Soft Sugar Cookies and Strawberry Frosting

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Have you been on the search for the perfect soft sugar cookies recipe? Our family has been making this one for decades!

Have you been on the search for the perfect soft sugar cookies recipe? Our family has been making this one for decades! #sugarcookies #softsugarcookies #sugarcookierecipe

Soft Sugar Cookies

Yes, in case you were wondering this is the recipe for my purple ribbon sugar cookies:) I love making these soft roll-out cookies. They are simple and so yummy. I normally just make a plain buttercream frosting for the top but this time I wanted to put a little twist on it and make it strawberry. The result was a perfect cookie + frosting that also smelled amazing. Please excuse my random cookie shapes when you get to the cookie pictures….I only have 7 cookie cutters; 2 hearts, a tree, a house, a butterfly, a star, and a maple leaf for some reason!

This recipe will make a large batch so if you don’t need to feed a crowd or don’t plan on freezing any for later, you might want to cut it in half.

Soft Sugar Cookies Recipe

What you need:

Cookies

  • 1 c. butter
  • 2 c. sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/2 t. vanilla
  • 5 c. flour
  • 1 t. salt
  • 1 t. baking soda
  • 1 c. sour cream (can sub a dairy free yogurt for dairy free)

Melt the butter and mix in the sugar.

Add the eggs and vanilla to the sugar/butter mixture. Mix well.

Add the dry ingredients to the mixture. Then add in the sour cream. Mix well until all the ingredients are blended.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface. Make cut-outs with cookie cutters.

Bake at 400F, on a greased cookie sheet, for about 8 minutes or until they start to get slightly browned.

Strawberry Frosting Recipe

  • 1/2 c. shortening
  • 1/2 c. butter
  • 1 t. vanilla
  • 4 c. powdered sugar
  • 1/8 c strawberry juice

Mix together all the ingredients for the frosting. For the “strawberry juice” I just took frozen strawberries and thawed them in the microwave. Then I strained the juice out of them and mixed the juice into the frosting.

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Soft Sugar Cookies
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Soft Sugar Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 5 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup sour cream

Instructions

  1. Melt the butter and mix in the sugar.
  2. Add the eggs and vanilla to the sugar/butter mixture. Mix well.
  3. Add the dry ingredients to the mixture. Then add in the sour cream. Mix well until all the ingredients are blended.
  4. Roll out the dough on a floured surface. Make cut outs with cookie cutters.
  5. Bake at 400F, on a greased cookie sheet, for about 8 minutes or until they start to get slightly browned.

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Do you have a sugar cookie recipe that your family loves? What do you think about these Soft Sugar Cookies?

This recipe for Soft Sugar Cookies was originally posted on Little House Living in November 2010. It has been updated as of January 2019.

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  2. My daughter and I made these but did a twist on the icing since she is highly allergic to strawberries. We used pure maple syrup. They are awesome! Thank you for sharing!

  3. 5 stars
    We made these yesterday and they were such a good cookie to make with kids – pretty quick and not too complicated. Thanks! We really liked them with the frosting.