Small Batch Sugar Cookies (Monkey Faces)
Equipment
- Mixing Bowl & Beaters
- Oven Tray
- Baking Paper
- Rolling Pin
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Butter unsalted, room temperature
- 1/3 cup Sugar granulated
- 1 Egg Yolk large
- 1 tbsp Sour Cream full fat or greek yogurt or cream cheese
- 1/2 tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup Plain Flour
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 1/8 tsp Baking Powder
Instructions
- Cream sugar and butter in a deep bowl.
- Add egg yolk and vanilla extract. Mix until everything is well-blended.
- Add sour cream and mix again. I think sour cream added some moisture to these cookies and prevented them from becoming very hard.
- Add flour, baking powder and salt.
- Mix everything. The batter will start to curdle and look odd. That’s perfectly normal… you haven’t done anything wrong.
- When the curdling happens, it’s time to use your hands to start mixing until you form a ball of cookie dough!
- Roll this dough between 2 sheets of wax paper or parchment paper.
- Use a cookie cutter to cut out 12 cookie shapes. (See below for monkey faces)
- Bake these cookies on a cookie tray lined with parchment paper at 350 degrees for 6 minutes. Then rotate your tray and bake for another 3 minutes. Your baking times may vary depending on the thickness of your cookies. Cookies are done when they are light golden brown along the edges.
- Allow the cookies to cool down completely before removing them from the parchment paper.
Notes
For monkey faces cut three holes in 6 of the cookies and bush with egg white and sprinkle with desiccated coconut. When cool sandwich together with raspberry jam
Small Batch Sugar Cookies (Monkey Faces)