Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
Everyone needs an Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe! These are literally melt-in-your-mouth delicious and our go-to sugar cookie dough. It is perfect for decorating Christmas sugar cookies.
We love festive holiday treats like melt-in-your-mouth Snowball Cookies, soft Chocolate Chip Cookies, and of course Baklava. These beautifully decorated sugar cookies are a beautiful addition to the Christmas cookie platter.
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My name is Natalya and I run a food blog Momsdish. I love simple dishes that use minimal ingredients. During the holidays, I love baking but I hate making messes. This recipe for sugar cookies gives me the best of both worlds — perfect cookies and an easy clean-up. I’m so excited to share this recipe with you!
Sugar Cookies
Whether you are planning a cookie making party for the holidays or whipping up a batch for a friend’s birthday, you need a sugar cookie recipe that you can rely on. These cookies taste amazing, keep their shape and are perfect for eating plain or decorated with frosting and sprinkles. Let’s get started!
Tips For The Best Sugar Cookies:
Sugar cookies may seem simple, but there are a lot of bad recipes out there! After much trial and error, I feel confident that I have mastered the art of the sugar cookie. Here are all the best tips and tricks I have gathered throughout the years:
Rolling Out Sugar Cookies Dough
Roll your dough out directly on a silicone baking mat or piece of parchment paper so you do not have to transfer your delicate shapes onto a baking sheet later. You can cut your shapes out right atop the mat and make your life a bit easier.
How Thick Should Sugar Cookies be Rolled Out?
Roll your dough out to about ¼-inch thick. This is the sweet spot. You’ll have cookies thick enough to keep their shape, while also thin enough to promote even baking.
Avoid Crumbly Dough
Crumbly dough makes for misshapen cookies that are prone to uneven baking. To prevent this, don’t overmix your dough. You want the dough to be as smooth as possible. However, if you do get a crumbly texture, add ½ tbsp of water, or milk to the batter and incorporate it until it remoistens the dough.
Avoid Overbaking
10 minutes might seem like a very short baking time for cookies. But, trust me, do not overbake them! At around 10 minutes, the edges of the cookies should just start to turn golden brown. This is the time to pull them! If you continue baking, you risk compromising that signature tenderness of a perfect sugar cookie.
Storing Sugar Cookies
The great part about this recipe is that it can be made a couple of days in advance and the cookies will still retain their freshness. Below, I will share how you should store them and also how you can freeze your dough or baked cookies for later munching!
Storing Cookies at Room Temperature:
Store baked sugar cookies on the counter in an airtight container. They will keep for up to a week. Remember, if you have decorated your cookies, it is best to store them between layers of parchment paper to prevent sticking and/or destroying your designs.
Freezing Baked Sugar Cookies:
To freeze baked sugar cookies, first, make sure that you allow them to cool completely. Then, stack the cookies in an airtight container between layers of parchment paper. Freeze cookies for up to 2 months. When you are ready to eat them, allow them to thaw in the fridge overnight.
How to Freeze Sugar Cookie Dough:
To freeze your sugar cookie dough, roll it into a ball or a log. Wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and store it in an airtight container or freezer bag. The dough will keep for up to 2 months before you need to use it. When you are ready to bake, allow the dough to thaw in the refrigerator overnight. Then, make sure it reaches room temperature before you shape your cookies and bake them.
How to Make Sugar Cookies
- First, you will combine your flour, baking powder and salt together in a small bowl and set the dry mixture aside.
- Using a stand-up or handheld mixer, beat your butter, sugar and vanilla extract together until smooth and creamy.
- Slowly beat flour into the butter mixer until it is fully incorporated.
- Divide the dough into two equal parts and roll out each piece to ¼-inch thickness.
- Use a cookie cutter to cut out your favorite shapes or freeze your dough for later use.
- Bake the cookies and allow them to cool.
- Decorate the cookies as you please or gobble them up plain!
How to Decorate Sugar Cookies:
To decorate sugar cookies, you can make your own homemade royal icing which makes a great sugar cookie icing, add food coloring, then pipe it on with a squeeze bottle or little zip bags (handy and inexpensive for cookie decorating parties), or you can purchase an icing decorating kit with pre-made frostings in a variety of colors which makes it really easy. Don’t forget the Christmas sprinkles and crushed candy canes.
More Holiday Cookie Recipes
These are our best-loved (and reviewed) Christmas cookies to fill up your holiday cookie platters. These are well-loved by all ages and you’re sure to find some new favorites in this list. Looking for more Christmas recipes and inspiration? Check out our Christmas archives here.
- Almond Snowball Cookies
- Meringue Shell Cookies
- Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
- Soft Gingerbread Cookies
- Madeleine Cookies
- Meringue Shell Cookies
Easy Sugar Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg, (large)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, (measured correctly)
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 °F with a rack in the center. Whisk together flour with baking powder and salt in a small bowl and set aside.
- Using a stand-up or handheld mixer, beat the butter together with sugar. To the mixture add vanilla extract and egg and beat to combine.
- To the butter mixture, add flour in 3 parts until fully incorporated.
- Divide the dough into two equal parts. On a lightly floured surface, roll into ¼-inch thickness. Use a cookie cutter to cut out your favorite shapes.
- Bake cookies on a parchment or silicone-lined baking sheet at 350˚F for 10 minutes, or until the edges are just beginning to turn golden.
- Let the cookies cool for about 5 minutes on the baking sheet before moving them to a wire rack to cool completely and decorating with cookie icing.
Nutrition Per Serving
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Hi! I'm Natasha Kravchuk. Here you'll find delicious, trusted recipes with easy step-by-step photos and videos. 
Thanks,so much for sharing this with us. Looks beautiful. We welcomed our 4th child baby boy on December 25th ,so finaly im back to the kitchen cooking & baking & its my favorite thing to do is being in the kitchen. My older girls r so interested being in the kitchen with me. Im going to try this recipe. May God bless you and your family on this new 2021 new year!!!😊💐💖
You’re so welcome, Olga. Congratulations on your new blessing, your baby boy! Thank you for your good wishes and wishing you and your family the same too!
Hi Natasha,
I sooo wanted to love these because there was no chilling involved, and because I have lived everything I’ve ever made on your blog. However, this dough came out extremely crumbly. I added some water and it made a huge mess. Eventually, it did come together and the outcome was delicious, but we probably spent 15 minutes trying to make the dough smooth enough to roll out. We even made it a second time a few days later because I thought maybe I oversized, but the same thing happened. Any suggestions?
Hi Carla, it sounds like you may have had too much of the dry ingredient. Did you, by chance, scoop your flour? I recommend our post on measuring to make sure you measure your ingredient’s property. I hope this helps.
I just baked these with my grand daughter. I had the same problem and I measured very precisely. I fixed the dough by adding a couple of tablespoons of room temperature butter. Problem solved.
I have never made sugar cookies because I don’t like them. My granddaughter wanted to make them for Santa so I acquiesced. They were actually REALLY good much to my surprise. I followed the instructions to the letter and after 10 min I thought they were not done but they were. Such an excellent recipe Natasha.
I’m so happy you gave these a try! Thank you for this wonderful feedback, Janine!
I can’t bake to save my life and my kids wanted to make xmas cookies this year. I chose your recipe because I love your facebook videos. Well I have to tell you that your recipe is fool proof! The cookies turned out fabulous!!!! Thank you so much!
I’m so happy you enjoyed that. Thank you for sharing that with us, Shelley!
Love this recipe!!! Easy and simple & they came out really good!
Thank you for your good feedback, Anthony!
Happy Christmas Natasha
I like all recipes 😋🥰😍
Thank you and Merry Christmas too!
I saw you just made these on your Facebook story. Before I make them I wanted to know what specific icing you used for yours. I’m looking for an icing that holds well when the cookies are layered over one another as were yours in the tins, which looked awesome by the way! Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas!
Hi Dalia, you would want to use a royal icing (here is a recipe from my friend Sally).
Just made these with my toddler and husband – delicious! Thank you for the great and simple recipe
Such a sweet food memory you’ve created. I’m so glad you all loved the recipe.
I made these sugar cookies yesterday for the first time and they turned out great! I love how easy the recipe is. I’ll definitely be making these again.
That’s just awesome! Thank you for sharing your wonderful review!
Hi! If we just want to decorate the cookies with sprinkles (no frosting/icing), would we do that before we bake them? Any way to get the sprinkles to stay on without icing?
Hi Maria, you could either press them gently into a plate of sprinkles or sprinkle on the sprinkles and pat them gently into the cookies.
Hey Natasha! My daughter and I are going to make these today for Santa. We are currently quarantined because my husband tested positive yesterday…THE WEEK OF CHRISTMAS..Anyway, all I have is salted butter. Will that destroy my cookies?
Hi Whitney! I have made this with unsalted only. I worry it would be too much salt. If you happen to experiment, I would love to know how you like that. I hope you all stay happy and healthy!
I dont think these will DESTROY your cookies, it will definitely make them a little saltier to maybe dont add salt to your dough and make your icing a little sweeter to balance it out.
I often bake with salted butter. I just omit the salt from the recipe and everything turns out just fine.
The kids and I made these yesterday and they are delicious!
Thank you for yet another great recipe and Merry Christmas 🎄
Hello Beth, thank you for your wonderful review. I’m happy that you enjoyed these cookies!
My 5 yr old loved helping make these cookies… and of course the best part was eating them! An easy sugar cookie recipe to make, and so delicious! Thanks for the great recipe.
That is so cute! I think it’s a great bonding experience to cook with the kids, I’m glad you both enjoyed making this recipe. THanks for your great feedback, Amanda.
So I doubled the recipe while making with my nine year old. I let her count in the sugar and flour amounts and helped her with the mixing things in right order, but I confess I was multitasking instead of keeping eyes on the process. We’ve taken the easiest recipe ever and turned it into a crumbling mess! Any suggestions to save it? I’ve got another block of butter warming to room temperature to see if adding will help.
Thanks
Hi Kim, it may be possible there was too much dry ingredient added. I recommend our post on measuring to make sure everything is measured properly.
I love this recipe! Not only are the cookies delicious, this dough is by far the easiest I have ever worked with. This will be my go to recipe. Any easy frosting I use is 2 T melted butter or marg, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1/4 tsp almond extract, and about 1 T milk. Stir until smooth. Add more milk or sugar for desired consistency. Add color as desired.
Thanks again for this delicious recipe!
That’s just awesome! Thank you for sharing your wonderful review!
Hello, any Chance can we add cocoa powder to the cookies to make them chocolate? or what would you recommend to make the cookies appear more chocolaty
Hello Dee, I haven’t tried that yet to advise but you can do an experiment. Please share with us how it goes if you try it!
I actually ended up melting 1 cup of chocolate into the batter before I put in the flour. They ended up really well, are not to sweet and look great with white frosting! Simple trick to make them look like gingerbread cookies but easier (;
Thank you so much for sharing that with me.
Good morning from Maryland,
I have a question ( or two) for you before the grandkids and I make your cookies today…
Softened butter: I let mine sit out overnight. Do you think it will be too soft? Should I refrigerate it for a while?
We only use sprinkles, no icing. Would you recommend an egg wash on the tops of the cookies to help the sprinkles stick or just sprinkle away?
Thank you for being my go-to and trusted chef🌹
Hi Beth, you might refrigerate that butter for just a little bit since over softened butter can make the dough seem greasy and hard to roll out. Also, I would sprinkle the tops with sprinkles before baking and maybe press them down lightly.
So easy and sooo yum!
Thank you, Anna!
These were the best sugar cookies! Easy and just the right firmness. Our daughter said soft on the inside and not too hard on the outside. First batch is gone. Have to make another before Christmas 😃
I used canned frosting and tinted the vanilla to the color I wanted!
Love it! That is a good idea! I’m sure it looked amazing. Thanks for sharing that with us, Sharon!
Just a question before making these with my grandkids tomorrow, is the tablespoon of baking powder the correct amount? Every other sugar cookie recipe I have read has a teaspoon to a teaspoon and a half of baking powder. Just want to be sure! Looking forward to baking them!
That is the correct amount.
Aloha Natasha, These cookies brought back some childhood memories. The ones I remembered had an anise flavoring to them. Wondering if it was in the cookie or the icing. Any ideas?
Hi Lois, I haven’t tried that yet to advise, sorry wish I could help you more. But others might have tried that and could share with us?
How do you make the icing?
Hi Sara, We ran out of time to publish a royal icing for the cookies. I would suggest googling for a Royal Icing. A couple of varieties out there are 1 with egg whites and 1 with meringue powder (no raw egg whites). Both work well; it just depends on preference or if someone may be allergic to egg whites. You may try this frosting recipe that I have here. you can purchase an icing decorating kit with pre-made frostings in a variety of colors which makes it really easy.
Natasha, thank you for this perfect cookie recipe. They are delicious and easy to work with- I am normally challenged in this area.
You are so welcome, Jenna. It is my pleasure to be able to help provide you a perfect recipe for cookies!
Does this sugar cookie dough recipe need to be refrigerated for before using?
Hi Raelene, it is not necessary at all to refrigerate the dough with this recipe and the dough does not stick. If you have any sticking, just dust your work surface and the top of the dough or your rolling pin lightly with flour. There is plenty of butter in the recipe that helps prevent sticking.
I only have salted butter. Is that ok to use?
Hi Beverly, I have made this with unsalted only. I worry it would be too much salt. If you happen to experiment, I would love to know how you like that.
I made these last week and again today using salted butter and they turned out great! I didn’t think they tasted salty at all.
Thank you for sharing that wonderful feedback, Alli! I’m so happy to hear that!
These are the best cut out sugar cookies I have ever tried. I always make sugar cookies for Christmas to decorate with the kids. This recipe is totally foolproof. I did not chill the dough and I purposely work it and rolled it a few times to see how it does……the result was amazing, even after rolling the dough a few times my cookies kept the shape and looked perfect. Thank you Natasha!
That’s just awesome! Thank you for sharing your wonderful review!
I am making the cookies for the Christmas party tomorrow for the kids I made them before and they where so good!
That’s so great! I bet they will have so much fun with these!
I made these sugar cookies and I will have to make another batch; they were a hit! The flavor is perfect. My husband loves them and can’t believe how light they are-he can eat more at one time. lol!!!!
I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing your great review, Debra!
Hello! I am doing these cookies for Christmas, and I just wanted to say how great the tips you gave before the recipes are. They are amazing and really helpful! Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! 🙂
So great to hear that, Sofia. Thank you so much for your good comments and feedback. Happy Holidays!
When do you add the egg? When doing the wet is what I assume but it’s missed in the instructions
Hi Derek, it is in the instructions in #2 in the recipe card.
Using a stand-up or handheld mixer, beat the butter together with sugar. To the mixture add vanilla extract and egg and beat to combine.
Just got done making these cookies with my husband on my birthday. They are so tasty. Thank you for all your recipes. You make it look so easy and fun. Thanks again. Can’t wait to see what else we make.
Hello Sonja, you are so welcome. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feedback regarding this recipe. I’m glad that you liked it!
I was so excited to make the recipe but after I put all the ingredients together I noticed my baking powder was clumpy all over the dough. I should have sifted. Now I don’t know if I should bother cooking the cookies or not. Might want to mention that in the instructions. I should have known better, but I haven’t made cookies in years.
Hi Patty, baking powder doesn’t normally clump that way, and whisking the dry ingredients is adequate normally blend them together. Baking soda does however tend to clump and I do sift baking soda. Did you possibly use baking soda by mistake?
I love it! It is simple, tasty and 10 minutes makes it just perfect! After years of burning mine or not being happy with the taste I finally figured it out! THANK YOU!
Hello Martyna, you are most welcome! So great to hear that you were able to get the recipe that you loved!
I love your cookie it tastes realy good
Hi Natasha,
Do you think you can make a video for this recipe on your Youtube Channel? I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.
I really plan on making them on Christmas and I really understand better when it is a video.
Hi MG, probably not at this time but I’ll consider that for our future videos. Thanks for suggesting that.
This looks awesome. I’m sorry if I’m missing it, but where is the recipe for the icing? I’m sure it’s right under my nose, but I don’t see it. Thank you
Hi Lisa, We ran out of time to publish a royal icing for the cookies. I would suggest googling for a Royal Icing. A couple of varieties out there are 1 with egg whites and 1 with meringue powder (no raw egg whites). Both work well; it just depends on preference or if someone may be allergic to egg whites. You may try this frosting recipe that I have here.
How do you get your icing so red? I buy the gel but it never seems to get that deep bright red like yours?
Hi Krista, you can purchase an icing decorating kit with pre-made frostings in a variety of colors which makes it really easy.
Is it ok to freeze the dough to make later ?
Hi Diane, I answer that question actually in the recipe. Check out the portion, How to Freeze Sugar Cookie Dough
I absolutely love your recipes.
I was wondering if I can use almond flour instead of regular flour?
thank you and keep up the great job. your recipes are the best!!!!
Hi Claudia! I’m so happy you’re enjoying our recipes! I haven’t tested this with a gluten-free/ almond flour substitution, but I would love to know how you like that if you happen to experiment.
Hi Natasha,
I have tried many of your recipes, they have come out perfect! thank you!
Can I bake the cookies a week and a half in advance and refrigerate until ready to decorate with royal icing?
Thank you, Sam. You can check this portion in the recipe How to Freeze Sugar Cookie Dough as there are tips in there.
These cookies turned out amazing!! Kept their shape beautiful and tasted great!!
That’s just awesome, Nanci! Thank you for that wonderful review!
Hi Natasha! I stumbled upon this recipe awhile ago and it has become my go to! I am selling gift baskets with baking theme. I wanted to include my favourite sugar cookie recipe. Would I be able to include your recipe if it is credited to you and your site as the source?
Hi Ashley, I don’t see any problem with that since you’re going to be making it just following the recipe. Crediting us would be awesome!
Can the dough be frozen? Sorry if it was already answered in comments.
Hi Rimma, I answer that question actually in the recipe. Check out the portion, How to Freeze Sugar Cookie Dough
I made these sugar cookies this afternoon, and I am very happy with how they turned out. These have a nice chew to them and are not dry. I’m always skeptical of sugar cookies, as I find they rarely come out the way I want them too. These were great, thanks again for the great recipe!
Hello Nadia, that makes me happy! Thank you for your awesome feedback, I’m glad you enjoyed these cookies.
Hi Natasha,I’m from SriLanka love all your receipes would like to know how to make hard glazed icing for the cookies.Sana
Thank you so much for sharing that with me & thank you for that suggestion!
Yes, me too!
This was her answer to the same question above:
We ran out of time to publish a royal icing for the cookies. I would suggest googling for a Royal Icing. A couple of varieties out there are 1 with egg whites and 1 with meringue powder (no raw egg whites). Both work well; it just depends on preference or if someone may be allergic to egg whites.
Hi natasha
I love you recipes, I just wanted to know if you can give me a recipe to make my own gingerhouse for Christmas please.
Thank you, Chanelle. I don’t have a recipe for that yet but thanks for your suggestion. I’ll take note of that for my future recipes and videos.
Hi!
I am a big fan of your recipes and have made many of them.
Could you please post how to make the icing for the sugar cookies?
Thank you!
Jyothi
Thank you, Jyothi. We ran out of time to publish a royal icing for the cookies. I would suggest googling for a Royal Icing. A couple of varieties out there are 1 with egg whites and 1 with meringue powder (no raw egg whites). Both work well; it just depends on preference or if someone may be allergic to egg whites. You may try this frosting recipe that I have here.
Thank you so much. I will try the buttercream link you mentioned.
Looking forward to seeing more recipes from you.
You’re welcome!
I made cookies based on this recipe and it was amazing. Everyone loved it! Thank you
That’s so great to hear! Thank you for sharing that with us.
No salt in this recipe?
Hi Kim, that’s right, no salt for this recipe.
I absolutely love your recipes and I wish I could just print them as I used to do with other recipes in the past. Saves time in writing and its neat so I can just pop in a notebook. But now I can’t look through a recipe without being slammed with bloody ads!!!! I hate ads and I feel like they are everywhere. Don’t you own this site to where they can be eliminated! Ads dont make me want to buy what they offer. They make me not want to view the recipes anymore therefore not make what looks good. It’s inconvenient to take a screen shot, edit, take another screen shot and edit again until I have the full recipe that now I have 2-4 pages. Not worth the trouble.
That’s so great! It sounds like you have a new favorite!
Hi Natashia !
I am making these for the kiddos at church/community to decorate. I will paint some of them with food coloring so the little ones can decorate with success. Thanks Ever So for what you do
Yum! That sounds amazing Jami!
Hi, after cutting out the shapes, should it be chilled before baking? I have heard that chilling the dough is integral to sugar cookies. Thanks in advance
Hi Sarah, this recipe doesn’t’ require any chilling!
Thank you so much 🙂
You’re welcome, Sarah! Happy Thanksgiving!
Is the baking powder 1 T correct? Love all your turorials. So much fun while we’re learning!
1 Tbsp baking powder
Dear Natasha please may have your creamy pumpkin pie recipe my grandsons partner has a birthday Sunday she is here in NZ cant see her family in the States Covid!! And pumpkin is her favorite..
Hello Jill, sure. Here is my Pumpkin Pie recipe. Enjoy and I hope you love it!
I hate when sometimes people will give a recepie 5 stars but still adda nd subtract the ingredients. So, Now I think I found the best so far. I followed receipe exactly as it was. Cookies turned out amazing. I however did use cookie press thingamigiggy. Thank you Natasha . All the best !!
You’re welcome! I’m so happy you enjoyed this recipe!
Do you have a royal icing recipe that is as glossy as the one on these cookies?
Hi Alicia, thank you for that suggestion. We ran out of time to publish a royal icing for the cookies. I would suggest googling for a Royal Icing. A couple of varieties out there are 1 with egg whites and 1 with meringue powder (no raw egg whites). Both work well; it just depends on preference or if someone may be allergic to egg whites.
No salt?!? Surely salt is needed for flavor!?
Hi Karyn, that’s right! No salt for this recipe!
Hi Natasha! will you please share butter cookies recipe…….Thankyou
You’re welcome Maryam!! I’m so happy you enjoyed this recipe!
Hi Natasha…very excited to try baking sugar cookies for the first time. My question is, will this cookie dough work in a cookie press? Thanks so much in advance! Patty
Hi Patty, to be honest, I haven’t tested this in a cookie press to advise. If you do experiment please let us know how you like that.
Also I found your youtube channel and was like: wait….WHAT. You should make a video on this recipe.
Thank you for that suggestion Lucca.
I LOVE this recipe I wish I could rate 10/5, I would like your permission to sell these, since it’s your recipe. Please get back to me soon :D. Thank you!
Hi Lucca, if you want to bake them and sell them you are free to do so. The only thing I do not allow is for my printed recipe to sold or reproduced in a cookbook or other publication without permission.
I wasn’t planning on it . Thank you!
Hi Natasha!
love love love your recipes all the time!
I want to make these cookies atleast a week and a half before the actual party. Can I make them a week ahead and refrigerate? without royal icing?
Hi Sam, yes that will work great to make the dough ahead and refrigerate it. Just make sure it reaches room temperature before you shape your cookies and bake them.
Hello Natasha,
Thank you for sharing all your recipes!
I would like to know how to make royal icing in order to decorate the sugar cookies.
Pretty please!!!
Hi Andrea, thank you for that suggestion. We ran out of time to publish a royal icing for the cookies. I would suggest googling for a Royal Icing. There are a couple of varieties out there: 1 with egg whites and 1 with meringue powder (no raw egg whites). Both work well, just depends on preference or if someone may be allergic to egg whites.
Can I use country crock spread instead of butter? I ran out of butter!
Hello Heather, I haven’t really tried using that substitute yet to advise. Please share with us how it goes if you do an experiment.
Recipe looks great! Are these the soft or the harder type of sugar cookie recipe? I prefer a crisp bite
Hi Deborah, if you cook them longer, they will become more crisp.
Great and perfect Christmas biscuits!
Really happy with this simple recipe.
I’m so glad you enjoyed that Irene!
Hey Natasha !
I am not using frosting only colored crystal sugar. When would I put that on. Thanks
Hi Pamela, I haven’t tried that, but you might try this method from Land O-Lakes for adding crystal sugar to cookies.
Amazing recipe!!!! Especially at a time when you are stuck with kids! So easy to prepare, and so yummy!!!! Thank you sooo much !!
You’re welcome, Mona! I’m so glad you and your family are enjoying this recipe.
Ohhhhh Natasha! Bless you for this recipe! It was a God send to me today! My usual recipe requires 2 hours of chilling and when I was surprised with a bunch of kids who wanted to make sugar cookies at 2pm this afternoon I knew I literally had no time for that! Then I remembered your post from the other day! It was a ray of sun for me because you said ” no chilling” required! It is amazing! And though I love my childhood Recipe…..this was soooooo much quicker, easier, and just as Delicious! I can’t thank you enough! You helped me give all my kidlets a great cookie experience! Merry Christmas and Thanks again! P.s. I’d post photos but can’t seem to find the option! Hahahaha
Hi Sharlene, I’m so happy you loved the sugar cookies and that makes me smile big knowing you got to enjoy your cookies sooner! Thank you for the amazing review. I don’t have a way to post a picture here but if you would like to post it on our private Facebook group that would be awesome or if you share it on your social media account, please tag me @natashaskitchen and #natashaskitchen so I can find it!
I’m definitely gonna make some Christmas cookies this year with my daughter. I’m wondering do you have to flour your cookie cutters before using them? I’ve had my cookie cutters for a long time but have never used them.
I have not had to do that with this recipe but it may help if your dough is too sticky.
I can’t wait for Christmas lm going to make it tomorrow. Thanks
You’re welcome! I hope you love this recipe!
Hey Natasha! I’ve seen other recipes where the cool the dough in the fridge for a couple hours before rolling it out so it’s not sticky, is there a reason why this recipe doesn’t require the dough to be refrigerated?
Hi Yana, it is not necessary at all to refrigerate the dough with this recipe and the dough does not stick. If you have any sticking, just dust your work surface and the top of the dough or your rolling pin lightly with flour. There is plenty of butter in the recipe that helps prevent sticking.
Can this dough be refrigerated still? Or will they not turn out as good?
Hi Inna, yes that will work great to make the dough ahead and refrigerate it. Just make sure it reaches room temperature before you shape your cookies and bake them.
Natasha, thank you for these great tips! What is the best recipe for Royal Icing for decorating the cookies?
🌲 Rose
Hi Rose, we ran out of time to publish a royal icing for the cookies. I’m hoping to have one up around Valentines day. I know it doesn’t help for Christmas! I would suggest googling for a Royal Icing. There are a couple of varieties out there: 1 with egg whites and 1 with meringue powder (no raw egg whites). Both work well, just depends on preference or if someone may be allergic to egg whites.
Hi. Do you put cookies in fridge before baking? So many recipes call for this. Thanks!!
Hi Cheryl, that is one of the things I love so much about this recipe – it is unnecessary to refrigerate the dough. I just baked up a batch yesterday and they came out perfect without needing to be refrigerated before baking.
We love making sugar cookies this time of year. Thanks for the detailed instructions and pictures. This recipe was easy to make! Happy holidays!
Hi Erin, I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed the recipe! Thank you for sharing that with me and Merry Christmas!!
I was so excited when I found this recipe this morning because I have all of the ingredients! Mine didn’t come out as pretty as yours but they were amazing! Thank you!
I love when that happens! That’s so great! Thank you for that awesome review, Lauren!
These cookies are so perfect! Sugar cookies are a must for Christmas and love this recipe.
Thank you Erin for your wonderful review! I’m so glad you love the cookies. I agree they are such a sweet and memorable Christmas tradition.
Can you share what frosting you used?
Hi Lana, There’s a link to the one that was used to make these cookies at the bottom of the recipe post. We didn’t have time to post a homemade one this year, but it is definitely on my list!
Is it just me, or is there no link?
Can’t find it.
Hi Olya, sorry that wasn’t more clear in the post. I’ll add an extra link above to make it easier to find, but it is currently in the decorating section. Here is the link to the icing decorating kit.
I couldn’t find the link for the icing, that was used. Can you please help? Thank you!
Hi Nataliya, the link can be found in the decorating section towards the bottom of the post. Here is the icing decorating set that was used from Amazon.