These brown sugar cookies are easy to make and they taste out-of-this-world. The cookies include ground almonds which gives them a nice texture. Roll them thinly and make sandwich cookies or ice cream sandwiches!
PrintBrown Sugar Cookies
These rolled cookies are made with brown sugar and some ground almonds. Brown sugar cookies are great for lunch boxes and snacks or sandwich cookies.
- Prep Time: 8 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 18 minutes
- Yield: 24 1x
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Bake
Ingredients
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- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups cake flour*
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup ground almonds
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- Line baking sheets with parchment paper or leave them ungreased.
- In a mixing bowl with an electric mixer, beat the butter and brown sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Beat in egg and vanilla.
- In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. With the mixer on low speed, blend the dry mixture into the creamed mixture. Stir the ground almonds into the cookie dough.
- Chill the dough for about 20 to 30 minutes. On a floured surface, roll the dough out to about 1/8 to 1/4-inch thickness.
- Cut the dough out with cookie cutters and arrange them on the prepared baking sheets.
- Bake cookies for about 10 minutes, until cookies are done.
Notes
*To make cake flour with all-purpose, remove 3 tablespoons of flour from the 1 3/4 cups and add 3 tablespoons of cornstarch; sift and use the homemade cake flour in the recipe.
