Perfectly shaped vanilla sugar cookies, decorated with colorful sprinkles. These are easy to make and they look super festive for Christmas and other holidays without much effort.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword christmas sugar cookies, cookies with sprinkles, vanilla sugar cookies
In a medium bowl, combine together flour and salt and mix.
In a separate bowl, using electric mixer, beat softened butter and granulated sugar until light in color and fluffy. Add an egg and vanilla β continue beating for a couple minutes. Turn off the electric mixer, add flour-salt mixture and then continue beating on low speed until well-combined but without over mixing.
Roll dough into 1-inch balls. Roll these cookie balls in sprinkles. Arrange on parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing 2 inches apart. Freeze until firm, for about 30 minutes.
Bake at 350 degrees F in the preheated oven for 14 minutes. Do not over-bake. Remove from the oven, and transfer to wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
Recipe is adapted from Martha StewartImportant note about properly measuring flour using measuring cups: The proper way to measure flour using measuring cups is to aerate it first. This is done either by sifting flour, or aerating it by fluffing it up and whisking it well, then spooning it into the measuring cup, then carefully removing any excess flour with a knife. If you just stick that measuring cup in the bag of flour and scoop some out, you will get a lot more flour than what the recipe calls for. Do aerate the flour, or you will end up with dry dough!