3 Ingredient Sugar Cookies

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3 Ingredient Sugar Cookies

These 3 Ingredient Sugar Cookies can be made so quickly. They have a bit of crunch on the outside and soft on the inside. The recipe can be made into cutout sugar cookies, decorated or left as a simple round cookie.

Prep Time5

Cook Time15

Total Time20

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: 3 Ingredient Sugar Cookies

Servings: cookies

Author: Jen Lunsford

Ingredients

1 cup Butter softened
2/3 cup Sugar
2 cup Flour
1 tsp Almond Extract optional or Vanilla Extract
1/4 cup Sugar optional
2 tbsp Sprinkles optional

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325.
Line baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat and set aside.
Cream together butter and sugar in a medium bowl until fluffy and combined.
Add flour (and almond or vanilla, if using) and mix well.
Use your hands to bring dough together into a ball.
Shape into 1 1/2" balls and place on prepared sheet.
If you are using optional sugar, dip each ball in sugar and return to baking sheet.
Press each ball gently with the bottom of measuring cup to slightly flatten.
If you are using optional sprinkles, evenly distribute over cookies.
Bake for 15 minutes until golden on the bottom.
Allow to cool.

Notes

Use softened butter but, not too softened and greasy.
Do not OVER-MIX the sugar cookie dough. Mix just until you see no more white flour. Over mixing will cause a tough cookie that will not taste good.
If you have almond or vanilla extract on hand, add a teaspoon of one or the other to this sugar cookie, it will add the extra flavor.
If making cutout cookie dough, place the dough between two pieces of parchment instead of flouring the work surface or rolling pin. The additional flour will dry the cookie out.
Do not over bake. Pull the cookies from the oven when you first start to see slight browning on the bottoms. Remember, the cookie continues to bake on the cookie sheet after being removed from the oven.

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