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.
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!
It’s all the mixing and flour.
The rolling and snitching some dough to snack on.
The cutting and the frosting.
And of course, the reward at the end. The best soft sugar cookies ever!
The are thick, and soft, and so, so, good!
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!
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!
Super Soft Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
Kristi
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!
Jennifer
Those cookies look so good! Frosted sugar cookies are my all time favorite, so I can’t wait to make these.
Becky
I love sugar cookies. I can’t wait to try out your recipe! Your cookies look really yummy!
Audrey McClelland
I love sugar cookies. They are my absolute favorite cookie in the world, and they’re even better with frosting! Om nom nom.
Scott
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!
Mary
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.
Tracy
Do they have a lemon taste?
Janel
Just a small hint of lemon! So good!
Julie
Which is better for soft cookies…butter or margarine?
Janel
I usually use butter, but either will work.
Dawn
You didn’t say how to make the frosting
Janel
The recipe to the frosting is linked in the post! 🙂
https://simplesweetrecipes.com/4-ingredient-powdered-sugar-frosting/
cindi
I have never seen sugar with baking soda…just checking that it isn’t a typo…thank you
Janel
That’s what we use!
Linda
Can you substitute the same amount of almond extract for the lemon?
Janel
I’m sure you could and they’d taste great! I’ve never tried it, so let me know how they turn out!