How To Make The Best Sugar Cookies

[sarahsedmot]

I made these and they are the softest most delicious sugar cookies I have ever tried... I use this recipe everytime!

[Miss_afua]

Not me copying and pasting the ingredients for you guys😱
thank me later😂😂
INGREDIENTS
Sugar Cookies
1½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1½ cups granulated sugar
1½ ounces (3 tablespoons) cream cheese, softened
1 large egg
2 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon McCormick vanilla extract
½ teaspoon McCormick almond extract
1 teaspoon kosher salt
3½ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
½ teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
Royal Icing
4 cups powdered sugar
½ teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup pasteurized egg whites
Gel food coloring of choice
Water, as needed
PREPARATION
Make the cookie dough: In a large bowl, cream together the butter, sugar, and cream cheese with an electric hand mixer on high speed for about 5 minutes, until fluffy and the sugar is mostly dissolved. Scrape down the bowl as needed to evenly beat the mixture.
Add the egg, egg yolks, vanilla, and almond extract and mix well, scraping down the sides of the bowl.
Add the salt, then sift the flour, baking powder, and cream of tartar into the bowl and fold to incorporate some of the flour, then beat on low speed, just until incorporated and the dough comes together.
Shape the dough into a flat disc and wrap tightly in plastic wrap. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, or up to 3-4 days.
When ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 350˚F (180˚C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Remove the dough from the fridge and let sit at room temperature for a few minutes to soften slightly.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the cookie dough with a rolling pin to ¼-inch thick.
Dip cookie cutters of your choice in some extra flour and cut out shapes from the dough. Gather any excess dough into a ball, chill in the fridge to firm, then re-roll and cut out more cookies. Place the cookies on the prepared baking sheet and chill for at least 20 minutes to ensure they hold their shapes.
Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges just barely start to turn golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack before decorating with royal icing or frosting.
To make the royal icing, sift the powdered sugar into a large bowl and add the salt. On one side of the bowl, add the vanilla and egg whites.
Where you added the liquids, begin whisking the powdered sugar into the liquids, gathering a bit more as you whisk to prevent lumps from forming, until all of the powdered sugar is incorporated. Add food coloring, if desired, and whisk to incorporate. You can divide the icing into smaller bowls to make more than one color. At this point, the icing should be a good consistency for piping borders. If you’d like the frosting to be looser to flood or dip your cookies, add a few tablespoons of water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until it reaches your desired consistency.
Decorate the cookies as desired.
Enjoy!

[rosiegonzalez]

Tasty: "it's cookie season y'all"
Calendar: it's July 29
Me: iTs NeVeR a bAd tImE tO tUrN On tHe OVeN

[redrightsue]

Makes 1-2 dozen cookies depending on size
🌟 INGREDIENTS 🌟
• Sugar Cookies
1½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1½ cups granulated sugar
1½ ounces (3 tablespoons) cream cheese, softened
1 large egg
2 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon McCormick vanilla extract
½ teaspoon McCormick almond extract
1 teaspoon kosher salt
3½ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
½ teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• Royal Icing
4 cups powdered sugar
½ teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup pasteurized egg whites
Gel food coloring of choice
Water, as needed
⭐ PREPARATION
Make the cookie dough: In a large bowl, cream together the butter, sugar, and cream cheese with an electric hand mixer on high speed for about 5 minutes, until fluffy and the sugar is mostly dissolved. Scrape down the bowl as needed to evenly beat the mixture.
Add the egg, egg yolks, vanilla, and almond extract and mix well, scraping down the sides of the bowl.
Add the salt, then sift the flour, baking powder, and cream of tartar into the bowl and fold to incorporate some of the flour, then beat on low speed, just until incorporated and the dough comes together.
Shape the dough into a flat disc and wrap tightly in plastic wrap. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, or up to 3-4 days.
When ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 350˚F (180˚C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Remove the dough from the fridge and let sit at room temperature for a few minutes to soften slightly.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the cookie dough with a rolling pin to ¼-inch thick.
Dip cookie cutters of your choice in some extra flour and cut out shapes from the dough. Gather any excess dough into a ball, chill in the fridge to firm, then re-roll and cut out more cookies. Place the cookies on the prepared baking sheet and chill for at least 20 minutes to ensure they hold their shapes.
Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges just barely start to turn golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack before decorating with royal icing or frosting.
⭐ To make the royal icing, sift the powdered sugar into a large bowl and add the salt. On one side of the bowl, add the vanilla and egg whites.
Where you added the liquids, begin whisking the powdered sugar into the liquids, gathering a bit more as you whisk to prevent lumps from forming, until all of the powdered sugar is incorporated. Add food coloring, if desired, and whisk to incorporate. You can divide the icing into smaller bowls to make more than one color. At this point, the icing should be a good consistency for piping borders. If you’d like the frosting to be looser to flood or dip your cookies, add a few tablespoons of water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until it reaches your desired consistency.
Decorate the cookies as desired.
Enjoy!

[laresacourville]

To the narrator: I love your voice! I can tell you really enjoy what you're doing.

[franciscabaduya]

🎄✨ _Christmas Cookie Ingredients_ ✨🎄

•1 1/2 cups room temperature butter
•1 1/2 cups white sugar
•3 tbsp cream cheese
•1 egg
•2 egg yolks
•1 tsp vanilla extract
•1/2 tsp almond extract
•1 tsp kosher salt
•3 1/2 cups flour
•1/2 tsp baking powder
•2 tsp cream of tartar

✨ _Royal Icing Ingredients_ ✨

•4 cups powdered sugar (sifted)
•Water (as needed)
•1/2 tsp salt
•1 tsp vanilla extract
•1/4 cup pasteurized egg whites or meringue powder

[sraminc]

You really know its christams season *when you use up 8 hours of your day to make cookies that’ll last 4 minutes*

[amarisd.]

For those of you wondering, yes this recipe works and they taste great! I just made some Valentine’s Day sugar cookies and they look adorable.😊

[atomicpug]

When I'm rolling out my dough and flouring my cookie cutters, I use powdered sugar instead of flour; It makes a huge difference. It's really good.

[AliyaEats]

It’s not the holidays but we are in Covid-19 lockdown so I thought why not get into a Christmas Vibe

[ruaridhprentice]

“It’s cookie season y’all”

That is the most energetic and overall amazing start to a video I have ever heard.

[brenready]

Well it's 2021 and we are still here! I just made this cookie dough and am getting ready to bake the cookies. The grandkids are coming over tomorrow to decorate them and they are so excited!🥰 This recipe is very similar to mine that I've used for years so I think they will be delicious! I did this with my 5 children when they were little and now I'm gonna do this with 5 grandchildren tomorrow!! 🥰 I feel very blessed! I think it is so important to make memories and make every minute count, especially today! I hope everyone everywhere enjoys the holidays, if you want to. Merry Christmas and may God bless us all!! 🍪🌲👼🧑‍🎄🤶🙏❤✌🌎💯

[tatimilena]

I don't care yall once the calendar hits november, it's Christmas season

[Trentsum]

Cream together
1.5cps room temp butter
1.5cps sugar
3tbsp cream cheese
for 5mins

Add
1egg
2egg yolks
1tsp vanilla ext
0.5tsp almond ext
until well combined

Sift dry ingredients together
1tsp kosher salt
3.5cps AP flour
0.5tsp baking powder
2tsp cream of tartar

Fold and mix dry ingredients with wet until just combined.
Don't overmix.
Keep dough cold.
Refrigerate dough for 2hrs before using.

Roll and cut 0.25inch cookies
Chill cut cookies 20mins
Bake on 350f (180c)
10-15mins

Royal Icing for decorating. Mix
4cps sifted powdered sugar
0.25cps pasteurized egg whites
3-5 drops of food coloring

[haleygold]

I've made these 2 years in a row, they come out perfect! tip: If you don't have enough room to put trays of raw cookies in your fridge, and you live somewhere cold, leave them on your deck or in the garage for a few minutes

[carmenjimenez]

She really did explain everything throughly without being too much to take in at one time will definitely try she really makes it seem doable

[johnland]

INGREDIENTS

Sugar Cookies
1½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened

1½ cups granulated sugar

1½ ounces (3 tablespoons) cream cheese, softened

1 large egg

2 large egg yolks

1 teaspoon McCormick vanilla extract

½ teaspoon McCormick almond extract

1 teaspoon kosher salt

3½ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting

½ teaspoon baking powder

2 teaspoons cream of tartar

Royal Icing
4 cups powdered sugar

½ teaspoon kosher salt

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

¼ cup pasteurized egg whites

Gel food coloring of choice

Water, as needed

PREPARATION

Make the cookie dough: In a large bowl, cream together the butter, sugar, and cream cheese with an electric hand mixer on high speed for about 5 minutes, until fluffy and the sugar is mostly dissolved. Scrape down the bowl as needed to evenly beat the mixture.

Add the egg, egg yolks, vanilla, and almond extract and mix well, scraping down the sides of the bowl.

Add the salt, then sift the flour, baking powder, and cream of tartar into the bowl and fold to incorporate some of the flour, then beat on low speed, just until incorporated and the dough comes together.

Shape the dough into a flat disc and wrap tightly in plastic wrap. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, or up to 3-4 days.

When ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 350˚F (180˚C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Remove the dough from the fridge and let sit at room temperature for a few minutes to soften slightly.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the cookie dough with a rolling pin to ¼-inch thick.

Dip cookie cutters of your choice in some extra flour and cut out shapes from the dough. Gather any excess dough into a ball, chill in the fridge to firm, then re-roll and cut out more cookies. Place the cookies on the prepared baking sheet and chill for at least 20 minutes to ensure they hold their shapes.

Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges just barely start to turn golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack before decorating with royal icing or frosting.

To make the royal icing, sift the powdered sugar into a large bowl and add the salt. On one side of the bowl, add the vanilla and egg whites.

Where you added the liquids, begin whisking the powdered sugar into the liquids, gathering a bit more as you whisk to prevent lumps from forming, until all of the powdered sugar is incorporated. Add food coloring, if desired, and whisk to incorporate. You can divide the icing into smaller bowls to make more than one color. At this point, the icing should be a good consistency for piping borders. If you’d like the frosting to be looser to flood or dip your cookies, add a few tablespoons of water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until it reaches your desired consistency.

Decorate the cookies as desired.

Enjoy!

[sharenatypaesch]

Best sugar cookies ingredients (GRAMS AND MILLILITER)❤️

✨Cookie dough✨:
- 350 grams butter
- 300 grams white sugar
- 45 grams cream cheese (mom chou)
- 1 egg
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp (2, 5 ml) almond extract
- 1 tsp (6 grams) kosher salt
- 420 grams flour
- 1/2 tsp (2, 5 grams) baking powder
- 2 tsp (8 grams) cream of tartar


✨Royal icing✨:
- 480 grams powdered sugar
- Water (as needed)
- 1/2 tsp (3 grams) salt
- 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
- 62, 5 ml pasteurized egg whites or 30 grams meringue powder

[sarenaally]

I’ve made this recipe multiple times! It’s my go to sugar cookie recipe for the holidays 🎄

[helenarichard]

Thank you, I learned so much. I was used to making pie crust and making pie crust is like a mental ward compared to baking cookies, like, anything is allowed and you can go crazy, not cool the dough, no pie weights, and it turns out good still. If you try tricks like this with cookies, e.g. use ghee, use melted butter (cause tunnel syndrome ya'll), not using the fridge, yeah your dough will always be either crumbly or greasy. I realised cookies are no laughing matter like pie crust. So thanks so much for this video