Hello sweet friends, today im sharing my soft sugar cookie recipe with you. This recipe is slightly similar to my traditional sugar cookie dough, except its a tiny bit softer and this dough has added mix-ins. I hope you enjoy it.

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Ingredients

2 sticks of butter (room temp)

1 large egg at room temp

1 TBSP vanilla

1 1/4 Cups sugar

3 1/4 Cups all purpose flour

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

1. add butter, egg, and vanilla to a mixing bowl, mix for 4 minutes, then add in the sugar and continue to mix for 3-4 minutes until these ingredients incorporate.
2. stop the mixer and scrape the sides of the bowl, add in the all purpose flour, salt, and baking powder. And mix until all the ingredients incorporate, approximately 3-4 minutes. NOTE: do not stop until your dough comes together, your dough will go through stages; sandy, lumpy, and slowly it will come together smoothly and it will no longer stick to the sides of the bowl, when it no longer sticks to the sides, that’s when it is ready to be rolled.
3. at this point you can add in any mix-ins if you would like, if you do , add them into the mixer and mix until they incorporate
4. lightly dust a flat surface (silicone mat, or parchment paper) with powdered sugar or flour, place your dough on the surface and roll evenly, proceed to cut out your shapes
5. pre-heat your oven to 325 F and bake your cookies at least 1 1/2 inches apart for 11-14 minutes (check your cookies at 11 minutes and if desired baker an additional 3 minutes), these cookies will be soft cookies but they will still be easy to handle.

NOTES: this cookie dough will not spread too much during baking, after preparing you the dough you may roll, cut, and bake the dough without refrigerating, since we use less baking powder, this dough does not require refrigeration to bake better, you may also refrigerate or freeze the dough for storage to use at a later time.

Mix-ins

1/2-1 Cups of rainbow jimmies or chocolate chips

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