To get started, grab a bowl, and inside of it, cream together your sugar and butter, followed by your vanilla, and mix all of those elements in with one another as best you can. As you do, pick up your flour, and gradually add it amongst those ingredients, and don’t forget to keep mixing everything up the entire time.
When you’re happy with how blended and combined all of those elements are, cover that bowl, and let it sit in the fridge for about an hour.
Once that time period has elapsed, remove the dough, and start to shape it into little sticks. I’d say aim for something with the dimensions of about 2 ½” x ½”. That should be the perfect size for this recipe.
When you’ve successfully shaped all of your dough, place each one, about 2” apart from one another, onto a baking sheet(s).
Then, with the help of a fork, press down gently on about ¾ of each cookie. You should be left with roughly 75% of each “dough-stick” sporting a lined indentation from the tynes of the fork.
Preheat oven at 350°
Throw these baking sheets into a preheated oven at 350° for about 15 minutes. You’ll know they are ready to be removed once they set completely.
When that occurs, remove them from the oven, and place them on the counter to cool.