Matcha Sugar Cookies

In a medium mixing bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the softened butter and sugar for about 1 full minute. If your butter was previously in the fridge, just microwave for about 20 seconds to soften, or let it sit out until it reaches room temperature.
Beat in the apple sauce and vanilla.
Add in the dry ingredients, making sure to spoon and level the flour, don't scoop from the bag.
Fold together until well combined. If using white chocolate, add this in now. Set the dough in the fridge for 20-30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Remove the dough from the fridge and use a medium cookie scoop and roll into balls. Roll each cookie dough ball in sanding sugar (regular white sugar will also work) and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Place each dough ball several inches apart, I usually do no more than 6 per cookie sheet.
Bake for 11-15 minutes, 13 is usually perfect in my oven, but all ovens are different. They will continue to harden as they cool.
Use a round cookie cutter to scoot around the edges of each cookie to create perfect circles as soon as they come out of the oven and are still warm.
let cool, then enjoy!

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