Sugar Cookies (for Madison's Puppy Party)

Madison is having her 3rd birthday party on Saturday and it is puppy themed! She chose the theme and the menu (pizza, pineapple and cake). My sister thought it'd be fun to have all the kids decorate puppy cookies, so I found a dog bone shape cookie cutter and made 51 (50 after I ate one) cookies for all the kiddies!! It's going to be so cute!!!

This is a really delicious sugar cookie recipe. I normally avoid sugar cookies at all costs because it's so labor intensive to refrigerate and roll out, etc. My one tip is to constantly move the dough when you're rolling it out and use lots of flour to keep it from sticking!

Sugar Cookies

Adapted from Alton Brown

Ingredients

3 c all purpose flour

3/4 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 c unsalted butter, softened (2 sticks)

1 c sugar

1 egg, beaten

1 tbsp milk

Powdered sugar or extra flour for rolling out the dough

Directions

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside. Place butter and sugar in a large bowl of an electric stand mixer and beat until light in color. Add egg and milk and continue to beat on low speed. Gradually add flour mixture and beat until it pulls away from the edges of the bowl and just comes into a dough. Pour out onto a floured board. Gather into a disc shape and divide in half. Wrap each half in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Generously sprinkle the surface you'll roll the dough out onto with flour or powdered sugar. Remove 1 wrapped pack of dough from refrigerator at a time. It's very important that the dough stay cold! Sprinkle the rolling pin with flour or powdered sugar and roll out dough into 1/4 inch thick. While you are rolling out the dough, constantly be turning the dough in different directions or flipping it over. If the dough has warmed during this process, put it back in the fridge.

Cut rolled out dough into desired shape, place at least 1 inch apart on a greased cookie sheet or a sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 7 to 9 minutes until cookies just begin to brown on edges, rotate the cookie sheet halfway through cooking. Let sit for 2 minutes before moving to a cooling rack.

Serve as is or ice as desired. Will keep in plastic storage for 1 week.