Best Christmas Sugar Cookies
The holiday baking season is upon us and it is time to pull out my favorite Christmas cookie recipe. This is the Best Christmas Sugar Cookies recipe you will every make.
Christmas is just a few days away but you have plenty of time to bake a batch of these Christmas Sugar Cookies and decorate them with your favorite cookie frosting recipe.
Not only does this sugar cookie recipe make the ultimate Christmas sugar cookies for decorating with frosting but it is also a freezable cookie dough recipe so you can mix up a couple of batches of sugar cookie dough and stick them in the freezer for when you have time to bake and decorate your Christmas sugar cookies.
Christmas isn't the only time this best Sugar Cookie recipe can be used. Any time you need the perfect rolled sugar cookie recipe for birthday parties, tea parties or any time you feel like decorating cookies.
This recipe will make 36-48 cookies. I made a combination of 2 inch and 3 inch Christmas cookies and ended up with 36 cookies. If you are making 2 inch cookies you will end up with more than 48 cookies from this batch of Sugar Cookie dough.
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How to make the Best Christmas Sugar Cookies
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbs light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or almond extract
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons water
- 3 ½ cups all purpose flour
- Cream the butter, sugar and corn syrup together in the bowl of a (affiliate link) stand mixer.
- Beat in the vanilla extract and salt.
- In a small bowl lightly beat the egg and water together then add to the mixer bowl.
- Add the flour to the mixer bowl and beat on low until combined.
- Scrap the bowl and beat on medium until the cookie dough is smooth, about 5 minutes.
- Remove the dough from the bowl and divide in half.
- Form each half of dough into a ball, place the ball into a plastic bag and flatten into a disk.
- Place both disks of cookie dough onto a cookie sheet and chill for at least and hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. degrees.
- Roll the chilled dough out to ⅛-1/4 an inch thickness. Cut cookies out with your favorite cookie cutters.
- Gently place each cookie onto a cookie sheet that has been lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 8-12 minutes or until the edges are slightly golden.
- Decorate as desired.
- Makes about 36-48 cookies.
Best Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 sticks butter softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tbs light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or almond extract
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons water
- 3 ½ cups all purpose flour
Instructions
- Cream the butter, sugar and corn syrup together in the bowl of a stand mixer.
- Beat in the vanilla extract and salt.
- In a small bowl lightly beat the egg and water together then add to the mixer bowl.
- Add the flour to the mixer bowl and beat on low until combined.
- Scrape the bowl and beat on medium until the cookie dough is smooth, about 5 minutes.
- Remove the dough from the bowl and divide in half.
- Form each half of dough into a ball, place the ball into a plastic bag and flatten into a disk.
- Place both disks of cookie dough onto a cookie sheet and chill for at least and hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. degrees.
- Roll the chilled dough out to ⅛-1/4 an inch thickness. Cut cookies out with your favorite cookie cutters.
- Gently place each cookie onto a cookie sheet that has been lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 8-12 minutes or until the edges are slightly golden.
- Decorate as desired.
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Sarah
Are these crisp or chewy cookies? We like chewy!
Arlene Mobley
Hi Sarah These are chewy sugar cookies as long as they are not over baked. Remove them from the oven as soon as you see the edges turn a light golden color.
Mariana
Is it supposed to look like cake batter? I hope this turns out right. I have it in the freezer now. Finger crossed this goes right.
Arlene Mobley
Mariana
Hope the recipe turned out well. The batter is very thick.
Kelly @ Kelly Lynn's Sweets and Treats
And I love how my phone autocorrected Kelly to Jelly ??
Arlene Mobley
LOL that auto correct can be a pain!
Kelly @ Jelly Lynn's Sweets and Treats
These sound yummy!! Pinned! I might have to squeeze in time to bake a batch of these for Christmas! Xoxo