Yes, yes it is the best!

A friend of mine introduced me to this recipe for sugar cookies - she promised it was the best, it was easy enough for kids to do it. She even proved that twice over, baking cookies with our girls club, then the boys club! She's not wrong. This New Years I had my niece in from DC and decided we'd bake cookies with the kids. I mixed up the dough but the kids were in charge of rolling and cutting the cookies out - my least favorite kind of cookie! The kids did great and this dough worked wonderful for 7 year olds and 13 year olds. The kids also snatched little bits of dough which they also enjoyed. I loved the low bake time - it meant I could cycle through 3 trays of cookies pretty quickly and get to the decorating part of the day.

Best Sugar Cookies
1 Cup unsalted butter
1 Cup granulated white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1 egg
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups all purpose flour

PREHEAT oven to 350° F.
In the bowl of your mixer, CREAM butter and sugar until smooth, at least 3 minutes
BEAT in extracts and egg.
In a separate bowl, COMBINE baking powder and salt with flour and add a little at a time to the wet ingredients.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If the dough looks crumbly keep mixing for 30 seconds to 1 minute longer. The dough should be pulling away from the sides of the mixer.
If the dough still looks too dry or stiff for your mixer, turn out the dough onto a countertop surface, flour surface as needed. Wet your hands and finish off kneading the dough by hand.
DO NOT CHILL THE DOUGH. Divide into workable batches (2-3 chunks), roll out onto a floured surface, and cut. You want these cookies to be on the thicker side (closer to 1/4 inch rather than 1/8).
Bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes. Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.