A tried-and-true family favorite from Becky's own recipe collection. Here's everything you need to make Homemade Sugar Cookies at home.
Homemade Sugar Cookies
Makes 24 cookies · ~175 calories per serving (estimated) · 17 min prep · 9 min cook
Ingredients
- 2 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set to the side.
- In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla.
- Gradually blend the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
- Roll rounded tsp of dough into balls, and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake 8 to 10 min or until golden brown.
From Becky’s handwritten notebook
Every recipe on this site started the same way — written by hand in Becky’s spiral kitchen notebook, usually with a dinner bubbling on the stove nearby. Here’s the original page this recipe was typed up from, smudges and all:
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