Easy Recipes For Sugar Cookies

These easy no-spread sugar cookies are great for cutouts and decorating with icing, they're perfectly sweet, and totally delicious. Unlike other sugar cookies that become a gloopy mess at room temperature this dough is easy to work with and needs minimal chilling. 

You’re going to fall in love with this sugar cookie recipe. It’s SO much easier to cut shapes out with and when you bake them the cookies will not spread. Instead of rounded pillows that only slightly resemble the shape you cut them into, you’ll have super-sharp edged cookies PERFECT for decorating with Royal Icing or Sugar Cookie Icing. For another holiday cookie, try my ginger snap cookie recipe!

6. Put the dough in a plastic bag, flatten it together, then chill it in the refrigerator so it firms up. Once the dough is chilled, place it on a rolling mat, sprinkle with flour and roll out with a rolling pin. Move the dough around to prevent it from sticking. Use circular cookie cutters to cut out your cookies. Take away extra scraps to re-roll for more cookies. Place them on non-stick cookie sheets and bake at 375F for 12 minutes. Once they are done allow them to cool on the cookie sheets before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.

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Adding that 1/3 cup of corn starch really changes the dough. You’ll notice it handles better at room temperature than other cookie doughs and really stays together instead of getting stuck to your fingers or the work surface.

I actually love using buttercream to decorate sugar cookies but you can dip them in chocolate, add a glaze, use your favorite sugar, or of course use royal icing! Here are my favorite frosting recipes to use on sugar cookies:

Using corn starch helps but the best way to prevent cookie dough from sticking is to roll out the dough between two layers of plastic wrap. This way there’s no fuss and ZERO chance of sticking. It’s always a good idea to flour your work surface well and move the dough often. I like to work on a pastry mat which can be lifted up and even transferred into the refrigerator.

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Various brands of butter add different amounts of salt to their product. Using unsalted butter helps to control the amount of salt in a recipe and give people a uniform result no matter where they live. This is also why you’ll see recipes call for kosher salt. Different types of salt have smaller and larger grains; the smaller the grain, the more salt each teaspoon will hold. Specifying kosher salt just calls for a standard grain size. All this being said you can usually use salted butter and just reduce or eliminate the added salt in a recipe.

If you’ve tried this sugar cookie recipe then don’t forget to leave a rating and let me know how you got on in the comments below, I love hearing from you!

This no-spread sugar cookie recipe is perfect for cutouts and totally delicious. Best of all the dough is easy to work with and needs minimal chilling.

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I often use 1/2 cup of corn starch for this recipe as if gives you LASER-sharp edges but recently reduced it to a 1/3 cup. This gives a slightly softer cookie while still retaining almost all of the shape during baking. If you want a really soft cookie just add a 1/4 cup and you cookie dough will still be pretty manageable.

Serving: 28 g | Calories: 192 kcal | Carbohydrates: 27 g | Protein: 3 g | Fat: 8 g | Saturated Fat: 5 g | Cholesterol: 34 mg | Sodium: 80 mg | Potassium: 30 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 8 g | Vitamin A: 255 IU | Calcium: 7 mg | Iron: 1 mgQuick and easy sugar cookies made with only 3 pantry ingredients and no egg! So simple and foolproof, you can whip up this sugar cookie recipe anytime. Sweet, buttery, and delicious!

Next to pies and pudding, cookies are a complete weakness of mine. Admittedly, I much prefer my cookies soft, either gooey or with goodies tucked throughout, as opposed to a crunchy cookie. The one exception is a sugar cookie – I enjoy those soft or crunchy, iced or plain. But I just simply never have the time or patience to make them.

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Typically with sugar cookies, the dough needs to be divided, chilled for several hours, then rolled out, shaped, the scraps re-rolled, etc. Worth it for a perfect sugar cookie…I guess? What if I told you that you could have completely fantastic sugar cookies using only 3 ingredients and in less than an hour? Pretty exciting, right?!

I’m so wild about this easy sugar cookie recipe, I may never make traditional ones again. In fact, these have been my go-to for the last couple of years. They’re infinitely easier and taste, well, just like a crunchy sugar cookie, and similar to shortbread.

All you need is unsalted butter, granulated sugar, and flour. (A touch of vanilla added to the dough and finished with some sprinkles make them even better, but these two ingredients are not necessary to make this sugar cookie recipe.)

Sugar Cookies Recipe: How To Make It

It’s almost criminal how easy these cookies are to make, but nobody is getting arrested! HA. There are only 4 really simple steps. Here’s a brief summary (scroll down for the detailed, complete printable recipe.)

Can this recipe be used for cut-out cookies? Unfortunately, no. Since the recipe doesn’t include any eggs, the dough doesn’t bind well enough and the cookies could end up crumbling when you use a cookie cutter.

Can these be frosted? Yes, you can definitely frost these with royal icing or drizzle a simple icing on top. Whisk together some powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla until you get the desired consistency. Drizzle and allow to set.

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How many calories in a sugar cookie? One of these sugar cookies is only 90 calories. Great with a cup of coffee.

Can you freeze sugar cookies? If you want to freeze these, I recommend forming the dough balls and freezing those. Thaw in the fridge overnight, then roll in the sugar and bake as directed. The dough can be frozen up to 2 months.

These easy sugar cookies are a great recipe for a novice baker to try out, or if you’ve got young kids at home and want to introduce them to baking. No fuss, few ingredients, and comes together in minutes!

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This recipe renders a slightly crunchier sugar cookie, but they should not be dry or crumbly. If they are too dry, make sure you  didn’t 1) use too much flour 2) make the balls of dough too small 3) flatten them too much, 4) baked them at 350 instead of 325, or 5) baked them too long.

For recipe tips, questions, and storage, please refer to the full article. And watch the video, which is a great visual for how to roll and flatten the cookies.

Sugar Cookies Without Butter {with Vegetable Oil}

Calories: 90 kcal | Carbohydrates: 10 g | Protein: 1 g | Fat: 5 g | Saturated Fat: 3 g | Cholesterol: 14 mg | Sodium: 1 mg | Potassium: 9 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 4 g | Vitamin A: 167 IU | Calcium: 3 mg | Iron: 1 mg

Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and any changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are very important to you, I would recommend calculating them yourself.

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