Soft Sugar Cookies – my favorite sugar cookie recipe. Great for the holidays! No rolling and cutting. Just shape into balls and bake. Butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, almond extract, baking powders salt, flour, and sprinkles. Can change the sprinkles according to the holidays and team colors. SO good! I could eat the whole batch! #cookies #cookierecipe #sugarcookies
Soft Sugar Cookies like the Grocery Store
If you still need some cookies for Santa this weekend, these soft sugar cookies would be perfect! They are soft and chewy, and, best of all, they don’t require chilling or rolling out! That is my kind of sugar cookie! Not only are these cookies easy to make, but they also taste great! They stay soft and chewy, Ā even the day after baking. Just like those yummy cookies you buy at the store!
How to Make Soft Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles
As I said, these cookies are super easy to make. In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer on high speed until fluffy. Add the eggs, vanilla, and almond extract. Beat until mixed. Add baking powder, salt, and flour and mix until combined. Roll the dough into balls, then roll each ball in the sprinkles to cover the top of the cookie. Place the cookies on a cookie sheet and bake.
- You can use any color sprinkles you like.
- Don’t want sprinkles? You can leave them off.
- Can Soft Sugar Cookies be frozen? Yes! You can freeze the baked cookies or the unbaked cookie dough.
- To freeze the cookie dough, scoop the dough into balls and placing them on a cookie sheet, and freeze. Once the dough is frozen, transfer the balls to a freezer bag.
- When ready to bake, partially thaw the cookie dough and roll in the sprinkles. Bake as directed below.
- If your dough is partially frozen, you may need to add a few minutes to the cooking time.
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Soft Sugar Cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1Ā½ cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 2Ā½ tsp baking powder
- Ā¼ tsp salt
- 2Ā½ cups all-purpose flour
- ā cup sprinkles
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 400ĀŗF. Set the sprinkles into a small bowl. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer on high speed until fluffy. Add the eggs, vanilla and almond extract. Beat until mixed. Add the baking powder and salt and beat until mixed. Add the flour and beat on medium speed until mixed well.
- Roll the dough into 1Ā½ inch balls, then roll each ball in the sprinkles to cover the top of the cookie. Place two inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake 10 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Allow to cool 2 minutes before removing from cookie sheets and setting onto wire racks to cool completely.
Notes:
- You can use any color sprinkles you like.
- Don’t want sprinkles? You can leave them off.
- Can Soft Sugar Cookies be frozen? Yes! You can freeze the baked cookies or the unbaked cookie dough.
- To freeze the cookie dough, scoop the dough into balls and placing them on a cookie sheet, and freeze. Once the dough is frozen, transfer the balls to a freezer bag.
- When ready to bake, partially thaw the cookie dough and roll in the sprinkles. Bake as directed below.
- If your dough is partially frozen, you may need to add a few minutes to the cooking time.
Steph
This is an awesome recipe!!! I mean, perfect really. Mine needed no tweaking. Everyone thought I bought them. I will make these all the time….easy and delicious!!!! Thanks!!
The dough was so sticky I couldn't work with it. I added a bit more flour and put it in the fridge for an hour. Then formed in balls and baked them but they wouldn't flatten out, they came out still in somewhat of a ball. The next batch I baked, I flattened them out with a spoon dipped in water. Turned out great!
Those look so festive. I like soft sugar cookies too.
This recipe is a keeper! At 8pm tonight (Christmas) the mood struck me to make sugar cookies. Rarely do cookies come out wonderful from a new (untweaked) recipe. This recipe needs no tweaking! I made my own red sprinkles & 20 minutes later I was munching on cookies faster than you can say "Ho Ho Ho".
Thank you so much for completing our day full of holiday edibles.
Cheers,
Heather @ Find That Warm Fuzzy Feeling
I made these cookies last night and dough was to soft to roll into balls. It was almost like a thick cake batter. I ended up adding a touch bit more flour and that didn't help very much so I stuck the batter in the fridge for several hours. That seemed to help but when rolling into balls the dough was very sticky. Is this how the dough is supposed to be? Any suggestions to correct?
PS: The cookies just came out of the oven and were delicious!! It was just a messy process prepping everything else
Thanks for sharing this great recipe! I haven't been baking Christmas cookies for several years but decided today to make these for my daughter. She loves a soft cookie. These were simple to make and tasty, too. Thanks again!
Merry Christmas!
Oh, I am all over Sugar Cookies! And with Cream Cheese Frosting, perfecto! Merry Christmas.
These look delicious. I hope you have a great Christmas!