It’s ok, it’s ok, I know.
I have been there. When I was first married I did not even know how to turn on the oven. But a little youtube and hunger go a long way in the teaching department.
So, in honor of everyone out there who burns toast and forgets at add cheese to lasagna and says that scrambled eggs are their favorite only because that’s the only way they can make them… this is for you.
I want YOU to shine this holiday season.
I am going to share my favorite sugar cookie recipes of all time. I have made lots. I know what works and trust me on this one, this is by far the best sugar cookie recipe ever.
If you make this, people will be asking you for your recipe and they will be trying to sneak just one more.
I will also share my no fail sugar cookie icing recipe.
BONUS: I am also going to give you a secret tip in how to make beautifully decorated cookies.
Now… would you like to do this?
or this?
Its easy.
(please say the next sentence in your head without pausing just to get the full effect) Really and truly I cannot tell a lie I promise you from the bottom of my heart you can do this and you can do this well it really is easy.
Its just dots.
Get a zip lock bag, put some icing into it, cut off the tiniest tip possible from the corner of the bag and just put some dots on your cookie.
Do any design you want… I promise it will look good. Do a cross or a tree or a word or just outline the cookie in dots.
That is one of my favorite tricks! Dots. Lots and lots of dots.
Find more cookie ideas or inspiration!
Go forth and conquer!
Amazing Sugar Cookies and Sugar Cookie Glaze
Ingredients
Sugar Cookies
- 1 -½ cups Unsalted Butter
- 2 cups Granulated Sugar
- 2 whole Eggs
- 2 Egg Yolks
- 4 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 2 teaspoons Almond Extract
- 4 cups All-purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
Sugar Cookie Glaze
- 1 cup Confectioners Sugar
- 1-3 tablespoons milk
- 1 drop fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon corn syrup
Instructions
- In a mixer, beat butter and sugar until well combined, about 2 minutes.
- Add in 2 eggs and 2 egg yolks and mix until combined.
- Add in vanilla and almond extract; mix until combined.
- In a separate bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking powder. Slowly (about a cup at a time) add flour to butter mixture and combine.
- Mix ingredients until they are combined, if you over-mix this dough it can get tough.
- Put dough in some Saran wrap and refrigerate for at least one hour, up to overnight.
- When you are ready to bake, heat oven to 350 degrees. Roll dough out (this can take some time as the dough is stiff), cut out cookies, and bake for 6-8 minutes. Some readers have also suggested chilling the cut out cookie dough before baking.
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I’m SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited to try this recipe. Your cookies always look BEAUTIFUL and DELICIOUS.
Thanks so much!!!!
I will have to try the frosting recipe! Your icing always is so beautiful.
I have a sugar cookie one that involves sourcream-they are the softest yummiest cookies of all time…and they stay yummy soft for days! I think some people like their sugar cookies crunchy, and that is fine too!
i needed that frosting tip. the girls and i just made your cookies today and i need to still frost them. actually i mixed them on Sunday and today was the first day i was able to bake them! Soooooo, we cut them in snowmen, trees, reindeer, and squares. ooooh, i’m so excited! thanks for the frosting idea. i SOOOOO Needed it!
now it’s on to get ready for my work’s christmas party.!
These look amazing! And you are so encouraging, you make me want to try it! Thanks.
It all sounds nice and neat and easy. I could mess it up…of course, I don’t have to worry about it because of the no oven thing. I’m glad God put folks like you on earth so that folks like me can enjoy cookies! lol
~M
Awesome! Thanks for your recipe! I am so going to try these on Monday! Hoping and hoping and hoping they turn out as cute as yours!
P.S. Sorry I don’t know how to reply to comments on my blog…I totally agree with reading Piper’s things! Cody sends me ones that are really applicable for me and then I read them slowly and outloud…I know, how remedial! It works though and slowly those good Biblical principles are sinking into this thick noggin! Thanks for commenting! You’re so sweet!
You are a gift from God, dear Internet friend! I have been PRAYING–well, maybe not praying but definitely hoping–for a tried-and-true sugar cookie recipe to make with my oodles of kids.
So thank you thank you THANK YOU. You’ve made my day and–most assuredly–our Christmas. 🙂
PS. I found your blog after being given a heads-up from Nancy at Be Not Afraid. Surprise! I am a fellow Minnesotan originally from the great state of North Dakota who shares your love of Fargo.
(The city, that is. Not the movie.)
I have not ever made anything like that Jan!! I will have to see what I can come up with… but Audrey birthday is on the 19th so I might be busy with preparation and cake and stuff!! (But man you know I love a cookie challenge!) 🙂
I would try and add some more milk Dea! I do the same thing… my hands kill after a few minutes… so I just have to go back and add more milk. 🙂