start rolling out the chilled cookie dough.
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Roll the dough out to 1/4" inch thick and cut out shapes using your desired cookie cutter.
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Decorate the cookies using desired sugars and sprinkles. Baked for 8-10 minutes. The cookies should have a light golden color.
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Simple and beautiful.
Ingredients
1½ | Cups Butter, softened (cannot stress that enough!!!) |
2 | Cups White sugar |
4 | Eggs |
1 | Teaspoon Vanilla |
5 | Cups Flour |
2 | Teaspoons Baking powder |
1 | Teaspoon Salt |
Cookie sheets | |
Rolling pin | |
Assorted cookie cutters | |
Assorted sprinkles for decorating | |
Parchment paper |