Hello everyone! I sure hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Whether you met up with friends and loved ones or stayed at home snug in your jammies, I hope you found some moments of joy.
For myself, I think I spent three days in the kitchen. Phew. That was exhausting. But I had a heap of yummy treats. I wanted to share one of my favorites, which are the softest, most flavorful sugar cookies I’ve ever eaten in my life. They are also pretty much foolproof. Just my kind of recipe!
Here’s what they look like, decorated with sugar sprinkles, courtesy of my youngest son.
Super Soft Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (omit if using salted butter)
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 6 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Using an electric hand mixer or a stand mixer, beat the butter and sugar until well blended. Add cream cheese and vanilla; mix.
- Reduce speed to low and slowly add in dry ingredients. Beat just until incorporated and the dough starts to come together.
- Preheat the oven to 350º F
- Either scoop cookie dough into small balls, flatten slightly and bake, or else roll out and cut with cookie cutters into shapes and place on baking sheets, about a half inch apart.
- Bake for 10 to 13 minutes or until the cookies are just beginning to turn brown around the edges. Remove from the oven and let sit on baking sheets for 5 minutes.
- Decorate as desired.
And that is it, my friends! So simple, so tasty! If you try it, I hope you’ll enjoy them.
Sarah is wife to an amazing teacher and mom to two boys who are growing up just a little too fast. She spends her days working and writing in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
They sound delicious and seem easy!
Merry Christmas!
Thank you for the recipe. They would definitely be fun to make with kids.
I’d like to try them. Thanks
They sound wonderful. I just do not bake from scratch anymore. Those days are long gone for me. Hoping and praying you have a blessed week and weekend. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I am much looking forward to the next 4 years.
Thank you for sharing your cookie recipe, May you and your family have a Happy and Blessed New Year.
These look yummy! ?just the kind of sugar cookies I was looking for! I like the aoft ones.
My family uses buttermilk but we always have an extra pint left and no one drinks it so we either throw it away or make another double batch and it makes a ton of cookies. I’m going to see about this recipe! Thanks!