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These delicious cut or drop sugar cookie ideas are perfect for frosting or icing! Just add some sprinkles, and pour a cold glass of milk.
Our Favorite Cookies!
Sugar cookies are our FAVORITE cookies! Whether you are rolling or cutting, they are worth the effort (at least in our book). We wanted to put all of our BEST sugar cookie ideas in one spot!
Prep ahead of time, wrap tightly, and chill the dough in the fridge for up to 5 days before rolling and baking. For longer storage, you can freeze the cookie dough.
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1 Frosted Sugar Cookies
Frosted Sugar Cookies
Total Time: 25 minutesminutes
Our ALL-TIME favorite frosted sugar cookies are so soft and have the best, creamy frosting with hints of almond!
These delicious cut or drop sugar cookie ideas are perfect for frosting or icing! Just add some sprinkles, and pour a cold glass of milk.
Servings: 24
Prep: 15 minutesmins
Cook: 10 minutesmins
Total: 25 minutesmins
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Ingredients
Cookies
¾cupunsalted butter,softened
1(8-ounce) packagecream cheese,softened
1cupgranulated sugar
½cuppowdered sugar
1teaspoonalmond extract
1egg
2¾cupsall-purpose flour
½teaspoonbaking powder
½teaspoonsalt
Frosting
4½cupspowdered sugar
⅓cupunsalted butter,softened
¼cupmilk,plus more as needed
½teaspoonvanilla extract
½teaspoonalmond extract
food coloring
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Lightly grease a cookie sheet and set aside.
Cream butter, cream cheese, granulated sugar, powederd sugar, almond extract, and egg in a large bowl or stand mixer until fluffy.
In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and stir until a soft dough forms.
Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to about ⅜ inch thick (roll thinner for more crunchy sugar cookies).
Cut with cookie cutters (or the top of a cup) and bake for 9–12 minutes on the prepared cookie sheet. Let cookies sit on the cookie sheet for a few minutes, then remove to a rack to cool.
Frosting
Mix powdered sugar, butter, milk, vanilla extract, and almond extract in a medium bowl with a hand mixer. Adjust the consistency by adding a little more milk. Add food coloring, if desired.
Frost cookies and let set before storing.
Notes
Prep ahead of time. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1-2 days or place the wrapped dough in a freezer Ziploc and freeze for 3 months. Store the frosting in an airtight container in the fridge for 3 weeks or freeze for 3 months. Store. Store baked cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days or in a freezer-safe container in the freezer for up to 3 months. If frosted, allow frosting to set, and separate layers with wax or parchment paper.
Kristyn Merkley is a published cookbook author, wife, mom of six, and major food enthusiast! For the past 15 years, she has been sharing foolproof, family-friendly recipes—each one tested in her kitchen—that anyone can master. As a seasoned recipe creator, she loves making cooking simple, stress-free, and totally doable for everyone!
I love your best sugar cookie recipe. It’s the perfect mix of soft and sturdy enough to hold shape and frosting.
Sugar cookies are my hubby’s favorite!! The more icing, the better in his opinion. We use your recipes & they are so good & soft!!
This is such an amazing list! My kids loved all of these!
There is a cookie here for everyone and I love them all. Thanks for gathering them all in one place!
I love all the different sugar cookie ideas. A different version for every occasion!
They all look so yummy! Adding those peppermint trees to my Christmas baking list. I love all things mint this time of year!