I love sugar cookies that are crisp on the outside and very chewy on the inside. Perfect for decorating! Sugar cookies are a buttery classic that makes a delicious anytime treat. This recipe can easily be made for your enjoyment.
Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
3/4 cup softened unsalted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla
Food coloring (3 colors of your choice)
Buttercream icing
Sprinkles to decorate
Directions
In a medium-sized bowl, prepare your dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, and salt. Whisk until the ingredients are mixed well with one another and set aside.
In another medium-sized bowl, using a handheld mixer (or stand-alone, if you have one) start beating your softened butter. Gradually add sugar and then the egg until you reach a creamy consistency. Add your vanilla.
On medium speed, continue mixing your wet ingredients and gradually add your dry ingredients, one third at a time.
Separate the dough so that you have one batch of your larger cookies, another batch for the medium-sized ones, and finally, the smallest batch of the smallest-sized cookies. Put a drop of food coloring into each third and knead in the color until you reach your desired shade. I prefer using gel food coloring since you need less to obtain a brighter color.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Wrap each ball of dough separately in clear-wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Prepare a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Once the dough is done chilling, prepare your workstation for rolling out your cookies. Your countertop should be sprinkled with flour to avoid sticking. Roll each ball of dough until it is ¼ of an inch thick. Cut out shapes for your large, medium, and small cookies. Bake in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes and let cool completely.
Once cooled, stack your cookies using your favorite buttercream icing. I decided to top off the top cookie with buttercream and decorated with some colorful sprinkles.
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Yummy recipe! I will have to try these cookies!!
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Soft and crunchy…YUM!!!
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Sugar are so fun and you can do a ton with them. Love adding the colors and buttercream frosting is a favorite.
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Yummmm! Thank you for sharing!
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I love sweets. I can’t wait to give this a try!
– Elise
http://www.prettyandfun.com
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I never seen sugar cookies like yours! Perfect project for my niece & nephew. Thank you for sharing.
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Yum! Sugar cookies are my favorite!
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These look delicious! I need to make these for sure.
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Sugar cookies. Yum! I love decorating them with my son. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
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I think i might use this for my son’s birthday! Thank you so much!!
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Yum! I love all of cookies
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Yum! These look like they are tasty!
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i love sugar cookies and i am with you, crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside! so so delicious!
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These are so fun and look delicious! I will definitely have to make them.
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These look delicious! How fun to color them!
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I love sugar cookies that are hard on the outside and soft in the middle! Making these asap!
xo Ashley
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I’ve never been good at making sugar cookies, so I’ll have to try this recipe! It looks delish, thank you for sharing!
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You had me at “sugar cookies’! Sounds fabulous!
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You’re making me want to go out and buy a sugar cookie! Hahaha
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sugar cookies are my fav!!! Thanks for this!
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I am a diehard sugar cookie fan!
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I like mine the same way, I will def have to try these!
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I love the colours! I will need to try these.
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Looks so yummy! I love super cookies.
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you made me hungry with the easy receipe I am going to make thanks
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These look positively delicious and perfect! I don’t know how you bake so perfectly. I try…but it doesn’t go that well. Haha. Really look yummy, I’m going to try!
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These are beautiful and sound delicious! I’ll have to give them a try!
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These look so delicious! I’m bookmarking so I can make these soon. Thank you for sharing. (thank you grandma!)
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I love a good sugar cookie, so I’m excited to try these. I never though of stacking a cookie either- love that!
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Your cookies are so pretty! I can’t wait to try your recipe….yum!
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Yum! I love when sugar cookies are crunchy on the outside and chewy inside too :). Thanks for the step-by-step directions! I will have to try these for sure!!
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Those are so cute and look delicious!
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These are so cute! My daughters love to have little tea parties and these would be perfect for that!
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Yum!!
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Nice, Easy and interesting tips. Thanks for sharing it here.
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You’re welcome
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Great post! Been reading a lot of info on sugar cookies recipe recently. Thanks for the info!
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What an excellent recipe! thanks for sharing
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