Thanks for the easy recipe. Roll out cookies are well worth the extra effort. Bake some with kids and make some memories. This is a nice quick recipe because you don't have to chill the dough, etc.

The cookies came out nicely and tasted great but I had trouble rolling the dough, I followed the direction exactly, but my dough was very flaky and kept falling apart, the glaze was great though.

The dough was easy to work with and kept its shape while baking, so the cut-outs stayed true. I think the glaze my be improved w/a bit of lemon extract to compliment the flavor of the cookie.

These are great! The dough is so easy to work with, and the flavor and consistency is fabulous. I made it with the lemon juice and the flavor was great. The frosting is also great to work with. I was a bit sceptical, but it was the perfect frosting for the cookie, and was also really easy to work with.

Incredibly easy, tastes just as good as the one I used to make that took over 2 hours in the fridge. Have found a holiday cookie recipe for life. I too switched the lemon extract for more vanilla. I used my own glaze, so don't know how that one turns out. Definitely try it!

This dough was the perfect playdough texture to work with, and it didn't have to be chilled! The cookies baked beautifully and were so much fun to decorate. They were an excellent, flaky texture, not too hard and tasted excellent. I didn't have lemon extract, so I used almond extract as suggested by others, and they came out great.

SUPER easy recipe. Very quick too. After reading some other reviews I added about 1/4 teas. cinnamon, 1/8 teas. nutmeg and a few pinches of salt for flavor. I also rolled mine a little thicker and the cookies were soft and yummy!

These recipes were great!! I made some with the lemon extract and some with almond extract. Both were great! Thank you for the recipe!!

These were very easy and good. I didn't use the glaze and also substituted almond extract. I don't usually like to make cutouts because rolling them can be a pain but these were easy to roll. I will be making these again and again.

Not bad, but definitely not the best-tasting roll-out sugar cookies. 5 stars for easy rolling, but they were too crisp and not very flavorful. If you're looking for a softer and more moist roll-out sugar cookie, look elsewhere.

This is the best roll out recipe I have ever used. The dough was perfect. I also used the almond extract and they tasted delicious! I will definatley use this next year for Christimas.

I haven't had a lot of luck in the past making cut out cookies, but these cookies were truly so easy and turned out so well. My 31/2 yr daughter had so much fun rolling and cutting. Decorating was a blast with Mom's cream cheese frosting. I am still cleaning up sprinkles! Note: The dough seemed a bit crumbly, but still worked out. Room temp. makes a huge difference over trying to soften butter or shortening in the microwave.

Felt as if the cookie was missing something... Not a fan. However, the glaze was pretty good.

This cookie tastes good - but it was more trouble than it's worth in my opinion. Granted, this was the first "from scratch" cookie I have ever made so maybe therein lies the problem. I had to add at least 1 cup more flour than the recipe calls for. I wasn't sure what the consisency should be at first but soon realized 3 cups was definitely not enough. They also took a little longer to bake than listed, more like 9 minutes for me. Again, for such a "ho-hum" cookie, wouldn't go thru the trouble again.

These were fantastic! I saw a lot of people didn't use the lemon extract though...seriously, use it! That made them so good! I also did the glaze. It was so much fun and it was really good. I just used a regular children's paintbrush. I love the fact that this doesn't have to be chilled. This is a great recipe to use with kids because you're not on a time crunch to cut them out. This is a new family favorite! Thanks!

These were the easiest cut out cookies I have made yet. They didn't need to be refrigerated (yeah) and they came together quickly. The most difficult part was getting the last of the flour mixed in, but I just dumped the mixture onto a well cleaned counter top and used my hands to mix it together (sort of like kneading bread) and it came together really well. I also used Almond Extract rather than lemon and they are very good. If you roll them out thin they are really crisp (a great texture for a sugar cookie) OR you can roll them thicker and they hold together better but were NOT tough. VERY NICE. This will be our Christmas Cookie Recipe from here forward. Thanks so much!

I really liked this cookie. It was really, really easy to make, and the dough was perfect to work with. Like other reviewers, I used almond extract for the lemon, but I think lemon would have worked well also. They were very tasty and buttery, and the dough never fell apart. One trick I used was to roll out the dough on parchment paper, then cut out the cookie shapes, and then peel away the remaining dough rather than try to lift the shapes, and transfer the whole sheet of parchment to a cookie sheet. I read that tip from a reviewer on another recipe, and it worked GREAT. So easy! I reused the same two pieces of parchment paper for each batch baked. Instead of the glaze, I added 1/2 teaspoon of water to an egg yolk, divided the mixture into 3 small bowls, and tinted them yellow, orange and red. I then painted this mixture on my cookies BEFORE baking. I made brightly colored autumn leaves, and my kids were thrilled! Next time I might use the glaze, though. I think I made the egg yolk mixture too thin, and it looked a little patchy on the cookies. Happy baking, everyone! UPDATE, 12/18: I made these with the lemon extract, and it's a perfect, gentle lemon flavor. Excellent.