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Seriously Soft Sugar Cookies

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Prep Time 20 minutes
Chill Time 1 hour

Ingredients
  

  • 5 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup sour cream

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375.
    In a large bowl, add dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda) and whisk to combine. Set aside.
  • Cream together butter, sugar, vanilla, and eggs. Add sour cream.
  • Gradually add flour mixture to creamed butter mixture, mixing just until combined.
  • Cover and chill dough for 1 hour.
  • Divide dough in half. On a lightly floured surface, roll out one half of the dough to 1/4 inch thick. Cut out cookies, setting scraps aside.
    Repeat rolling and cutting with second half of dough, setting scraps aside. 
    Gather all scraps together and, working dough as little as possible, re-roll scrap dough and cut out cookies.
  • Place cookie cut-outs on lightly greased cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes, until cookies are set and barely starting to brown on the bottom.
    Cool 5 minutes on cookie sheet before transferring cookies to cooling rack to cool completely.