Sweetheart Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:-

• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 cup sugar
• 125g butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 1/2 cups flour 
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda

Preparation Instructions :-

• Preheat oven to 180*C (350*F).
• Beat butter until soft (if you're using softened butter, you can skip this step - I'm just too impatient)
• Add in sour cream, sugar, eggs and vanilla and beat for 2 - 3 minutes. 
• Add dry ingredients and mix until well combined. 
• Cover dough and chill in fridge for 30 minutes or until firm.
• Turn out dough onto a floured board, roll out to about 1/2 centimetre/1/4 inch thick. (You may need to add a little more flour to make the dough more workable - but don't add too much or you won't have soft cookies!)
• Use cookie cutters to make shapes and transfer to a lined cookie sheet.
• Bake for 10 minutes until light golden brown - no longer!
• When you take the cookies out of the oven they may look underdone - but don't worry, you'll thank me later for your soft melt in your mouth cookies!

Adaptions :-

Crunchy cookies: Bake for 5 or so minutes longer, your cookies will be brown on the outside with a lighter brown centre and will harden upon cooling.

Jam Centred Cookies: Cut out shapes in the middle of your cookies and fill with jam, bake for 8 minutes at 180*C before turning the oven down to 120*C for a further 5-10 minutes, or until jam starts to set. 

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