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! These cookies are perfect for decorating and can be customized for ANY season or holiday ! We have an entire collection of ideas, ranging from frosted to unfrosted, traditional to holiday-themed.
Our Top 10 Picks
1 Frosted Sugar Cookies
Frosted Sugar Cookies
Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
Our ALL-TIME favorite frosted sugar cookies are so soft and have the best, creamy frosting with hints of almond!
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2 3 Ingredient Sugar Cookie Recipe
3 Ingredient Sugar Cookie Recipe
Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
Quick, easy, and delicious 3 ingredients sugar cookies are ready in minutes. You can't get easier than that!!
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3 Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
Total Time: 2 hours hours 18 minutes minutes
Cream cheese sugar cookies are a melt-in-your-mouth cutout cookie. Easy to make and fun to decorate!
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4 Drop Sugar Cookies
Drop Sugar Cookies
Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
Drop sugar cookies will satisfy that sweet tooth in under 30 minutes with no rolling pin required – just drop and bake for delicious cookies!
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5 Lemon Sugar Cookies Recipe
Lemon Sugar Cookies Recipe
Total Time: 30 minutes minutes
Frosted Lemon Sugar Cookies are buttery soft, with the perfect hint of lemon. They're a perfect treat for lemon lovers!
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6 Copycat Swig Cookies
Copycat Swig Cookies
Total Time: 18 minutes minutes
Make Swig's famous sugar cookies at home! These copycat Swig cookies are THICK and delicious, topped with a creamy frosting.
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7 Lofthouse Sugar Cookies Recipe
Lofthouse Sugar Cookies Recipe
Total Time: 2 hours hours 18 minutes minutes
Copycat Lofthouse Sugar Cookies taste just like those amazing melt-in-your-mouth cookies from the grocery store. They are SO soft and yummy.
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8 Sugar Cookie Blossoms Recipe
Sugar Cookie Blossoms Recipe
Total Time: 17 minutes minutes
Sugar Cookie Blossoms are a chewy, soft sugar cookie rolled in sugar and topped with a Mint Meltaway candy. They're simple and delicious!
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9 Chewy Sugar Cookie Recipe
Chewy Sugar Cookie Recipe
Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
These Chewy Sugar Cookies are SO yummy! A hint of almond extract and a bit of glaze makes these cookies irresistible!
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10 Amish Sugar Cookie Recipe
Amish Sugar Cookie Recipe
Total Time: 18 minutes minutes
Amish Sugar Cookies are uncomplicated, simple and elegant. This quick cookie is deliciously soft and thick!
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11 Sugar Cookie Bars
Sugar Cookie Bars
Total Time: 35 minutes minutes
Frosted sugar cookie bars are one of everyone's favorite cookies in bar form! They're ready in 30 minutes, and perfect for sharing.
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12 Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies
Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies
Total Time: 18 minutes minutes
Soft and sweet Valentine's Day sugar cookies are the perfect way to say I love you! They are super simple and make a great treat for gifting.
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13 St. Patrick’s Day Cookies Recipe
St. Patrick’s Day Cookies Recipe
Total Time: 3 hours hours 20 minutes minutes
Slice-and-bake St Patrick's Day Cookies are the perfect treat to make for the March holiday and one that the kids will go nuts over!
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14 Easter Sugar Cookies
Easter Sugar Cookies
Total Time: 3 hours hours 20 minutes minutes
Shaped like a bird's nest, these deliciously adorable Easter sugar cookies are perfect for all things spring!
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15 Halloween Sugar Cookie Recipe
Halloween Sugar Cookie Recipe
Total Time: 18 minutes minutes
Halloween sugar cookies are melt-in-your-mouth delicious. These cute pumpkins are perfect for parties and fall festivals!!
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16 Halloween Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe
Halloween Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe
Total Time: 24 minutes minutes
Simply spooky Halloween Sugar Cookie Cake with homemade cream cheese frosting, M&M's and sprinkles is the perfect Halloween dessert!
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17 Thanksgiving Sugar Cookies
Thanksgiving Sugar Cookies
Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
Thanksgiving sugar cookies take our favorite cookie base and top it with a cute candy turkey – kid-friendly and perfect for celebrating!
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18 Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe
Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes minutes
Our favorite best-loved Christmas sugar cookies recipe uses an easy no-chill dough and looks as magical as it tastes!
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19 Peppermint Sugar Cookies
Peppermint Sugar Cookies
Total Time: 23 minutes minutes
Frosted peppermint sugar cookies are a delightful holiday twist on Mom's BEST-LOVED cookies – perfect for Christmas!
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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!