Place Card Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 cups (750 mL) Robin Hood® Original All Purpose Flour
- 1 tsp (5 mL) baking powder
- 1/2 tsp (2 mL) salt
- 1 cup (250 mL) butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups (300 mL) sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla
- 1/2 tsp (2 mL) almond extract
- decorations
Directions
Step 1:
Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).
Step 2:
Combine flour, baking powder and salt in large bowl. Stir well to blend.
Step 3:
Cream butter and sugar together in separate large bowl of electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, vanilla and almond extract.
Step 4:
Stir flour mixture into creamed mixture. Mix well. Form dough into two balls. Wrap each in plastic wrap and chill about 3 hours for easy handling.
Step 5:
Roll dough out, one ball at a time, on a floured surface to 1/4" (6 mm) thickness. Cut into desired shapes. (If cookies are to be used as Christmas tree ornaments or as gift giving name tags, insert the large end of a toothpick through the cookie at one end and leave there during baking). Decorate with coloured sugar, nuts or candies before baking or leave plain and decorate with icing later.
Step 6:
Bake in preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes, or until light golden. Remove toothpick when cookies come out of the oven. Cool.
Step 7:
When cool decorate with coloured icings, if desired. Personalize cookies with a name written in icing. Thread with colourful ribbon, yarn, or cord.