Sugar Cookie Cutouts

Sugar Cookie Cutouts

Ingredients
1 cup butter, room temp
1 cup sugar
2 egg yolks
Dash salt
1 tsp almond extract
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour plus additional for rolling
Decorative sugar

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream together butter and sugar.
3. Beat in egg yolks, salt, and almond extract.
4. Incorporate flour to form dough.
5. Roll out dough on a well-floured surface, kneading additional flour into dough for optimal cutting consistency. Dough is perfect when the cookie cutter makes a clean cut.
6. Cut dough into desired shapes.
7. Pour colored sugar into a shallow dish. Gently press cookie cut-out into sugar before placing on ungreased a baking sheet.
8. Bake each sheet 10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet.