Tips to Make Perfect Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookies became very popular lately with many various types and flavors. It has so many variation you can try to make it in different way. Each way will have their own taste and texture. Sugar cookie recipe could be easy and sometimes difficult. It's not just the recipe to have the perfect cookie, but it has some tips to make it perfect. Here some tips will help you making the Perfect Sugar Cookies

Measuring  Ingredients

1. Measure the ingredients correctly according to the recipe you are following. Too much flour will make the cookies hard and also dry. You will not get the perfect moisture and tenderness and gets trouble with baking time and temperature.
2. The ingredients should be at room temperature before mixing it. Better use unsalted butter than the salted butter, so you can add salt whatever you want. Do not use a high protein flour, but use the low protein flour and you will have the perfect texture.
3. Use low speed to cream the ingredients. If you wanted a moist cookie (soft cookie base), cream the mixture for a while or until it paste-like. But if you wanted a light cookie, cream the mixture until fluffy (taking longer time to mix it than the moist cookie)
4. Adding the eggs and liquid at low speed so that it can mix properly.
5. When it's time to adding the flour, don't forget to low your mixer! The high speed will ruin the dough (you will have tougher cookies) because flour is very sensitive at speed when mix with the wet ingredients (butter mixture). Mix it just until it combined and do not over-mix it.
6. Chill the dough before baking it for about 1-2 hours to keep their shape and easier to work with. The chilling will allows the dough to relax.
7. Use less flour to roll the dough just until the surface covered with flour. Roll the dough for about 1/8 inch thickness. The thickness will ease you to cut the dough and will get the crisp cookie. If you want the soft cookie, roll it for about 1/4 inch thickness.
8. If you want have same thickness of your cookie, you can use two same thickness strip and place it on the left and right cookie dough. Roll the dough until it has the strip thickness
   

   

   Rolling Dough Trick

9. Bake the same size and same shape cookies on the same sheet so it can be done at the same time.
10. Bake it at 350 degree Fahrenheit for about 10-15 minutes. Take less time for soft cookies about 8-10 minutes.
11. Let the cookies cool completely before you start frosting it.

And that's it. Simple and easy, you can just try it and get the different. Don't forget to enjoy your cooking time! Call your friend and make them to taste your Perfect Sugar Cookies! 

Cute Decorated Sugar Cookies