Secret Sugar Cookies

By RoketJSquerl

Ingredients

• 3/4 pounds salted butter, softened
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• Colored sugar

Details

Adapted from cookistry.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Add the yolks and vanilla, and mix well. Add the flour and combine completely.

Use a teaspoon or scoop to make balls, the round them with your hands. Place them on ungreased cookie sheets. then flatten the dough with the bottom of a glass dipped in colored sugar

Bake for 10 minutes, watching carefully towards the end of cooking, since they can burn easily. The cookies should be just barely golden around the edges.

Let the cookies rest for a minute or two on the cookie sheet (they're very fragile while warm) before removing them to a rack to cool.

The cookbook says that the flavor of these cookies improves over time. Can't say that I could vouch for that - they didn't last that long.