Sugar Cookie

Ingredients:
3 C. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 C granulated sugar
1 egg, at room temperature
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Sift the flour and baking powder together in a bowl. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg and vanilla and beat for about a minute or so. Add the flour and beat until the dough begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl. Roll the dough with a rolling pin until it is about 1/8-inch thick. Cut out cookies. When they bake, these cookies will not really spread, so you can place them pretty close to each other on a baking sheet. Bake for eight minutes or until the cookies begin to take on a golden color. Don’t let them get too brown before removing from the oven. Cool completely. I preferred the parchment paper over the silpat because they were easier to remove from the cookie sheets so they could cool faster.

Yield 146 tiny cookies.