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Basic Sugar-Cookie Dough

Here's one of the best-kept secrets of professional bakers: It takes only one cookie dough to produce a beautiful assortment of holiday cookies. Use this dough to make Santa's Snowflakes, Orange Spritz, Chocolate-Raspberry Thumbprints, and Hawaiian Snowballs.
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Basic Sugar-Cookie Dough
Ingredients
6 INGREDIENTS
2 SERVINGS
Salt
2 tsp salt
Unsalted Butter
2 cups unsalted butter
room temperature
Pure Vanilla Extract
2 tbsp pure vanilla extract
All-purpose Flour
5 cups all-purpose flour
Sugar
2 cups sugar
Eggs
2 large eggs
Directions
6 STEPS
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Health Info
Allowed on these diets
LACTOSE FREE
GLUTEN FREE
VEGETARIAN
Contains these allergens
MILK
EGGS
WHEAT
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