No Wait Sugar cookies

Ingredients

• Butter: 1 cup
• White sugar: 1 cup
• Vanilla extract: 1 tsp
• Almond extract (optional): 1/2 tsp
• egg: 1 large
• baking powder: 2 tsp
• salt: 1/2 tsp
• Flour: 3cups

Instructions

1. Step 1: Preheat oven to 350°
2. Step 2: In the bowl of your mixer cream butter and sugar until smooth (about 3 mins)
3. Step 3: Beat in egg and extract(s) - almond is purely optional I dont taste a difference with it
4. Step 4: in a seperate bowl combine with a whisk baking powder salt and flour
5. Step 5: Add about a 1/2 a cup at a time to the wet ingredients.
6. Step 6: *IF the dough looks crumbly keep mixing for 30-60 seconds longer. The dough should be pulling away from the sides of the bowl of the mixer
7. Step 7: If the dough is too stiff pull out of mixer and turn out on a lightly floured countertop may need to wet hands to finish kneading
8. Step 8: Divide into workable batches (2-3 chunks)
9. Step 9: Roll out onto a floured surface - keep the dough about 1/4 inch thick
10. Step 10: Bake at 35° for 6-8 minutes
11. Step 11: Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm and then transfer to cooling rack