Ultimate Sugar cookie recipe for soft and chewy cookies that are perfect for decorating and adding icing. It’s so easy to learn how to make sugar cookies with this simple and best recipe that your ultimate Christmas cookies are just around the corner. Printable recipe and cookie images below.
Its nearly January and you have probably baked your little hands and heart out the past month or two. Since November every member of my family has been subjected to new recipes, tons of food, and tons of baked goods- and why not? Winter is the perfect time to have some fun in the kitchen and one of the most friendly recipes (and desserts) someone can whip up quickly are cookies! And when it comes to cookiedom, sugar cookies reign supreme.
They are the perfect blend of sugar with at touch of awesome and with a blank space on top for total decoration power, how can you say no?
No matter if you are whipping up a batch for your personal kitchen, getting ready to bake for sale or party, or getting ready to let your kids have some holiday decorating fun, this recipe is sure to please! And if sugar cookies are not your thing, try out my Grinch Cookies, copycat lofthouse cookies, or even these red velvet crinkle cookies that taste like cake!
Perfectly chewy but totally soft, this is a fantastic Chewy Sugar Cookie Recipe that will get you in and out of the kitchen in no time.
Sugar Cookie Recipe
This super simple and perfectly easy sugar cookie recipe is THE recipe for icing your cookies during every holiday season. Not too hard and not too soft, they balance out the perfect sugary cookie with a slight satisfying chewy bite.
- 1 cup Country Crock® Spread
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
How to make Sugar Cookies
Preheat oven to 375°. Beat Country Crock® Spread with sugar in large bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Beat in egg and vanilla, scraping sides occasionally, until blended.
Beat in flour, baking powder and salt.
Shape dough into balls of about 2 tablespoons.
Arrange 3 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
Press balls into 2-1/2-inch circles using the bottom of a glass lightly coated in flour.
Bake 14 minutes or until edges are golden.
Cool 2 minutes on wire rack; remove from sheets and cool completely.
Decorate if desired.
Sugar Cookie Recipe for Soft and Chewy Cookies perfect for frosting, enjoy this easy sugar cookie recipe and how simple it really is!
- 1 cup Country Crock® Spread
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- Preheat oven to 375°. Beat Country Crock® Spread with sugar in large bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Beat in egg and vanilla, scraping sides occasionally, until blended. Beat in flour, baking powder and salt.
- Shape dough into balls of about 2 tablespoons. Arrange 3 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
Press balls into 2-1/2-inch circles.
- Bake 14 minutes or until edges are golden.
Cool 2 minutes on wire rack; remove from sheets and cool completely. Decorate if desired.
Billie says
My husband loves soft sugar cookies with frosting, but I love the chewy kind.
Brandy says
I am all about a chewy sugar cookie recipe, all too often mine come out way too hard. I will give this recipe a try against the one I normally use, it’s always the kind of cookies I have ingredients on hand for!