Rolled Sugar Cookies

These cookies are great for holidays for many reasons. For one, they're easy to make the dough for in little time using a food processor or stand mixer. You can also make the dough far ahead of time and freeze it for later, thawing it in the fridge overnight. It's easy to roll out and cut shapes that hold after baking, and they taste good with all manner of decorations- I used both chocolate and sanding sugar with icing (those got eaten before pictures were taken). Be careful not to overbake these, as they're done before they go brown, and need to cool on the sheet to set.

Rolled Sugar Cookies 
From chefkoch.de

500 g. Flour
250 g. Butter
250 g. Sugar
1 Packet (2 1/4 Tsp.) Baking powder
1 Egg
1 Packet vanilla sugar, or 1 TBSP homemade
Dash of lemon extract, optional

Mix dry ingredients. In a food processor or stand mixer with a paddle attachment, add the remaining ingredients and mix until homogenous. Wrap dough and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

Roll out dough between sheets of baking parchment and cut into desired shapes. Bake for about 15 minutes at 180℃.