Mixing Dry Ingredients for Rolled Sugar Cookies

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail. On behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make a variety of different rolled sugar cookies. Our first step for making, mixing our sugar cookies is going to be mixing our dry ingredients first. Now it's very important when mixing up the wet and dry that all of the dry ingredients have been incorporated together first. This will help prevent lumping and it will make sure that your baking powder gets distributed thoroughly throughout. If you otherwise add your dry ingredients to the wet ingredients without mixing them first then your baking powder is going to have a high tendency to clump up and not mix thoroughly. First of all this is going to have not very pleasant tasting lumps if you ever tasted baking powder it's not something you to eat on its own. Secondly it will prevent your cookies from rising fully cookies are not going to rise a whole lot because you don't want nice big puffy cookies that you are going to be cutting. You just want them to be a little bit of a rise so that they are not a dense cookie that you are really struggling to eat. We are going to add 3/4 of a cup of flour, 1/4 teaspoon of salt and then a 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder. Just like with the flour you want to have a level measure of the baking powder and then we are just going to gently stir this. It doesn't take much to incorporate it throughout. Then once you see any white streaks from the baking powder it's time to go on to the next step."