Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe (2024)

This happens to be my all time favorite drop Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe, and one of Santa's most requested Christmas cookies in our house.

Colt loves Sugar Cookies, so I thought I would surprise him and the kids with a batch a little early to help set the Christmas mood in our house.

The recipe produces soft and chewy Sugar Cookies with a crispy edge. Cream cheese and sour cream add a nice tang keeping the cookies from being overly sweet with a nice balance of flavor. I use a combination of butter for it's flavor, and coconut oil to help keep the cookies tender.

I almost forgot to mention the delicious crinkly tops. I mean who doesn't love a crinkly topped sugar coated cookie?

Once you try this Sugar Cookie Recipe I'm sure you'll be in love with it as much as we are.

Cream together 2 ounces Cream Cheese and 1 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar until well combined.

Melt 6 tablespoons Butter, and 1/3 cup Coconut Oil or Shortening.

Mix until well combined, and scrape sides of bowl as needed.

Add:

• 1 whole Egg
• 1 tablespoon Sour Cream
• 2 1/4 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt.

Mix until fully combined and scrape sides of bowl as needed for even mixing.

Stir in 2 1/4 cup All-Purpose Flour or Whole Wheat Pastry Flour until combined.

I don't eat raw dough due to the eggs but I will tell you it's really hard to resist this Sugar Cookie dough. According to Colt it's the best!

I have to chase him and the kids out of the kitchen to keep them out of my dough!

Roll Sugar Cookie dough into 1 1/2" balls about 1 1/2 tablespoons dough.

Roll in sugar.

Note: (If you wanted to frost the cookies you can skip rolling them in sugar and just use a glass to flatten the cookies into disks before baking.)

Until covered with sugar.

Place Sugar Cookie balls about 3" apart on Silpat or Parchment lined baking sheet.

Butter or use Coconut Oil to coat the bottom of a glass.

Coat bottom of glass in sugar.

Press each Sugar Cookie ball into a disk using bottom of glass.

Dip glass into sugar between each cookie.

Coating the bottom of glass with a little grease ensures the sugar sticks to the bottom of glass and makes for a gorgeous sugary coating to the top of the cookies.

Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 10-12 minutes until edges are just barely browning on edges.

For crunchy cookies bake until evenly browned.

Allow to cool for 3-4 minutes before removing to a cooling rack to finish cooling.

This Sugar Cookie Recipe is guaranteed to quickly become not only a holiday favorite but a year around favorite!

It's hard to find a quality Sugar Cookie Recipe that's not only soft and chewy but full of flavor.

I hope your family enjoys this recipe as much as we do.

You might also love these other Christmas Cookie Recipes:

• Molasses Cookies
• Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Snowball Cookies Recipe
• Cranberry Oatmeal White Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Snickerdoodle Cookies
• Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies