Vanilla-Butter Sugar Cookies
These are one of my favorite cookies to bake for Christmas. The dough recipe is versatile and you can use it for other holidays, too. Children like to help with decorating. —Cynthia Ettel, Glencoe, Minnesota
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 cups butter, softened
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- FROSTING:
- 1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 to 2 tablespoons whole milk
- Food coloring, optional
- Colored sugar
Reviews
These are my families favorite cookie!! Easy to make- I use it year round
I’m going to make these tomorrow my son said mom , can’t you find a sugar cookie made with butter ?? So got on line sent me here ! I. Hoping for the best will let ya know what I think .
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Stuck at home, so I decided to make these cookies. I made them a touch softer by using a bit more butter, them "dropped" them onto the cooking sheets. Didn't feel like screwing around with rolling and cutting them. Haven't frosted them yet, but the cookies themselves are delicious!
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Made good cookies. I even froze the dough because I wasn't able to use it right away. Thawed in the fridge over a couple days, and left at room temp for a couple hours before baking. Came out great!
Dough was easy to handle - and delicious cookies
I didn't chill the dough. I used a small scoop and made round balls. They came out good, but I don't feel this is a true sugar cookie. It's more of a butter cookie. It needed the icing to give it more flavor.
A Christmas cookie tray favorite for years
Very tasty cookie. I made the dough two nights ago and made the cookies today. It was very easy to work with. However, some of the cookies seemed to lose their shape during baking. I had some very bloated-looking candy canes! The frosting was also delicious, my only issue was that I doubled the frosting recipe and there still wasn't enough to frost all of my cookies, and we went light.