Unleash your inner child with a sugar cookie

In case you don’t know how to make sugar cookies, here are a few recipes:

Basic cut out sugar cookies: https://showme.co.za/hermanus/lifestyle/cut-out-sugar-cookies/

Easy sugar cookies: https://www.cooks.com/recipe/58u53nd/easy-sugar-cookies.html

Soft and chewy sugar cookies: https://www.food.com/recipe/soft-and-chewy-sugar-cookies-49335

When making the perfect sugar cookie, you’ll want to avoid these mistakes:

1. Using butter that is too soft: When using butter that is too soft, you’ll find that the cookies don’t hold their shape well and tend to be greasy. So whatever you do, do not put your butter in the microwave (even if you forgot to take it out of the fridge in time)

2. Working the dough too much: Over mixed dough makes tough biscuits. The perfect sugar cookie should be soft and tender. As a guideline, mix the dough until the dry ingredients are just incorporated. Not a second longer.

3. Not chilling the dough: Chilling the dough is an essential step in the sugar cookie making process, especially if you’re making cut outs. If you skip this step the dough will be sticky and difficult to work with.

4. Rolling out the dough too thick or too thin: You need to find that perfect balance. Rolling out the dough too thin and the biscuit has a greater chance of tearing and falling apart. Roll the dough too thick and you stand a greater risk of having a cookie that is unevenly baked or not baked all the way through.

5. Over baking the cookies: Usually you bake biscuits until their golden brown; this isn’t true for the sugar cookie. Once the edges develop a golden tone you’ve gone too far. Over done cookies will still taste good, but won’t have that soft chewiness essential to a sugar cookie.

Now that you have the perfect sugar cookie, enjoy it any way you like. Here are some ideas:

– Freshly baked and dipped in a hot cup of tea

– Iced with buttercream or a simple glaze

– Dipped in chocolate

– Sandwiched with ice cream in the middle

– Baked in the bottom of a cupcake

– Crushed as the base of a cheesecake or tart

– Blended with ice cream and milk for a delicious milkshake

– Blended with ice cream and then frozen to make your own sugar cookie ice cream

– Crushed, melted with white chocolate and mixed with popcorn

– Sandwiched with melted marshmallow and peanut butter

Enjoy!

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