 Hi, I'm Layla and welcome back to baking with Layla. Today I'm going to be making sugar cookies. Now the first thing we need to do is get a bowl that is microwave safe. You need two sticks of butter and I cut them up so it would be easier to put them in the bowl. We're going to put them in the bowl, this. After I put two sticks of butter in, we're going to go through the microwave and I'm going to put it in for 15 seconds. Oops. The butter should be softened, not melted. So if you can see, it's very easy for me to just touch them and it's soft. That's what we want. So we're going to take the bowl and put them in the big bowl. Okay, so the butter is in my bowl. So now I need one and one fourth cups of sugar. So this is my sugar. I'm going to get one cup. So this is one cup and it's complicated. Okay, okay, that kind of works. Now you can see that there's kind of like a mountain of sugar. I want to flatten that out so I know that I have that amount or else I'll be able to pour too much in. So this is perfect. So I'm going to go ahead and pour this in with the butter. Now I need my quarter cup. So I'm going to use this and I can, stripping it doesn't really work. That is my fourth and I'll pour that in with the butter too. I just need to take a look at the recipe and I'm going to cream together the butter and the sugar. So I'm going to take it over here and I'll have that in the mixer. And I'm going to mix it until it is cream together. So it looks like the butter is just kind of goo. So this is what it should look like and it should look like just a bunch of clumpy butter. So you can see that my butter and my sugar went together. So now it's a sugary butter. And now I am going to add one egg. So now this is what it should look like and we're going to go back with the mixer and we're going to mix it all together for 10 Mississippi's. Okay. Okay. Since I cut it short. A little extra. Yeah. This is what it should look like the little bit more shivery than it did before. Yeah. Looks more lemony. So next we need to add two teaspoons of vanilla. Ooh. This is my one teaspoon. I'm going to need to use two. Love vanilla. So that's my one. One. It comes out fast. That's my two. You want to make sure you're not just eyeballing it or else your cookies will be too vanilla-y and it won't taste as good because it will kind of be clumpy. Yeah. Next I need to mix this all together until it looks combined. Okay. So this is what it should look like. Like looks exactly like dough. It would be kind of squishy. If it's not kind of sticking to you and it's not, if it's not sticky, then it's not righty. One of the mistakes you can make a lot is only put in one stick of butter. Okay. So I'm going to get rid of everything that I don't need. So I'm going to clean up everything. We have our dough and I cleaned up my work space. So now you should have a tray. You should have some parchment paper. You should have sugar and a bowl. So what we're going to do with the sugar and the bowl, this is the first step we need to do. So I take my sugar and since they're sugar cookies, it won't really be sugar cookies without this part. So we're just going to pour sugar into a bowl. We can always get some more later and that is good. So we will save, I'm going to put this over here so it's not in my work space. So now I have my bowl of sugar and I have my parchment paper and I have this. So I'm going to take my parchment paper and I'm going to bring it out enough that I can bake with it. Okay. You can either use cooking spray or butter or whatever you want to use, but I'm using parchment paper because I just think it's quicker. So now that I have this, I'm going to take my batter and I need an ice cream scoop. So if you have an ice cream scoop at home, you need to use that. And I will be right back once I get my ice cream scoop. So I'm back with my ice cream scooper and all I'm going to do is take one scoop of my dough and I'm going to kind of pat it down. Then I'm going to take that amount out, make sure you wash your hands before you do this and I'm going to roll it into a ball like this. Then I'm going to come over here and roll it all in sugar. Now I'm going to come over here and I'm going to press it down so it's still pretty thick. So it doesn't matter what size pan you have. If it's like this big of a pan, then yeah, you're going to do more than I'm doing. But if it's this big of a pan, you're just going to do a two by three. So I have my second ball and I'm just going to do that. And I will come back on when all of my cookies are done. You warm up your oven to 350. Okay, so now we have our six cookies and what we're going to be doing is we're going to be putting them in the oven that is preheated to do 100 of them. I'm just going to slide those in and that's what they look like. I'm going to leave these on for 10 minutes. So let's wait until they're done. Okay, so my 10 minute timer went off and so now it's just time to pull out the cookies. They're not ready if you don't have, if they don't have golden brown on the bottom. What's that in my cell? Okay, it is hot. Put the cooking pans not on flat. The flat surface, put it on something that elevates that. They look so good. They should be brown on the bottom and right now you have to be really gentle with them because they're kind of flimsy, but once they cool, they're going to be hard. Hard or more stable? More stable. Oh my goodness, I can't wait to eat one. I've had you cookies before and I love them. Okay. So this is what they look like and we'll come back once we make another batch and once these cool. So they came out of the oven and this is them off the pan. When they're off the tray, they should be golden brown on the bottom, not like black or brown. They should be golden brown because that means they're done if they're not yet and you need a few more minutes. You will have enough dough to make a completely another batch, maybe even like a little bit less than three, but you can do the same thing to repeat the process. If you want it to go quicker, when you're first making the cookies and you can use two trays, do it two at a time, I just think it's easier to do it one at a time. So we'll be back once the cookies are cooled and we have some milk and we're going to see how they taste. This is really good.