Cooking with Michy

Prep time: 20 min. Cook Time : 8 min. Ready: 3 hours

Yield : 30 cookies

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter, softened

1 cup white sugar

2 eggs

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

Directions

1. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth.

2. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

3. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt.

4. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).

5. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

6. Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick.

7. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter.

8. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.

9. Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.

Review: Sugar cookies more like Christmas cookies if you ask me. These cookies looked and tasted great. Our speed was our greatest aspect allowing us to get done fast and have the opportunity to learn how to make icing for the cookies. What didn’t go well or us was when we were making the icing, we couldn’t get the color of the icing to the way we wanted it and although it didn’t extremely effect the finished product it was something that we would have liked to improve on. I extremely liked how we got the opportunity learn how to make icing, this will allow us to be able to decorate our sweets we make and eventually the cakes we make. One thing I would like to change is to use a different kind of food coloring so that our icing could have a more crisp and vibrant color instead of a dull plain color. I really like these cookies and how we were able to add our own decorations and looks to make these cookies our own.