simple sugar cookies – smitten kitchen

simple sugar cookies – smitten kitchen

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Last month after 13 years of stubbornness I shared a recipe for roast turkey and a funny thing happened: Many of you made and loved the turkey and your turkeys looked so beautiful (yes turkeys! Beautiful!) that warmth radiated from them and to me and inspired me to shake loose another recipe that I’ve been promising you for almost as long: Sugar Cookies. Or Butter Cookies. Or Roll-Out Cookies. Or Holiday Cookies.

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Easy Sugar Cookies | Smitten Kitchen with Deb Perelman

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It’s just that they can be boring! And a lot of work. So many of the intricate stunning ones that I admire with awe end up being underwhelming. And personally I just can’t stand the thought of someone who has spent hours devouring my masterpiece in one bite dropping crumbs on the floor and then immediately asking for another one no matter how rude it is to pick up my kids in such a public way. I knew I would never be able to share a sugar cookie recipe until I found a way to make them as simple as I wanted the kind of thing you can make now and eat to pieces before too long. Which brings us to today.

There are five really nice things about this recipe (and if you're familiar with this post a few of them were copied verbatim):