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Easy Sugar Cookies

30 minutes
Posted:11/13/19
Updated:7/21/22
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These super easy sugar cookies are soft, light, and they simply melt-in-your-mouth with each bite. These are one of my family’s favorite Christmas cookies!

These super easy sugar cookies are soft, light, and they simply melt-in-your-mouth with each bite. These are one of my family’s favorite Christmas cookies!

Pop one of these light and fluffy little guys into your mouth and it will melt away with the most wonderful sweet flavor! These cookies are just like biting into a cloud – so puffy and delicious. These cookies are simply irresistible! 

Every year around the holidays, you can find me in the kitchen baking up all of our favorite Christmas cookies. And these easy sugar cookies are at the top of my baking list. A must-make every year.

Just imagine the flavor combination of a classic sugar cookie mixed with a butter cookie. These have the taste of your typical sugar cookie, but with the melt-in-your-mouth affect that a butter cookie has. To me, this is pretty much a match made in cookie heaven.

These super easy sugar cookies are soft, light, and they simply melt-in-your-mouth with each bite. These are one of my family’s favorite Christmas cookies!

Sugar Cookie Ingredients:

Nothing too complicated with this recipe! These easy sugar cookies are made with common ingredients you probably already have in your pantry. Here’s the rundown:

  • Confectioners’ sugar (powdered sugar) – this type of sugar is what will give the cookies that melt-in-your-mouth texture.
  • Butter – a key flavor in these cookies!
  • Salt – just a tiny bit helps cookies retain their shape and enhance the flavor.
  • Vanilla extract – a must for the best sugar cookie taste!
  • Cornstarch – combined with the flour, cornstarch will soften the harsh proteins of the flour to result in a tender, soft cookie.
  • Flour – an obvious addition.
These super easy sugar cookies are soft, light, and they simply melt-in-your-mouth with each bite. These are one of my family’s favorite Christmas cookies!

How Do You Make Easy Sugar Cookies?

These could not be easier, so let’s get to baking! Start by preheating your oven to 300 degrees F. Lightly spray 2 cookie sheets with nonstick cooking spray or use silicone baking mats; set aside.

Now to mix everything up! In a large mixing bowl and using an electric mixer, cream together sugar, butter, salt and vanilla. Add cornstarch and flour and continue to mix until combined.

Once all of the ingredients are fully combined, scoop up tablespoons of dough and form into a round cookie. Place on the cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart. Bake for 25 minutes or until slightly light golden brown. Once you remove from the oven, allow cookies to cool for 5 minutes and then enjoy! Warning – you can’t stop at just one!

These super easy sugar cookies are soft, light, and they simply melt-in-your-mouth with each bite. These are one of my family’s favorite Christmas cookies!

Tips For Making Easy Sugar Cookies:

  • Be sure not to over bake your cookies. These should be soft and fluffy. No crispiness here!
  • Sugar cookies stay fresh for quite some time. Store them in an airtight container at room temperature for up to about 2 weeks.
  • Use a cookie dough scoop or measuring spoon to scoop the dough. This will ensure that the cookies are all the same size and they will bake more evenly.
  • You can replace the vanilla with other favorite flavor extracts for a fun twist on the classic recipe. Try mint, lemon, almond, maple or orange!
  • For a festive touch, try rolling these cookies in green and red sprinkles before baking. Or once cookies have cooled, top them with frosting and sprinkles.

These cookies are so soft and light – they melt in your mouth! Just like how a sugar cookie should! These easy sugar cookies remind me of cloud puffs and I always refer to them as sugar puff cookies.

Enjoy these puffy sugar cookies! I know you will! Just try not to eat the whole batch before Christmas! Ha!

Need more Christmas Cookie recipes? Try my Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies, Christmas Cookies you can bake with kids, Christmas Cut Out Sugar Cookies and Russian Tea Cakes! If you love peanut butter, try my classic peanut butter blossoms recipe too!

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These super easy sugar cookies are soft, light, and they simply melt-in-your-mouth with each bite. These are one of my family’s favorite Christmas cookies!
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
serves 18

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup cornstarch
  • 1 cup flour

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
  • Lightly spray 2 cookie sheets with nonstick spray.
  • In a bowl cream together sugar, butter, salt and vanilla with mixer.
  • Add cornstarch and flour and continue to mix until combined.
  • Form tablespoons of dough and place on cookie sheets, about 2 inches apart.
  • Bake for 25 minutes or until slightly light golden brown.

Nutrition Information:

Calories: 115kcal (6%)
Course:Dessert
Cuisine:American
Keyword:easy sugar cookies
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  1. Sue says

    August 10, 2022 at 2:17 am

    I have been looking for a fluffy sugar/butter cookie recipe for a long time thank you was just what I was looking for

    Reply
  2. Linda Hall says

    October 29, 2020 at 1:41 pm

    Tastes more like a shortbread cookie, than a sugar cookie, but still pretty tasty.

    Reply
    • Pamela says

      October 29, 2020 at 3:03 pm

      Happy to hear you liked these cookies Linda!

      Reply
  3. Tina S says

    October 26, 2020 at 11:29 am

    How many does this recipie make

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    • Pamela says

      October 26, 2020 at 3:23 pm

      The recipe makes 18 cookies.

      Reply
  4. Crystal Hoffman says

    August 23, 2020 at 7:20 pm

    Growing up my mom would make a recipe very similar to these all the time! She called the sugar pillows and I could never find the recipe. I’m so excited to find this recipe from you! They are in the oven right now. Fingers crossed, but the dough does taste very similar from my memories so I think they are going to be awesome! Thank you so much!

    Reply
    • Pamela says

      August 24, 2020 at 9:13 am

      Hey Crystal, I hope these turn out just like your Mom’s Sugar Pillows! Fingers crossed! 🙂

      Reply
  5. Sarah says

    January 16, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    I made these and added some sprinkles and my family gobbled these up! Thanks for a great recipe!

    Reply
  6. Barbara says

    October 29, 2019 at 2:47 pm

    A liquid ingredient is missing. An egg, perhaps?

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    • Pamela says

      October 29, 2019 at 7:59 pm

      Hey Barbara, no ingredient is missing. Butter and vanilla are the only liquid ingredients needed for these cookies.

      Reply
  7. Linda says

    January 3, 2019 at 4:28 pm

    Can thet be made with gluten free flour?

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    • Pamela says

      January 3, 2019 at 8:12 pm

      Hey Linda, I haven’t made these with gluten free flour, but I’m sure the recipe can be tweaked to become gluten free. Have fun and enjoy the cookies!

      Reply
  8. Kloe's Kitchen says

    April 7, 2014 at 10:23 pm

    Oooh! These look perfect! I adore sugar cookies, and these look so light and fluffy!

    Reply
  9. Melanie @ Carmel Moments says

    March 31, 2014 at 8:09 am

    Oh my gosh! That video of cookie monster is too awesome. Haha!
    Love me some cookies too. These look perfect!

    Reply
  10. Kathi @ Deliciously Yum! says

    March 30, 2014 at 7:55 pm

    I love, love, love the sound of these!! These cookies look and sounds soo good 🙂

    Reply
  11. cj says

    March 30, 2014 at 4:19 pm

    Yum ~ Would love to see this submitted at FoodFotoGallery.com for all to see 🙂

    Reply
  12. David @ Spiced says

    March 30, 2014 at 9:06 am

    These cookies look delicious! I love King Arthur as well…everything they do is amazing!! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

    Reply
  13. Zainab @ Blahnik Baker says

    March 29, 2014 at 10:43 pm

    These cookies look amazing. So soft 🙂
    Ps: I love your nails!

    Reply
  14. Consuelo @ Honey & Figs says

    March 29, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    Clouds in cookie form?? Are these even real?? Because they look too good to be true!

    Reply
  15. [email protected] N Cookies says

    March 29, 2014 at 11:33 am

    Oh, I can’t wait to see what else you make from the King Arthur cookbook. These DO look like they’d melt in your mouth. I’ve had meltaway chocolate cookies, but never a sugar/butter cookie that could achieve that texture. I will definitely be trying these!

    Reply
  16. Elizabeth @ SugarHero.com says

    March 28, 2014 at 7:54 pm

    Oh wow. I’m usually more of a chocolate cookie girl, but your description + these pictures is winning me over! Also, my 2 year old is obsessed with cookie monster (OB-SESSED) and we spend way too much time watching his clips on youtube, so the start of this blog post gave me a little chill. So nice to see cookie monster without hearing the “C is for cookie” song a million times, though!

    Reply
  17. Ashley @ My Midwest Table says

    March 28, 2014 at 4:52 pm

    I think I could do some serious damage on these cookies! They look like little sugary pillows. 🙂

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