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Basic Cookie Dough Recipe


Basic Cookie Dough Recipe
From Good Housekeeping triple-tested at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute This simple dough, which is the starting point for all our holiday cookie recipes, calls for butter (no substitutions) because butter not only gives the best flavor ... More

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Ingredients
  • 2 3/4 cup(s) all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon(s) baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
  • 1 cup(s) (2 sticks) butter (no substitutions), softened
  • 3/4 cup(s) granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract

Directions
  1. On waxed paper, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
  2. In large bowl, with mixer on medium speed, beat butter and sugar 1 minute or until creamy, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula.
  3. Add egg and vanilla; beat until well mixed.
  4. Reduce speed to low; gradually beat in flour mixture just until blended, occasionally scraping bowl.
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  6. Use this to make some really cool cookies. Recipes to follow.
  7. Or just roll it out and cut cookies bake at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes
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  9. Cookie requiring this basic cookie recipe:
  10. Fig-Filled Moons, Chocolate Pinwheels, Chewy Fruit Bars, Butter Cookie Cutouts, Hazelnut-Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, Cranberry-Orange Spice Cookies, Apple Pie Spice Rugelach, Gingerbread Cutouts, Mexican Wedding Cookies, Chocolate-Dipped Peppermint Sticks, Chocolate Raspberry Thumbprints, Stained Glass Ornaments.

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Comments


Looooove this basic recipe!!!!!!!!!
you can "go to town" with a variety of biscuits using this recipe
thanks
enjoy your day
mumtaz


I agree with Mumtaz.Thanks for a wonderful post.


Thank you all for your help on this one..


Thank you all for your help on this one..


We can all use a basic cookie dough. It's surprising the variety of cookies we can create with this recipe. Thank you for sharing and HIGH 5!


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