Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies

*recipe adapted from here

Here is the recipe I used with Rosalyn and Julia Rose.  Perfect cookies for little hands and oh so delicious.

Rosalyn and Julia Rose were so excited about their cookies they made.
 They may have been even more excited about eating them.  

Ingredients:

2 1/3 cups all purpose flour
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions:
- Combine sugar and butter in a mixing bowl and beat on low speed until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Next, mix in the vanilla and egg.
- Then add the baking soda and flour and stir until the mixture is blended evenly.
*At this point I refrigerated mine until it was time to make cookies but you can use this dough as soon as it is made too.
- Use a small cookie scoop or teaspoon to scoop out the dough into round balls.*
*at this point you can decorate the cookies with sugar sprinkles, regular sprinkles, or anything else you might want to decorate with.  If you want to put chocolate kisses, wait until the cookies have come out of the oven.
- Place the cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.  I left the cookies in their ball form and baked them from here.  If you desire you can use the bottom of a glass to flatten them.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes depending on your oven.  DO NOT OVER BAKE!!!  Take them out as soon as the edges are golden brown.  Allow them to cool for about 1 minute and then move  them to a wire rack to finish cooling.
- ENJOY!!!

Finished Products - minus quite a few.