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.
Tina @ Tina's Chic Corner says
These cookies sure do look heavenly. 🙂 Haha, cookie monster was always my favorite and now I know why…cookies be good!
[email protected] says
These cookies sound pretty much perfect! Love the Cookie Monster 🙂
Norma | Allspice and Nutmeg says
These sounds so good. It’s like a shortbread cookie but with the added cornstarch. Pinning.
Chris @ Shared Appetite says
What a great simple looking cookie recipe! Love that cookie monster gif!
Amanda @ Once Upon a Recipe says
Melt in your mouth cookies? Umm, yes please!
Ashley says
More cookies is always a good thing! And oh gosh I could eat a bunch of these in one sitting – I love melt-away type cookies!!
Juliana says
These cookies look great…light and sugary…yum!
I would love to have one or two with a cup of coffee…
Thanks for the recipe Pamela…hope you are enjoying your week 😀
Alyssa @ My Sequined Life says
I feel the same way about cookies as you and the Monster up there! I bet the cornstarch makes these so soft and melt-in-your-mouth-ish. YUM 🙂
Laura @ Lauras Baking Talent says
Love sugar cookies… and more butter in cookies is A ok in my book 🙂 Looking forward to all the recipes.
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says
mmmmm melt in your mouth sugar cookies sounds AMAZING to me!
Chris @ The Café Sucré Farine says
These look melt in your mouth delicious Pamela. I would have to give them to the neighbors to keep myself away from them 🙂
Ashley | Spoonful of Flavor says
If you give me a fluffy cookie, I won’t be able to eat just one! Love the King Arthur Cookbook. Can’t wait to see what other cookies you bake!
Stacy | Wicked Good Kitchen says
Oh, my! The perfect sugary, buttery cookie for all Cookie Monsters! Love how the crumb looks fluffy yet buttery. Must make these soon. Thank you for sharing, Pamela!
[email protected] Riffs says
Mrs KR has that cookbook too — it’s a winner. And these cookies sure sound like winners to me. Sugar cookies getting cozy with butter cookies? Yes, please. 😉
Koko says
These look like clouds! And I think your sparkly pink nails match them perfectly. I share the same feelings towards cookies as you and cookie monster do…
Nora (A Clean Bake) says
Oh my goodness, these look like little clouds! They are gorgeous in their simplicity. I’m sure they taste fantastic. (ps: I LOVE the cookie monster gif. I second that!)
Helen @ Scrummy Lane says
Mmm … I bet these melt in your mouth! I’m thinking that it would also work to sandwich two of them together with some ganache or buttercream … what do you think?
Pamela says
I can’t say no to any cookie that involves ganache or buttercream. 😉
Kammie @ Sensual Appeal says
I am alllll for sweet delicate fluffy goodness! Yum.
[email protected]'s Recipes says
Love the cakey texture of those soft and light cookies!
Mary Frances says
I’ve never seen cookies like this! Man, they look so good! Sugar puffs are totally good in my book! 🙂
Shashi @ http://runninsrilankan.com says
Haha – that Cookie monster gif -that’s just too funny!
These cookies look wonderful Pamela – so soft and pillowy!
Suzanne says
Mmmmm… love melt in your mouth cookies. They look as light as a feather and so delicious!
yummychunklet says
Tasty puffy cookies!
Choc Chip Uru says
What gorgeous cookies, they are full of delicious flavour 😀
And puffy = cloud in mouth!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Lindsey @ American Heritage Cooking says
I could devour like 20 of those! They look puffy but still soft and dense! Yummm. C is for Sugar Puff Cookie!
whatjessicabakednext says
These look divine!
Daniela @ FoodrecipesHQ says
I have all ingredients but the cornstarch. Uh, would love to make these cuties now but I guess cornstarch is an important ingredient… I can’t skip it, right?
Pamela says
I would definitely not skip the cornstarch Daniela, it really helps the whole “melt in your mouth, pure happiness” experience. 😉
[email protected] says
These are fantastic, Pamela! Puff-cloud-sugar…all good things! 🙂 ela
Jocelyn (Grandbaby Cakes) says
Those cookies look so fantastic! I so want some of them! Super soft looking!
Jenn @ Once Upon a Tier says
These look so delicious and easy!! It sounds like a perfect match to me, too! I can’t wait to see what other cookies you will soon be making!