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Super Soft Sugar Cookies

February 21, 2017 by Janel 21 Comments

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The softest sugar cookie recipe you’ll ever find. These super soft sugar cookies are worth all the effort of mixing, rolling, cutting, baking, and frosting! 

The softest sugar cookie recipe you'll ever find. These super soft sugar cookies are worth all the effort of mixing, rolling, cutting, baking, and frosting!

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Super Soft Sugar Cookies

My family had a tradition every year, baking my grandma’s soft sugar cookies recipe together.

It was without fail my entire childhood and even into my boys childhood memories.

The softest sugar cookie recipe you'll ever find. These super soft sugar cookies are worth all the effort of mixing, rolling, cutting, baking, and frosting!

This past Christmas we moved across the country and we knew it just wouldn’t quite be Christmas without our favorite Christmas cookies and those treasured memories we share!

The softest sugar cookie recipe you'll ever find. These super soft sugar cookies are worth all the effort of mixing, rolling, cutting, baking, and frosting!

It’s all the mixing and flour.

The rolling and snitching some dough to snack on.

The cutting and the frosting.

Sweet and so easy, this 4-ingredient powdered sugar frosting is my favorite! A go-to recipe for frosting soft sugar cookies, graham crackers, or cake.

And of course, the reward at the end. The best soft sugar cookies ever!

The are thick, and soft, and so, so, good!

The softest sugar cookie recipe you'll ever find. These super soft sugar cookies are worth all the effort of mixing, rolling, cutting, baking, and frosting!

My grandma’s secret recipe always included a special ingredient I’ve never seen in another sugar cookie recipe, that is the key to this recipe’s yummy taste!

The softest sugar cookie recipe you'll ever find. These super soft sugar cookies are worth all the effort of mixing, rolling, cutting, baking, and frosting!

Just a dash, a tiny hint, of lemon!

It may sound weird, but trust me when I say it makes both the dough and the cookies so incredible!

Then, don’t forget to lather them in our super easy 4-Ingredient Powdered Sugar Frosting!

The softest sugar cookie recipe you'll ever find. These super soft sugar cookies are worth all the effort of mixing, rolling, cutting, baking, and frosting!

Super Soft Sugar Cookies

Yield: 2 dozen cookies

Ingredients

  • 2 eggs
  • 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp lemon extract
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 3-4 cups flour
  • Powdered Sugar Frosting (click over for the recipe)

Instructions

  1. Cream together the butter and sugar until well combined. Beat eggs into the mixture. 
  2. Add milk, baking soda, vanilla, lemon extract, and salt. Blend until well combined. 
  3. Add 3 cups of flour, mixing in one cup at a time until blended. 
  4. Slowly add one additional cup of flour, only if needed.. You'll want your dough to be slightly sticky but form a solid dough. 
  5. Transfer dough to the fridge and allow to chill for an hour and a half or overnight. 
  6. Lightly flour your surface and roll out the dough to 1/8" thick (not too thick, not too thin).
  7. Cut our shapes with cookie cutters and placed cut dough onto a baking sheet. 
  8. Bake 8-10 minutes at 350*F. Watch for the cookies to just start to turn golden. If you cook them too long, they will not be soft. 
  9. Frost with our Powdered Sugar Frosting recipe and store in an air-tight container. 
© Janel
Category: Cookies / Bars
I originally shared my Grandma’s recipe here first: Best Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe

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The softest sugar cookie recipe you'll ever find. These super soft sugar cookies are worth all the effort of mixing, rolling, cutting, baking, and frosting!

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Filed Under: Cookies / Bars Tagged With: christmas, cookies, recipe

About Janel

I'm a sweets addict that enjoys eating yummy treats and good food! I'm also the mom of five beautiful boys from 4-12.

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Comments

  1. Kristi

    March 6, 2017 at 7:22 pm

    I love soft sugar cookies. When my Mom used to make them it seemed like half the time they were hard. Will pin this and give me a try. I bet it’s the secret ingredient that makes em soft!

    Reply
  2. Jennifer

    March 7, 2017 at 5:20 am

    Those cookies look so good! Frosted sugar cookies are my all time favorite, so I can’t wait to make these.

    Reply
  3. Becky

    March 7, 2017 at 8:26 am

    I love sugar cookies. I can’t wait to try out your recipe! Your cookies look really yummy!

    Reply
  4. Audrey McClelland

    March 7, 2017 at 10:26 am

    I love sugar cookies. They are my absolute favorite cookie in the world, and they’re even better with frosting! Om nom nom.

    Reply
  5. Scott

    March 8, 2017 at 11:17 am

    Sugar cookies are one thing I let everyone else make. Mine never turn out right and this way I can spend more time eating them than making them!

    Reply
    • Mary

      February 14, 2018 at 1:01 pm

      Tried this recipe used 3 cups of flour. Omitted lemon extract. Added 1/4 teaspoon baking powder. Rolled and cut them out in powdered sugar. Yummy. They turned out great.

      Reply
  6. Tracy

    September 17, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    Do they have a lemon taste?

    Reply
    • Janel

      September 20, 2017 at 7:37 pm

      Just a small hint of lemon! So good!

      Reply
  7. Julie

    November 2, 2017 at 4:15 pm

    Which is better for soft cookies…butter or margarine?

    Reply
    • Janel

      November 9, 2017 at 12:24 pm

      I usually use butter, but either will work.

      Reply
  8. Dawn

    November 5, 2017 at 8:58 pm

    You didn’t say how to make the frosting

    Reply
    • Janel

      November 9, 2017 at 12:29 pm

      The recipe to the frosting is linked in the post! 🙂
      https://simplesweetrecipes.com/4-ingredient-powdered-sugar-frosting/

      Reply
    • Edna Brown

      November 11, 2018 at 8:13 am

      Please send the frosting recipe

      Reply
  9. cindi

    November 26, 2017 at 6:24 pm

    I have never seen sugar with baking soda…just checking that it isn’t a typo…thank you

    Reply
    • Janel

      December 14, 2017 at 12:03 pm

      That’s what we use!

      Reply
  10. Linda

    December 2, 2017 at 11:02 pm

    Can you substitute the same amount of almond extract for the lemon?

    Reply
    • Janel

      December 14, 2017 at 12:01 pm

      I’m sure you could and they’d taste great! I’ve never tried it, so let me know how they turn out!

      Reply
  11. Cindy Smith

    November 19, 2019 at 8:27 am

    will they ship good like over to Iraq,

    Reply
  12. Susan

    December 8, 2019 at 12:25 pm

    How many cookies does this make?

    Reply
  13. sabrina

    December 13, 2019 at 12:24 pm

    i almost want to add a little more lemon extract. it gave them a really nice flavor! super soft cookies and yummy. i even forgot the eggs til the end and they still turned out great. next time i will make the frosting but i bought some instead.

    Reply
  14. Carol

    November 18, 2020 at 1:42 pm

    Can these be made as drop cookies?

    Reply

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