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I tried our five most popular sugar cookie recipes and judged them based on texture flavor and workability. Here's the one I'll make again and again.

 

Get our best tips for making cut-out sugar cookies from rolling out and cutting the cookie dough into shapes to baking and decorating sugar cookies.

 

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden. Let cool on racks. Glaze cookies with Pyure Sugar Free Cookie Icing. Icing Directions: Beat cornstarch Pyure Organic All Purpose Stevia Blend and butter with a mixer on medium-high speed until well combined. Gradually add milk and vanilla until smooth. Add more milk if icing mixture is too dry.

 

This best snowball cookies recipe makes a rich buttery melt-in-your-mouth festive treat rolled in confectioners' sugar to look like snowballs.

 

This sugar cookie recipe with self-rising flour is from my backwoods Mississippi grandmother. My mom kept the recipe and we grew up eating raw cookie dough before snacking on the cookies during the holidays. This will always be my basic cookie dough recipe. It's quick and easy to make with everyday ingredients in the most sparsely stocked kitchens. You don't have to be a master chef to get a ...

 

This sugar cookie frosting is quick and easy to make with just 4 simple ingredients; color with different food colorings and have fun decorating!

 

This sugar cookie icing is a simple glaze that's easy to make and color in minutes. It's smooth glossy and hardens perfectly for pretty decorated cookies.

 

These 3-ingredient peanut butter cookies are naturally gluten-free ready in less than 30 minutes and easy to make for a soft and chewy treat.

 

Using this recipe for The Best Rolled Sugar Cookies you can roll out the sugar cookie dough cut it into all sorts of shapes and sizes and decorate the cookies to suit the occasion (Hint: We love holiday cookie cutters!). So let's dive in and see how to make sugar cookies from scratch following this recipe with lots of tips and tricks along the way to ensure cookie-baking success.

 

This sugar cookie recipe uses easy ingredients you probably already have on hand for soft and chewy cookies that are sure to satisfy a sweet tooth.