Chewy Sugar Cookie with a Soft Middle

Set out Sugar, Butter softened, and whole egg before you start Chewy Sugar Cookie with a Soft Middle. The batch is written for 13 Cookies.

Count on 23 minutes of prep, 8 minutes of cooking, 2 hours of resting, about 2 hours from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

• 1 ⅓ cups Sugar
• ½ cup Butter softened
• 1 whole egg
• 1 tablespoon whole milk
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon kosher salt

How the cooking goes

1. Cream butter and sugar in the bowl of a electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat well.
2. Put milk and vanilla and beat well.
3. Beat together flour, baking powder and salt. Reduce mixer to low and add dry ingredients in three additions, waiting until almost all the flour has been incorporated before adding the next.
4. Scoop with a large cookie scoop or roll in to balls about ¼ cup size. Chill dough before baking.
5. Heat the oven to 325°F convection.
6. Set on cookie sheet lined with baking paper and bake in preheated oven 10-12 minutes until the edges are a nice deep gold, the centers have puffed and the surface looks matte not shiny.

After it comes off the heat

Cool the sheet on a rack before the pieces are stacked. A covered tin keeps them for a few days.

If you want another plate from Cookies, open Pumpkin Pie Cookies Baked Until the Edges Set and Amaretti Cookies with a Soft Middle.