Small Batch of Sugar Cookies (Cut Out)
Learn to make easy small batch of sugar cookies recipe with simple ingredients, sour cream or cream cheese. No chilling necessary. No spreading during baking. These cut out cookies hold their shape perfectly and taste great. Great for cookie decorating, especially during Christmas holiday season.
Servings: 8 Cookies
Calories: 150kcal
Ingredients
- ¼ cup Butter Unsalted, Room temperature
- ⅓ cup Granulated sugar
- 1 Egg yolk From large egg
- 1 tablespoon Full fat sour cream OR greek yogurt OR cream cheese
- ½ tablespoon Vanilla extract
- 1 cup All-purpose flour
- ⅛ teaspoon Salt
- ⅛ teaspoon Baking powder
Instructions
- Cream sugar and butter in a deep bowl.
- Add sour cream and mix again. I think sour cream added some moisture to these cookies and prevented them from becoming very hard.
- Add flour, baking powder and salt.
- Mix everything. The dough will look odd and crumbly. That’s perfectly normal. You haven’t done anything wrong.
- Now it’s time to use your hands and knead this mixture into a ball of dough.
- Roll this dough between 2 sheets of parchment paper.
- Use a cookie cutter to cut out shapes.
- Bake these cookies on a cookie tray, lined with parchment paper at 350 degrees F for 6 minutes. Then rotate your tray and bake for another 3 minutes. Your baking times may vary depending on the thickness of your cookies. Cookies are done when they are light golden brown along the edges and slightly soft in the center.
- Allow the cookies to cool down completely in the tray before removing them from the parchment paper. Enjoy!
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Notes
- The number of cookies you get from this recipe will depend on the size of your cutter (big or small) and how thick or thin you roll it. You can easily get 1 dozen small cookies that have a diameter of 2 inches. If you use a large cutter with a diameter of 3 inches, you can get 6-8 cookies.
- Line your pans with parchment paper to ensure the cookies don't stick to the pan.
- Don't over bake because that will dry out the cookies and make them as hard as a rock.
- Don't ice or decorate your cookies until they have cooled fully to room temperature.
- You are only using an egg yolk. NOT the whole egg!
- For orange favor, replace vanilla extract with ½ tablespoon orange extract and also add ½ tablespoon orange zest. You can add more or less zest depending on your preference.
- For almond flavor, add ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract and ½ teaspoon almond extract.
- To make spiced flavor, add ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder and ¼ teaspoon nutmeg powder.
- Read additional tips and variations above.
- Leftovers can be stored in a cookie jar at room temperature for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 150kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 35mg | Sodium: 45mg | Potassium: 32mg | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 205IU | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 0.8mg