Cooking with Asia

Prep time: 20 min. Cook Time : 8 min. Ready: 3 hours

Yield : 30 cookies

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter, softened

1 cup white sugar

2 eggs

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

Directions

1. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth.

2. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

3. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt.

4. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight).

5. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

6. Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick.

7. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter.

8. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.

9. Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely.

I don’t recall ever trying sugar cookies before so I was pretty excited to try these because my mom used to make these before but I don’t remember ever trying one. I liked making these because it was fun to decorate them and I did pretty good. I was pretty good at decorating them and it was fun using piping bags. The cookies came out tasting great and they were baked really nicely with a golden brown look. What didn’t go well though was that we kept rolling out the dough and we had to roll it over three times to get as much flower shapes as we could. I don’t think it affected the taste much because they still tasted good. Another thing we did wrong was that we didn’t put enough flour onto the counter so the flour really stuck to the counter which deformed the shapes when we tried to get them off. Without learning in class that the dough needs to be even throughout I wouldn’t have known to do that. I've never made cookies like these before by myself so this was a new thing to me. If I were to make these at home I would need to make sure that I flour the counter really well so that the lowers have a more appealing look to them.