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Nice 'n' Soft Sugar Cookies Recipe

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The holidays just wouldn't be the same without cutout cookies. This easy recipe yields cookies so soft they'll melt in your mouth. Have fun baking them in your favorite holiday shapes! —Cathy Hall, Phoenix, Arizona

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Nice 'n' Soft Sugar Cookies Recipe

Prep: 1-1/2 hours + chilling Bake: 5 min./batch + cooling

Yield: 42 Servings

90 5 95

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 egg
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2-1/2 cups self-rising flour
FROSTING:
2-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup water
4 teaspoons meringue powder
1/4 cup light corn syrup
Green, red and yellow food coloring

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually add flour. Divide dough in half. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or until easy to handle.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out one portion of dough to 3/16-in. thickness. Cut with floured cookie cutters. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets.
Bake at 375° for 5-7 minutes or until set. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough.
For frosting, in a small bowl, beat the confectioners' sugar, water and meringue powder on low speed just until combined. Beat on high for 4 minutes or until soft peaks form. Add corn syrup; beat 1 minute longer.
Tint with food coloring of your choice. Cover frosting with damp paper towels or plastic wrap between uses. Spread and/or pipe frosting on cookies. Let stand until set. Yield: 3-1/2 dozen.

Editor’s Note: As a substitute for each cup of self-rising flour, place 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a measuring cup. Add all-purpose flour to measure 1 cup. As a substitute for each 1/2 cup of self-rising flour, place 3/4 teaspoon baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a 1/2-cup measuring cup. Add all-purpose flour to measure 1/2 cup.
Meringue powder is available from Wilton Industries. Call 1-800/794-5866 or visit wilton.com.

Originally published as Nice 'n' Soft Sugar Cookies in Taste of Home December/January 2008, p7

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Reviewed on Feb. 08, 2011 by Danielleklatt

THE eastest and best tasting cookies ever, my new fave sugar cookie recipe

Reviewed on Dec. 31, 2010 by stacbisk

this is the easiest and best sugar cookie recipe i ever used

Reviewed on Dec. 27, 2010 by SZA

PS - I did NOT use the recommended frosting. Meringue powder seems fussy to me for a sugar cookie icing.

Reviewed on Dec. 27, 2010 by SZA

I made these cookies with my young niece & nephew and really enjoyed them. They are softer than your average cutout cookie, so nice for little kids. Dough was extremely easy even for them to work with. The cookie lacks some depth of flavor but you could help that out by adding some almond in place of the vanilla extract, I suppose. I love the use of self-rising flour, but a lot of people won't have use for the rest of the bag once they've made these cookies. Your call. If you have tots in the house, I'd recommend investing in a bag of self-rise flour and just having fun for an afternoon making these soft and sweet cookies!

Reviewed on Dec. 24, 2010 by sedelligatti

These were very soft and delicious! I made my cookies a bit thicker than the 3/16 of an inch though. I also used my own buttercream frosting recipe instead.

Reviewed on Nov. 22, 2010 by kmarket

Excellent cookie--- it is fairly sweet, but that`s alright. I didn`t leave them in the fridge for the whole 2 hours and that was a mistake... as they went a little flat when baking. I just made my next batch a little thicker and they were perfect. A good sugar cookie that I`d recommend. (I used my own icing as well and colored sprinkles---impressive!)

Reviewed on Nov. 05, 2010 by pearlrvr

Excellent cookie, terrible icing.

Reviewed on Feb. 16, 2010 by G'maof5

Made them twice to make sure I didn't make a mistake first time. Followed recipe exactly. They have a terrible bitter taste. Texture was great.

Reviewed on Jan. 03, 2010 by jessicalynnmorris

read the reviews and ingrediants and decided to not make these but another recipie i found on a diff site for "softest sugar cookies ever" and boy they were good but turned rock hard overnight so i threw them away and made these...wow! i didnt make the icing just had them plain, my oh my these really are the best sugar cookies i think i have ever had i left the dough a bit thicker than they instruced but the cookies turned out perfect not crunchy in any way shape or form jsut soft from the corners to the center and that was what i was going for. so happy i gave this recipie another though and a try cus this is my new xmas cookie recipie. i did go a bit over board on the vanilla...as im a vanilla freak... addedd lots of it, and i had to add another egg cus the dough wasnt coming together as i would have hoped but they turned out great!! def worth a try and super simple and easy as well

Reviewed on Dec. 22, 2009 by GargAkhil

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