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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. Tina @ Tina's Chic Corner says

    March 28, 2014 at 4:09 pm

    These cookies sure do look heavenly. 🙂 Haha, cookie monster was always my favorite and now I know why…cookies be good!

    Reply
  2. [email protected] says

    March 27, 2014 at 6:18 pm

    These cookies sound pretty much perfect! Love the Cookie Monster 🙂

    Reply
  3. Norma | Allspice and Nutmeg says

    March 27, 2014 at 3:22 pm

    These sounds so good. It’s like a shortbread cookie but with the added cornstarch. Pinning.

    Reply
  4. Chris @ Shared Appetite says

    March 27, 2014 at 2:50 pm

    What a great simple looking cookie recipe! Love that cookie monster gif!

    Reply
  5. Amanda @ Once Upon a Recipe says

    March 27, 2014 at 2:30 pm

    Melt in your mouth cookies? Umm, yes please!

    Reply
  6. Ashley says

    March 27, 2014 at 11:26 am

    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!!

    Reply
  7. Juliana says

    March 26, 2014 at 11:55 pm

    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 😀

    Reply
  8. Alyssa @ My Sequined Life says

    March 26, 2014 at 10:43 pm

    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 🙂

    Reply
  9. Laura @ Lauras Baking Talent says

    March 26, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    Love sugar cookies… and more butter in cookies is A ok in my book 🙂 Looking forward to all the recipes.

    Reply
  10. Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says

    March 26, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    mmmmm melt in your mouth sugar cookies sounds AMAZING to me!

    Reply
  11. Chris @ The Café Sucré Farine says

    March 26, 2014 at 9:05 pm

    These look melt in your mouth delicious Pamela. I would have to give them to the neighbors to keep myself away from them 🙂

    Reply
  12. Ashley | Spoonful of Flavor says

    March 26, 2014 at 8:13 pm

    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!

    Reply
  13. Stacy | Wicked Good Kitchen says

    March 26, 2014 at 6:54 pm

    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!

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  14. [email protected] Riffs says

    March 26, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    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. 😉

    Reply
  15. Koko says

    March 26, 2014 at 6:03 pm

    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…

    Reply
  16. Nora (A Clean Bake) says

    March 26, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    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!)

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  17. Helen @ Scrummy Lane says

    March 26, 2014 at 4:21 pm

    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?

    Reply
    • Pamela says

      March 26, 2014 at 5:30 pm

      I can’t say no to any cookie that involves ganache or buttercream. 😉

      Reply
  18. Kammie @ Sensual Appeal says

    March 26, 2014 at 4:11 pm

    I am alllll for sweet delicate fluffy goodness! Yum.

    Reply
  19. [email protected]'s Recipes says

    March 26, 2014 at 3:13 pm

    Love the cakey texture of those soft and light cookies!

    Reply
  20. Mary Frances says

    March 26, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    I’ve never seen cookies like this! Man, they look so good! Sugar puffs are totally good in my book! 🙂

    Reply
  21. Shashi @ http://runninsrilankan.com says

    March 26, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    Haha – that Cookie monster gif -that’s just too funny!
    These cookies look wonderful Pamela – so soft and pillowy!

    Reply
  22. Suzanne says

    March 26, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    Mmmmm… love melt in your mouth cookies. They look as light as a feather and so delicious!

    Reply
  23. yummychunklet says

    March 26, 2014 at 1:33 pm

    Tasty puffy cookies!

    Reply
  24. Choc Chip Uru says

    March 26, 2014 at 1:14 pm

    What gorgeous cookies, they are full of delicious flavour 😀
    And puffy = cloud in mouth!

    Cheers
    Choc Chip Uru

    Reply
  25. Lindsey @ American Heritage Cooking says

    March 26, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    I could devour like 20 of those! They look puffy but still soft and dense! Yummm. C is for Sugar Puff Cookie!

    Reply
  26. whatjessicabakednext says

    March 26, 2014 at 12:36 pm

    These look divine!

    Reply
  27. Daniela @ FoodrecipesHQ says

    March 26, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    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?

    Reply
    • Pamela says

      March 26, 2014 at 1:07 pm

      I would definitely not skip the cornstarch Daniela, it really helps the whole “melt in your mouth, pure happiness” experience. 😉

      Reply
  28. [email protected] says

    March 26, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    These are fantastic, Pamela! Puff-cloud-sugar…all good things! 🙂 ela

    Reply
  29. Jocelyn (Grandbaby Cakes) says

    March 26, 2014 at 12:26 pm

    Those cookies look so fantastic! I so want some of them! Super soft looking!

    Reply
  30. Jenn @ Once Upon a Tier says

    March 26, 2014 at 11:37 am

    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!

    Reply
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