Best Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
Enjoy a holiday-ready dessert with these tender cookies. You get plenty of classic sugar-cookie flavor and a blank canvas for decorating! —Kathleen Caddy, Tempe, Arizona
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup butter, softened
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 1/8 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1-2/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Colored sugar or sprinkles, optional
Reviews
These were horrible! I was so hopeful that I doubled the recipe. My math was correct. I changed lemon to vanilla and left out the nutmeg because I wanted to combine them with a chocolate frosting. I chilled the dough overnight, sprinkled it with flour, covered it with baking parchment, and rolled it out. It rolled nicely, but when I tried to lift the paper, the dough stuck and tore up completely. I scraped it up, put it back in the bowl, added another cup of flour, left it in the refrigerator again, and tried again to roll it out, with more flour on top this time, and again it tore up horribly. I finally added some almond flavoring and chocolate chips and spooned it onto the parchment and baked cookies. They were really puffy, and the taste is OK, but these did NOT work for me.
This was one of the best sugar cookie recipes I have ever tried! They turned out perfectly crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, with a classic sugary taste that is polished off with a fresh hint of lemon.
These were great!