What you need:
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 sticks salted butter, cold, cut into chunks
- 1 egg
- 3/4 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp. almond extract
Directions:
- Cream together sugar and butter.
- Add the egg and extracts and mix together.
- Stir together flour and baking powder in a separate bowl and then add slowly into butter mixture until just combined. Scrape the sides and bottom every so often. It will look crumbly and that is A-Okay!
- Grab the dough from the bowl and knead it together gently to form a ball.
- Roll the ball of dough on a lightly floured surface around 1/4 of an inch thick.
- Use cookie cutters to cut shapes out. Put the cookie shapes onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
- Place in the freezer for about 5 minutes. This keeps them from spreading out.
- Bake in a preheated 350* oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Let rest on sheet for about 2 minutes and remove to a wire rack to finish cooling.
- Reroll the dough out and cut more shapes, freeze, and bake until you have used up your dough.
- Decorate cooled cookies as desired!
Note: You can freeze any "leftover" dough if you want. Wrap it in plastic cling wrap and then place in a plastic baggie (squeezing out any extra air). It keeps for 3 to 6 months!
Recipe from Bake at 350