This holiday season, take all your best moments, put them in a jar, and savor each as a cookie. That’s not as difficult as it sounds. Just try this recipe to make cookies with perfect shape, and softness.

Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 ¼ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 200 grams unsalted butter
  • ¾ cups sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract (optional)
  • ½ cup chocolate chips
  • ¼ cup nuts

 

Ingredients for icing

  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 egg whites
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Set them aside, and beat the butter and sugar into another bowl. Make sure your butter is at room temperature to avoid air bubbles. After you reach a fluffy texture, add your dry ingredients gradually mixing it continuously. Knead the dough very lightly when the dough is crumble-like texture wrap the dough in a plastic and chill for two hours or also overnight.

Before rolling out the dough, spread some flour on the counter so that it does not stick while rolling the cookie. Start to roll from the center and carefully spread up to ¼ inch thick making it as even as possible. Cut cookies into shapes using cookie cutter or free-hand placing them over baking sheet half inch apart. Bake them for 6-8 minutes.

Cool them before the decoration. Mix all ingredients for icing in a bowl. Whisk ingredients until it becomes glossy and has stiff peaks. You can ask your child to help in the decoration of the cookies. You can also use different colored icing to decorate cookies.