Basic Sugar Cookie
 
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Classic sugar cookie recipe to enjoy plain, or decorate them to match your celebration. This basic recipe can be tweaked to make various types of decorated cookies for Eid, Ramadan and beyond.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Eid
Serves: 2 dozen
Ingredients
  • 1 Cup butter, softened at room temperature
  • ½ Cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • Orange/Lemon zest (optional)
Instructions
  1. Line a cookie sheet with silpat or parchment paper.
  2. Preheat oven to 350° F.
  3. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in vanilla.
  4. Sift the flour, and salt together. Add the zest if using.
  5. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, little by little at a time.
  6. Flour your hands and finish off kneading the dough by hand.
  7. Divide the dough into workable batches. I make two discs.
  8. Chill the discs for 15-20 minutes.
  9. Roll out the chilled disc, one at a time, closer to ¼ inch onto a lightly floured surface
  10. Cut out the cookie using your favorite cookie cutters. We used the Islamic shape cookie cutters.
  11. Chill the cutout cookies for 15 minutes.
  12. Bake about 9-12 minutes. Baking time depends on the size and thickness of your cookies.
  13. Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.
  14. Decorate.
Notes
The number of cookies will vary depending to how thick you roll out your cookies and which cutters you use(i.e. the masjid cutter is much larger than the star one).

I usually use a separate tray for the star and moon cookies and bake the larger ones in a separate tray and take out the star cookies earlier.
Recipe by WithASpin at https://withaspin.com/2015/07/10/basic-sugar-cookie/