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who has a good sugar cookie recipe for me?
i need a sugar cookie recipie that tastes better than your run of the mill pillsbury roll cookies, or the tasteless hard “cookies” that my family makes at christmas to decorate. thanks!
*SOFT SUGAR COOKIES
Step One:
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
Combine above ingredients well and set aside.
Step Two:
6 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
In a separate bowl, combine above ingredients well, then mix both sets of ingredients together well and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 400°F when ready to bake. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheet and bake until edges are lightly golden brown (this depends on the size and thickness of the cookies being baked). Average sized cookies will take 10-12 minutes. Watch carefully and do not over-bake
*Easy Sugar Cookies
INGREDIENTS
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.
* The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies
INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cups butter, softened
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
DIRECTIONS
In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely
*Rum Sugar Cookies
INGREDIENTS
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup butter
2 eggs
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon rum flavored extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
DIRECTIONS
Mix together flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, and butter until the mixture resembles cornmeal.
Combine eggs, sugar, rum extract, almond extract, and nutmeg until well mixed. Pour the egg mixture into the flour mixture. Stir until well blended. Divide the dough into two equal halves. Refrigerate the dough for 2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Place dough on a lightly floured surface. Roll the dough out until it is 1/8 inch thick. Using a cookie cutter cut the dough into cookies (whatever shapes you please). Place the cookies on an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake 7 to 9 minutes. When cookies have cooled frost generously with Rum Flavored Icing.
ENJOY 
Sugar Cookie Recipe