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Forget the crumbly, tasteless grocery store version. These homemade frosted sugar cookies are crisp and buttery around the outside and chewy in the middle. They’re everything a sugar cookie should be.

Forget the crumbly, tasteless grocery store version. These homemade frosted sugar cookies are crisp and buttery around the outside and chewy in the middle. They're everything a sugar cookie should be.

These cookies. These cookies.


Let’s be real for a second. Is there anything tastier than a well-made sugar cookie? I’m not talking about those crumbly, under-baked messes you buy from the “bakery” section of the grocery store. I’m talking about the real thing. The homemade version, with the slightly crunchy, buttery outside and the chewy, firm inside.

Every year I take my FBLA students to a district conference, where they compete in various business-related events. It isn’t the competition that they’re most excited about, though. It’s not the pizza we have for lunch, the scholarship opportunities, or even the day away from school that they most look forward to.

No, the thing my students spend all year talking about is these cookies. Because they’re that good, that buzz-worthy. If you think store-bought sugar cookies are “almost as good” as homemade, you owe it to yourself to make these and prove you wrong.

Forget the crumbly, tasteless grocery store version. These homemade frosted sugar cookies are crisp and buttery around the outside and chewy in the middle. They're everything a sugar cookie should be.

 

Frosted Sugar Cookies
cookie recipe adapted slightly from here, frosting recipe adapted slightly from here

for the cookies
1 1/4 cups butter, room temperature
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
5 cups flour
1 tsp salt
4 tsp baking powder

for the frosting
3 cups powdered sugar
1 cup butter, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla
4 tsp whole milk or cream

Using a stand or hand mixer, cream together butter and sugar. Add in the vanilla, eggs, and milk and mix until well combined. Add the flour, salt, and baking powder and mix just until everything comes together.

Form dough into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate until firm, about an hour.

On a generously floured surface, roll dough out to 1/4 inch thickness, cut cookie shapes with cookie cutters, and bake at 350 degrees for 9-11 minutes.

Using a stand or hand mixer, cream together butter and powdered sugar until they’re thick and well-mixed, about a minute. Add vanilla and milk or cream and mix on medium-high for about another minute.

Cool cookies completely before frosting.

What’s your favorite sugar cookie occasion?

Want to try more homemade favorites? Try these surprisingly simple and stunningly scrumptious peanut butter cup bars or this rich and fudgy mug brownie.

Forget the crumbly, tasteless grocery store version. These homemade frosted sugar cookies are crisp and buttery around the outside and chewy in the middle. They're everything a sugar cookie should be.

Comments

  3. I’m always on the lookout for a good sugar cookie recipe and accompanying icing suggestion. These look amazing! I am putting them on the list for my and Little to make next week!

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  6. I don’t think I’d be able to quit talking about those sugar cookies either. I actually like mine a little crisp though. I believe every day is appropriate for sugar cookies.
    Just maybe you don’t frost them on every day. KWIM?

    • I always eat a cookie or two fresh from the oven, without frosting, and I think you’re on to something. They’re pretty darn good!

  8. I LOVE frosted sugar cookies! I really enjoy red velvet the best! This recipe looks good, I will try it out next time I make homemade sugar cookies! Thanks for sharing!

  11. Oh, I did NOT need to see this, lol. These cookies are my nemesis when I pass them in the bakery section, so to have a recipe to make themselves (which means they’d be EVEN better!) is not something I needed to discover, lol. So…yep…going on my must bake soon list! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

    • My trick is to only bake the treats that I have the hardest time resisting when I can give most of them away. Then I view my role as that of the vital taste tester 😉 Let me know what you think of them!

  12. Oh my these look tasty and just like those store bought ones that look so delicious but these look REAL! We have a get together coming up and these are on my list to make now! Thank you for sharing this!!

  14. Sugar cookies are one of my niece and nephews favorite cookies to make. They have so much fun adding sprinkles. I will have to try this frosted version at some point. 🙂

    • Sprinkles make everything more fun! Let me know what you think of the recipe!