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The Number One Ingredient To Never Use When Baking Sugar Cookies
By ADRIANNA MACPHERSON
Sugar cookies are so appealing during the holiday season since they are charmingly decorative and whimsical. No matter how you choose to decorate your sugar cookies, you’ll need the cookies themselves to provide a good base — and in order to achieve the perfect base, there's one ingredient you must avoid.
As for most cookies, you'll need butter, sugar, flour, eggs, and typically some kind of rising agent such as baking powder or baking soda. The latter is a leavener and gives baked goods a boost so they can rise to create the perfect texture, but this is actually the part that you’ll want to skip to create your special holiday treats.
When it comes to sugar cookies, the surface needs to be flat and smooth so that your decorations will turn out exactly the way you want them. Skipping leaveners like baking soda means your sugar cookie dough shouldn't spread, and that’s important when cutting them into distinct shapes for your holiday dessert spread.