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Bake Santa the best Christmas cookies this year with our favorite cutout sugar cookie recipe.
The season for making Christmas sweets has arrived. Enjoy this classic cookie cutter recipe.
Sugar cookies are easy to make at home and don’t require a lot of ingredients. Making rolled sugar cookies is a super fun activity with kids and perfect for any occasion. There’s something special about the holiday cookie tradition, and this idea is perfect.
If you’ve ever felt discouraged by the time it takes to roll out cookies, check out this simple recipe, one of my favorites.
Homemade sugar cookies are the best holiday dessert!
This is a recipe I use every year. You can make gorgeous cookie-shaped cookies that are delicious and easy to make. I love how these cookies are soft, chewy, buttery, and come out perfect every time.
If getting into the kitchen and baking cookies is on your holiday bucket list, grab some fun cookie cutters and get baking!
cut out sugar cookies
Yield: 16 servings
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Total time: 35 minutes
You’ll love the flavor and simplicity of this easy-to-shape cookie dough.
1
Use an electric or hand mixer, cream butter, and sugar. Add eggs and mix well. Add extract and blend.
2
Mix salt and flour separately and gradually add to wet ingredients. Knead it into a ball.
3
Cover and chill the dough for about 2 hours (this step is essential!).
4
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Working with about 1/3 of the batch at a time, lightly knead the cooled dough and roll it on a floured surface to about 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch thick.
5
Cut out shapes from the dough using a cookie cutter.
6
Bake the cookies on a baking tray lined with parchment paper for about 12 to 14 minutes, or until the edges are slightly golden.
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Tips for baking this easy cutout sugar cookie recipe:
Great sugar cookies need time to cool, so be sure to wait at least 2 hours. This will help it maintain its beautiful shape and prevent it from spreading. Don’t have enough time? If you’re in a hurry, chilling the dough in the freezer for an hour and then leaving it on the countertop for 5 minutes to soften slightly will work just as well. Sugar cookie dough can be frozen! This recipe can be made up to 3 months in advance, stored in freezer bags, and thawed when you want to bake cookies. You can also cover and store baked sugar cookies in the freezer. When ready, remove from the freezer, thaw, and decorate. If you have a nut allergy in your household, omit the almond extract. We love the luxurious bakery flavor that almond extract gives these cookies, but it’s easy to omit them.
Enjoy soft homemade cookies while drinking cold milk.
There’s nothing quite like a soft, chewy sugar cookie. With this recipe you can make cookies like a pro for any holiday or occasion.
Some of my best and most troubling memories are decorating cookies in the kitchen with my kids when I was little. Even now that our kids are teenagers, we still enjoy this activity.
My teammate Emily made these delicious holiday treats. About it she said:
“This is my first time making my own cookie dough for cutouts (I’ve had Pillsbury help me for years) and these are probably the best cookies I’ve ever had. They’re not bland. It’s also sweet enough and the almond extract adds even more flavor so it’s divine. I swapped out the flour for King Arthur 1:1 Gluten Free Flour and it still worked perfectly.
It melts in your mouth while being crispy on the outside and actually holds its cutout shape perfectly (no gingerbread chunks here 😂). I was also shocked at how easy the recipe was…I don’t think I’ll ever need to buy ready-made dough rolls again!”
Pair Crockpot Grinch Hot Chocolate with cookies.
About the artist:
Lina has a BA from Northern Arizona University and 11 years of blogging and photography experience, with work featured on Today.com, Martha Stewart, Country Living, Fox News, Buzzfeed, and HGTV .
