Easy Sugar Cookies are the recipe that Teresa makes every holiday and every most colorfully decorated cookie-gifting occasion when she wants to create the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely perfect individual cut-out sugar cookie that holds the most crisp individual edges during baking, maintains the most beautifully defined individual shape without any individual spreading or the most devastating individual puddling that ruins the most elaborate individual cookie cutter shapes, and achieves the most beautifully soft and the most properly thick individual crumb without any individual chilling required.
Because the most brilliantly designed individual recipe uses the most specifically calibrated combination of softened butter for the most essential flavor and the most gentle individual creaming, the most generous individual cream cheese addition for the most essential non-spreading individual structure and the most tender individual crumb, and the most carefully measured individual flour-to-fat ratio that produces the most properly stiff and the most beautifully manageable individual dough that rolls and cuts the most effortlessly.
Easy Sugar Cookies are the most easy and deeply extraordinary 30-minute soft thick no-chill holiday individual cut-out sugar cookies made by creaming butter cream cheese and sugar adding egg vanilla and almond extract mixing flour baking powder and salt rolling to 3/8-inch thickness cutting into shapes and baking at 375°F for 8 to 10 minutes. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful cookie recipes and easy holiday favorites from our kitchen every single week.
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Why You Will Love This Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
This Easy Sugar Cookies recipe is the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely foolproof individual cut-out sugar cookie that requires absolutely no individual refrigerator chilling before rolling and cutting — the most cream cheese in the individual dough provides the most sufficient individual structure to maintain the most crisp individual edges and the most beautifully defined individual cookie cutter shapes without any individual pre-baking chill time.
The most essential individual cream cheese addition is the single most brilliantly transformative ingredient that distinguishes these individual easy sugar cookies from every most conventional cut-out individual sugar cookie recipe — cream cheese simultaneously prevents the most individual spreading during baking for the most cleanly defined individual cut-out edges, contributes the most essential additional fat for the most beautifully soft and the most properly tender individual crumb, and provides the most subtle individual tang that makes every individual bite the most properly extraordinary rather than simply the most plainly sweet individual result. Our Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake makes a beautifully equally soft sugar cookie and equally celebration companion for a complete and wonderful sugar cookie collection.
Ingredients Needed for This Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
For the No-Chill Sugar Cookies:
- 3 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 cup Unsalted Butter, softened
- 4 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese, softened (½ package)
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 large Egg, room temperature
- 1½ tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- ½ tsp Pure Almond Extract
For the Bakery-Style Frosting:
- 1 cup Unsalted Butter, room temperature
- 3 to 4 cups Powdered Sugar, sifted
- 2 to 3 tbsp Heavy Cream
- 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- ½ tsp Pure Almond Extract
- Pinch of Salt
- Gel Food Coloring of choice
- Sprinkles for decoration
How to Make This Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, beat the softened butter and softened cream cheese together until the most completely smooth. Add the sugar and beat for 2 minutes until the most light and fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla, and almond extract and mix until combined, cara mia.
Add the flour mixture and mix on low just until the most cohesive and the most smooth individual dough forms — slightly stiffer than conventional individual cookie dough. The individual dough should pull away cleanly from the sides of the bowl.
Turn the individual dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Roll to approximately 3/8-inch thickness — slightly thicker than most conventional individual sugar cookie recipes for the most beautifully tall and the most properly soft individual finished cookie.
Cut into the most desired individual shapes using cookie cutters. Transfer to the prepared baking sheets.
Bake at 375°F for 8 to 10 minutes until the edges are the most just set and the most very slightly golden but the centers appear the most still very pale and very soft. The most proper individual easy sugar cookie should appear the most still underdone at the moment of individual oven removal — the most center firms most significantly during the cooling period.
Cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool the most completely before frosting.
For the individual bakery-style frosting, beat the room-temperature butter until the most pale and fluffy. Add sifted powdered sugar, cream, vanilla, almond extract, and salt. Beat on medium-high for 3 minutes until the most incredibly fluffy and beautifully spreadable. Tint with gel food coloring as desired. Frost cooled cookies and decorate with sprinkles.
How to Serve This Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
Serve at room temperature for the most beautifully set individual frosting and the most properly soft individual sugar cookie texture. These individual easy sugar cookies are the most extraordinary when the most completely cooled and the most individually frosted — the most individual frosting firms slightly during the individual drying period for the most beautifully stackable and the most properly giftable individual result.
For the most beautifully gifted individual holiday cookie presentation, arrange individual frosted cookies in a most decorated individual cookie tin or the most beautifully wrapped individual cellophane bag tied with individual ribbon for the most completely charming and the most genuinely thoughtful individual homemade holiday cookie gift. Our Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake makes a beautifully equally soft sugar cookie and equally festive companion for a complete and wonderful sugar cookie celebration collection.
How to Store This Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
Store individual unfrosted cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to one week. Store individual frosted cookies in an airtight container with parchment paper between individual layers for up to 5 days. Freeze individual unfrosted cookies for up to 3 months — frost after thawing at room temperature.
Tips to Make This Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
Roll the individual dough to exactly 3/8-inch thickness for the most beautifully soft and the most properly thick individual easy sugar cookie — rolling too thin produces the most crispy and the most improperly hard individual cookie while too thick produces the most underbaked individual center. Use the most individual rolling pin guides or the most two equal-height wooden dowels placed alongside the individual rolling pin for the most perfectly consistent individual 3/8-inch thickness throughout.
Use gel food coloring rather than liquid for the most vibrant and the most properly saturated individual frosting colors without adding any most excess individual liquid that would thin the most carefully achieved individual frosting consistency.
Helpful Notes for This Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
The most beautifully bakery-style individual sugar cookie frosting in this recipe pipes and spreads the most magnificently — load a piping bag with the most star tip for the most elegant individual piped frosting or use an offset spatula for the most cleanly spread individual flat frosting that showcases the most subsequent individual sprinkle decoration the most effectively.
For the most perfect individual cookie cutter shapes without the most individual dough sticking to cutters, dip individual cookie cutters in flour before each most individual cut for the most clean and the most properly defined individual edge release.
Variation of This Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
Maria made a version adding the zest of one lemon and substituting lemon extract for the almond extract for the most completely extraordinary and the most vibrantly bright individual lemon sugar cookie with individual lemon buttercream frosting. Teresa tried a spiced holiday version — adding half a teaspoon of cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg to the individual dough — for the most completely extraordinary and the most warmly spiced individual holiday sugar cookie.
For a chocolate sugar cookie version, replace a quarter cup of the individual flour with the same quantity of natural cocoa powder for the most completely extraordinary and the most deeply chocolate individual cut-out sugar cookie with white chocolate or pink individual buttercream frosting. Our Lemon Cookie Cake makes a beautifully equally soft sugar cookie and equally spring companion for a complete and wonderful sugar cookie collection.
FAQs About This Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
Why don’t these sugar cookies need chilling?
The most cream cheese in the individual dough provides the most sufficient individual structural stability to maintain the most crisp individual edges and the most beautifully defined individual cookie cutter shapes without any individual refrigerator chill time. The most cream cheese’s the most individual fat composition produces the most properly stiff and the most manageable individual dough at room temperature that conventional butter-only individual doughs achieve only through the most refrigerator chilling.
Why use almond extract in sugar cookies?
Pure almond extract is the single most specific individual ingredient that produces the most recognizably authentic and the most genuinely nostalgic individual sugar cookie individual flavor character that every most individual person immediately identifies as the most true individual bakery-style individual sugar cookie. Even the most small half teaspoon contributes the most unmistakably distinctive individual sugar cookie aromatic character that distinguishes these from the most simply vanilla-flavored individual butter cookies.
What is the best way to achieve clean individual cut-out shapes?
Three most effective individual techniques for the most cleanly cut and the most beautifully defined individual sugar cookie shapes are: rolling the individual dough on a well-floured individual surface, dipping the most individual cookie cutters in flour before each most individual cut, and chilling the most cut-out individual shapes on the most individual baking sheet in the refrigerator for 10 minutes before baking if the most individual kitchen is the most warm. The most cold individual dough holds the most crisp individual shape the most effectively during the most initial oven individual heat.
Conclusion
These Easy Sugar Cookies are the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely perfect soft thick no-chill cut-out individual holiday cookies that make every celebration and every gifting occasion feel genuinely and completely special through the most cream cheese-structured soft vanilla almond individual sugar cookie base and the most beautifully fluffy bakery-style individual frosting and the most generous sprinkle decoration in every single beautifully individual and completely irresistible easy sugar cookie.
We hope they bring the same deeply joyful holiday cookie decorating magic and the same completely delighted kitchen to your home that they have always brought to ours. Make them, share them, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa.
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Easy Sugar Cookies The Most Easy Soft Thick No-Chill No-Spread Butter Vanilla Almond Bakery Frosting Individual Cut-Out Cookie
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 24 to 30 cookies depending on cutter size 1x
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
The most extraordinary soft thick no-chill Easy Sugar Cookies made by preheating oven to 375°F lining baking sheets whisking 3 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt beating 1 cup softened butter and 4 oz softened cream cheese until smooth adding 1 cup sugar beating 2 minutes light and fluffy adding 1 room temperature egg 1 1/2 tsp vanilla and 1/2 tsp almond extract mixing combined adding flour mixture on low until cohesive smooth slightly stiff dough forms turning onto lightly floured surface rolling to 3/8-inch thickness cutting into shapes with cookie cutters dipped in flour transferring to sheets baking 375°F 8 to 10 minutes until edges just set and very slightly golden and centers still very pale and soft cooling 5 minutes on sheet then on rack cooling completely then beating 1 cup room temperature butter pale and fluffy adding 3 to 4 cups sifted powdered sugar cream vanilla almond and salt beating medium-high 3 minutes fluffy tinting with gel coloring frosting cooled cookies and decorating with sprinkles. A completely perfect soft thick no-chill cream cheese vanilla almond sugar cookie bakery frosting recipe.
Ingredients
3 cups All-Purpose Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
1 cup Unsalted Butter softened
4 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese softened
1 cup Granulated Sugar
1 large Egg room temperature
1 1/2 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
1/2 tsp Pure Almond Extract
1 cup Unsalted Butter room temperature for frosting
3 to 4 cups Powdered Sugar sifted
2 to 3 tbsp Heavy Cream
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract for frosting
1/2 tsp Pure Almond Extract for frosting
Pinch of Salt for frosting
Gel Food Coloring of choice
Sprinkles for decoration
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 375°F 190°C. Line baking sheets with parchment.
2. Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
3. Beat softened butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar. Beat 2 minutes light and fluffy.
4. Add egg, vanilla, and almond extract. Mix combined.
5. Add flour mixture on low just until cohesive smooth slightly stiff dough forms.
6. Turn onto lightly floured surface. Roll to 3/8-inch thickness.
7. Cut into shapes with floured cookie cutters. Transfer to prepared sheets.
8. Bake 375°F 8 to 10 minutes until edges just set and very slightly golden and centers still pale and soft.
9. Cool 5 minutes on sheet. Transfer to rack. Cool completely.
10. Beat room temperature butter pale and fluffy. Add powdered sugar, cream, vanilla, almond, and salt. Beat medium-high 3 minutes fluffy. Tint with gel coloring.
11. Frost cooled cookies. Decorate with sprinkles.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Dessert, Cookies, Holiday, Cut-Out
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie with frosting
- Calories: 215
- Sugar: 18g
- Sodium: 85mg
- Fat: 12g
- Saturated Fat: 7g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 26g
- Fiber: 0.3g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 42mg
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