Best Christmas Sugar Cookies

• Vegetarian

• Refrigerated

  • 1 Egg, large

• Condiments

  • 2 tbsp Corn syrup, light

• Baking & Spices

  • 3 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
  • 2 cups Powdered sugar
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract or almond extract

• Dairy

  • 2 sticks Butter

• Liquids

  • 2 tbsp Water

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Description

Ingredients

• 2 sticks butter, softened
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 tbs light corn syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or almond extract
• 1 large egg
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons water
• 3½ cups all purpose flour

Directions

• Cream the butter, sugar and corn syrup together in the bowl of a stand mixer.
• Beat in the vanilla extract and salt.
• In a small bowl lightly beat the egg and water together then add to the mixer bowl.
• Add the flour to the mixer bowl and beat on low until combined.
• Scrap the bowl and beat on medium until the cookie dough is smooth, about 5 minutes.
• Remove the dough from the bowl and divide in half.
• Form each half of dough into a ball, place the ball into a plastic bag and flatten into a disk.
• Place both disks of cookie dough onto a cookie sheet and chill for at least and hour.
• Preheat the oven to 350 F. degrees.
• Roll the chilled dough out to ⅛-1/4 an inch thickness. Cut cookies out with your favorite cookie cutters.
• Gently place each cookie onto a cookie sheet that has been lined with parchment paper.
• Bake for 8-12 minutes or until the edges are slightly golden.
• Decorate as desired.
• Makes about 36-48 cookies.