Vanilla Bean Cut-Out Sugar Cookie Recipe
This Vanilla Bean Sugar Cookie Recipe is easy to cut out, holds its shape after baking and yields soft and chewy sugar cookies.
Servings 24 cookies
Calories 161kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter (2 sticks) cold & cut into chunks
- 1 cup granulated sugar (or vanilla sugar)
- 1 egg
- 2 vanilla beans scraped
- 1/2 tsp pure almond extract
- 3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Cream butter and sugar together. Stir in egg, vanilla beans and extract. In a small bowl stir flour and baking powder together. Slowly incorporate dry ingredients.
- Roll dough out onto the floured surface to be just over 1/4" thick. Cut cookies out using cookie cutters and place onto parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
- Freeze 5-7 minutes, then bake 10-12 minutes, or until bottoms have lightly browned but edges are still light in color. Cool 3 minutes on the baking sheet, then remove to cooling racks. Decorate as desired.
Notes
Nutritional information is for plain, unfrosted sugar cookies.
Nutrition
Calories: 161kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 27mg | Sodium: 71mg | Potassium: 55mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 246IU | Calcium: 20mg | Iron: 1mg
