Glazed Sugar Cookies Recipe

Ingredients for Glazed Sugar Cookies

• Soft Unsalted Butter - ¾ cup / 170 grams
• Sugar - 1 cup / 200 grams
• Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp
• Eggs - 2
• All Purpose Flour / Maida - 3 cups / 360 grams
• Baking Powder - ½ tsp
• Salt - ¼ tsp
• Jam - as needed (Use any of your favourite jam)
• Icing Sugar / Confectioners Sugar - 3 to 4 tbsp
• Royal Icing - 1 batch (RECIPE HERE)

(My 1 cup measures 240 ml)

How to make Glazed Sugar Cookies

1. Take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and whip till creamy. Now add in one egg at a time and whip till fluffy.
2. Add in flour, baking powder and salt and whip again till it is mixed into a soft dough.
3. Now wrap this in plastic and chill this for couple of hours.
4. Once the dough is chilled. Cut it in half.
5. Now preheat oven to 180 degree C.
6. Roll the dough into ¼ inch thickness and use a cookie cutter to cut out shapes. 
7. Arrange it in a parchment lined baking tray.
8. Bake for 12 to 15 mins. If your cookies are thicker it may take upto 15 mins.
9. Now remove it from oven and cool it down completely.
10. Now decorate it as you wish and let it set for an hour or so and store this in a air tight container.