Sugar Cookies

1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter
1 1/4 cups granualted sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp lemon extract
1 egg
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt (you may need a bit more salt if you use unsalted butter)
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup Wilton's sparkling white sugar crystals
1 tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 365^F.  Grease cookie sheets.

Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.  Add vanilla, lemon extract and egg and beat until well combined.  Stir in the baking powder, soda, salt and flour until well combined. 

Combine the granulated sugar, sugar crystals and cinnamon in a small bowl.

Roll 1 tablespoon dough into a ball and then roll it in the cinnamon-sugar mixture until coated.  Place on cookie sheets about 2-inches apart and flatten each cookie with the bottom of a glass to about 1/4-inch thick.  Bake for 10-12 minutes. 

These are delicious!  They taste like the sugar cookies from my childhood.  Nice and chewy in the middle and crunchy around the edges.  Yum!

Adapted from the Sugar Cookie recipe at King Arthur Flour.