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.
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.
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!
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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Easy Sugar Cookies
PrintIngredients
- 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.
Sue says
I have been looking for a fluffy sugar/butter cookie recipe for a long time thank you was just what I was looking for
Linda Hall says
Tastes more like a shortbread cookie, than a sugar cookie, but still pretty tasty.
Pamela says
Happy to hear you liked these cookies Linda!
Tina S says
How many does this recipie make
Pamela says
The recipe makes 18 cookies.
Crystal Hoffman says
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!
Pamela says
Hey Crystal, I hope these turn out just like your Mom’s Sugar Pillows! Fingers crossed! 🙂
Sarah says
I made these and added some sprinkles and my family gobbled these up! Thanks for a great recipe!
Barbara says
A liquid ingredient is missing. An egg, perhaps?
Pamela says
Hey Barbara, no ingredient is missing. Butter and vanilla are the only liquid ingredients needed for these cookies.
Linda says
Can thet be made with gluten free flour?
Pamela says
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!
Kloe's Kitchen says
Oooh! These look perfect! I adore sugar cookies, and these look so light and fluffy!
Melanie @ Carmel Moments says
Oh my gosh! That video of cookie monster is too awesome. Haha!
Love me some cookies too. These look perfect!
Kathi @ Deliciously Yum! says
I love, love, love the sound of these!! These cookies look and sounds soo good 🙂
cj says
Yum ~ Would love to see this submitted at FoodFotoGallery.com for all to see 🙂
David @ Spiced says
These cookies look delicious! I love King Arthur as well…everything they do is amazing!! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Zainab @ Blahnik Baker says
These cookies look amazing. So soft 🙂
Ps: I love your nails!
Consuelo @ Honey & Figs says
Clouds in cookie form?? Are these even real?? Because they look too good to be true!
Jamie@Milk N Cookies says
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!
Elizabeth @ SugarHero.com says
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!
Ashley @ My Midwest Table says
I think I could do some serious damage on these cookies! They look like little sugary pillows. 🙂