Match the sprinkles on top of the cookies before baking like the famous finds in Mrs. Fields cookies or frost them to your heart's desire.
Round and plain, crunchy and chewy, these can be baked to your taste just by how long you bake your cookies, the longer you bake the crispier cookies.
We also include a super easy recipe using just a cookie sugar mix with a few additions you can have festive cookies in no time!
Try our homemade recipe or store-bought sugar cookie mix recipe in the recipe card at the bottom just scroll and hit print!.
Easy and Versatile
This tender cookie is so easy to make and seems to be a plain cookie everyone always asks for, especially on the Christmas cookie tray.
With a wonderful butter flavor and the ability to change extracts to any flavor, frost or unfrosted, the skies are the limit of possibilities.
You can use various cookie cutter shapes to cut this dough to the party theme and it will surely compliment any occasion.
We make this classic sugar cookie all year round however it's a must make at Christmas for the kids with Santa, reindeer, and Christmas trees.
Ingredients You Will Need
- butter
- flour
- egg
- sugar
- vanilla
- shortening
- milk
- baking powder
- salt
Dough Suggestions and Toppings
- fold in 1/2 chocolate chips
- sprinkle the tops with cinnamon sugar
- add food coloring to the dough for a color-matched holiday theme divide half of it red and leave plain for candy canes, then twist the rolled dough together and bend the top into shape
- dip them in white chocolate
- frost with buttercream icing
- use crushed candy canes on top for a garnish
- cut out two small shot glass rounds and one large glass round to make Disney Micky Mouse Cookies
Tips for Making the Perfect Sugar Cookies
- for really chewy cookies roll in a ball and do not flatten bake until golden
- for crispy cooking bake longer until edges are nicely browned and tops start to brown
- for softer cookies take them out while still golden in color
- to reduce spreading while baking place the cookie tray in the freeze for 20 minutes
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The Classic Sugar Cookie
If you were looking for the classic-tasting cookie you find in a bakery, this is it.
Thin and crispy, or high and chewy it all depends on the thickness and how long you bake them.
Roll into balls roll in sugar and flatten for thin, leave them in a ball for thick and chewy, it's that simple.
Sugar Cookies
Yield: 25
Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 15 MinTotal time: 25 Min
Sugar cookies crisp on the outside with a chewy center. Just about any shape, you make for any holiday this is the perfect dough for cutouts!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup shortening
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Use an electric mixer to cream the sugar shortening and butter until fluffy.
- Add, egg, milk, and vanilla and blend together evenly.
- Stir in the flour, and baking powder and blend together evenly.
- Refrigerate for 3 hours covered.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Cut cookies to desired shapes.
- Place on a parchment-lined cookie sheet.
- Tip: for a perfectly shaped form, freeze the cookie sheet with cookies for 20 minutes before baking this will hold their shape perfectly.
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until just begins to brown.
- Cool, remove from the cookie sheet, and enjoy!
- Butter Cream Frosting Recipe Below
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- drops food coloring optional
- garnish with sprinkled candies or other toppings of choice
- In a hurry? Try out the Sugar Cookie Cutouts Recipe using a Sugar Cookie Mix:
- 1 pouch (17.5 oz) sugar cookie
- mix 3 tablespoons of all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 egg
- Mix all together, and cut into shapes with cookie cutters.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes.
- Cool completely before frosting.
- Frost with homemade or canned frosting and enjoy!
Notes
Tips for Making the Perfect Sugar Cookies
- for really chewy cookies roll in a ball and do not flatten bake until golden
- for crispy cooking bake longer until edges are nicely browned and tops start to brown
- for softer cookies take them out while still golden in color
- to reduce spreading while baking place the cookie tray in the freeze for 20 minutes
Dough Suggestions and Toppings
- fold in 1/2 chocolate chips
- sprinkle the tops with cinnamon sugar
- add food coloring to the dough for a color-matched holiday theme
- dip them in white chocolate
- frost with buttercream icing
- use crushed candy canes on top for a garnish
- cut out two small shot glass rounds and one large glass round to make Disney Micky Mouse Cookies
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