Food Recipe: Sugar Cookies

Its not the holidays without Christmas cookies, and one of my favorites is sugar cookies. Unfortunately, I am not a great baker, especially with cookies (I always tend to overbake them!). However, I still decided to try my hand at All Recipe's version of Easy Sugar Cookies.

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 3/4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup softened butter
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder.
• In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in dry ingredients. Roll into rounded teaspoonfuls of dough and place onto ungreased cookie sheets. Or, if you're really talented, this is where you can roll the dough and cut into fun shapes (maybe next year for me...)
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes (it took my oven 12 minutes).

Just some extra notes:

• A teaspoonful is pretty small, so keep that in mind- your cookies will be small as well.
• My dough was a little dry, but the cookies came out pretty tasty.
• I made a special effort not to overbake these cookies. But in case you do, the best tip I have ever heard (and I can vouch for its success as well) is to place your cookies in a bag and add a slice of bread wrapped in a paper towel. Let the bag sit overnight. The next morning, the slice of bread will be rock hard, but your cookies will be more moist!