Daily Survival: Soft And Chewy Frosted Sugar Cookies

It’s that time of year to gather with friends and family and decorate cookies for the holidays. These soft cream cheese frosted sugar cookies are so delicious! Who can say “no” to a soft cookie with the perfect amount of sweetness? Adults and kids alike will love this cookie to the core!

Frosted Sugar Cookies

I’ve always had a soft spot for Frosted Sugar Cookies. They’re so easy to make with the right recipe, and the taste is phenomenal. Making these cookies with friends and family this year will bring you joy and add to the pleasure of getting together at this special time! What fun memories you are making with everyone you love.

Many American families bake cookies as a way to spend time together. Sugar cookies are most popular around the holidays, and most people keep them as a family tradition.

Here are some other fun holiday recipes for you to try!

How to Make Frosted Sugar Cookies

Is this your first time making Frosted Sugar Cookies? If so, this is the perfect recipe for you! It’s a delicious sugar cookie recipe with easy-to-follow instructions that anyone can make! Print this recipe out and keep it close by. Many people will ask you HOW you made such soft sugar cookies.

Items You Need In The Kitchen:

Hand Mixer or Stand Mixer
Mixing bowls
Cookie Cutters (I used a Wilton Soft Grip Christmas Tree)
Cookie sheet
Parchment paper
Rolling pin
Measuring Cups
Measuring Spoons

All-Purpose White flour (I use bread flour): You can use all-purpose flour, but I find the Sugar Cookies come out fluffier with white bread flour. For those who like nutritional information, my bread flour has more protein than other flour varieties, which I appreciate when making any of my pastries or bread recipes.
Granulated White Sugar is used to maintain moisture, create a softer cookie texture, and add sweetness and flavor.
Salted or Unsalted Butter (softened): Due to the fat content, butter helps to produce softer Sugar Cookies than those made with margarine, enriches the flavor, and helps to keep the cookies from crumbling. Butter prevents the eggs or any moist or wet ingredients from evaporating, which creates moist, soft, and velvety Sugar Cookies. Due to the added salt in this recipe, you don’t need to use butter that contains added salt. It also reduces the amount of sodium in the recipe for those concerned with sodium content.
Sour Cream: This 20% fat product is used to add more flavor to Sugar Cookies. The cream is mixed with lactic acid, which creates that sour taste we all love and helps to thicken it.
Eggs are a great source of protein. They help to bind the ingredients together, creating moist and soft Sugar Cookies. They also increase browning during the cooking process, add a deliciously rich flavor, and help to extend the life of the cookies.
Baking Soda adds carbon dioxide to the dough, helping create a delicious, soft, and chewy cookie.
Salt: Used to enhance the flavors of the other ingredients and offset the sugar’s taste.
Vanilla Extract or Almond Extract (I use vanilla): Adds and enhances the flavors of the butter, sugar, sour cream, egg, flour, and baking soda.

Ingredients – The Best Cream Cheese Frosting

Butter (softened): Due to the fat content, butter helps to produce a softer cream cheese frosting and enriches the flavor.
Cream Cheese (softened): Helps to thicken the frosting; adds a mild smooth flavor.
Powdered Sugar helps to create a smooth consistency and adds sweetness. It is the preferred sugar in baked goods, although some people will use confectioners’ sugar.
Vanilla Extract: Adds and enhances the flavors of the butter, powdered sugar, and cream cheese.
Sprinkles (color of choice): Little bits of chocolate-flavored candies, typically made with white chocolate that doesn’t melt. Sold in a variety of colors. It adds a fun flare to the sugar cookies without using food coloring that can’t be beaten!

Instructions – Frosted Sugar Cookies

Step One: Gather Ingredients – Preheat Oven – Grease Cookie Sheets

Gather your ingredients so you’re ready to make the recipe. Preheat the oven to (350°F) = (176°C). Grease your cookie sheets or place parchment paper on them. Set them aside.

Step Two: Combine Ingredients – Cream Until Smooth

Using a stand mixer with its bowl or an electric hand mixer in a large mixing bowl, either running on low speed, use the whisk or paddle attachment to combine the sugar, sour cream, butter, eggs, vanilla, or almond extract. Cream until smooth.

Creamed Ingredients

Step Three: Add Baking Soda, Salt, and Flour

It’s time to add the dry ingredients, the baking soda, and salt. Next, gradually add the flour and mix until the flour mixture is smooth.

Slowly add Flour

Mix Thoroughly

If you want to roll out the cookies later, wrap the dough in plastic wrap or a freezer bag and refrigerate it until you’re ready to cut out and cook them.

Step Four: Place Dough on a Floured Surface

When ready to cut out the cookies, place the dough ball onto a lightly floured mat surface or countertop. Please flour your rolling pin as well. Cut out the cookies.

Step Five: Cut Cookies Out

When I roll out the dough, I like my cookies about 1/4 inch thick. I prefer a thicker, softer cookie. A thin cookie may not be as soft as a thick cookie when cooked to a golden brown color, so you decide how you like your cookies. Use your cookie cutter(s) and cut the dough. It’s fun to have different-shaped cookie cutters to add a festive feel. A smaller cutter will provide more cookies for your guests if you want a larger serving quantity for this recipe.

Step Six: Bake for 10-15 Minutes

Place the cookies on the cookie or baking sheet. Bake for 10-15 minutes, depending on their size and thickness. My 1/4-inch cookies needed 15 minutes to bake. Let them cool at room temperature on the cookie sheet or wire rack before removing them to frost. Make the cream cheese frosting.

Step Seven: Make the Cream Cheese Frosting

The Best Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream the butter and cream cheese in a medium-sized bowl.
Add the powdered sugar and vanilla. Mix until it is creamy and fluffy.

Apply the sugar cookie icing as a frosting with the thickness you like. After frosting them, sprinkle them with “Sprinkles,” if desired. Decorating the cookies is so much fun! If you want a particular design, you could use a piping bag to decorate with the frosting, but I used a silicone spatula and covered each cookie completely.

Remove the uneaten cookies from the cookie sheets or racks and place them in the refrigerator because they have cream cheese on them, and we don’t have any preservatives.

Finished Product

Soft Sugar Cookies & Frosting Recipe

Soft Sugar Cookies by Food Storage Moms

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 15

Total Time 30

Servings 12 cookies

Author Linda Loosli

Ingredients

Soft Sugar Cookies Recipe

2-3/4 cup all purpose white flour (I use bread flour)
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup salted or unsalted butter (softened)
1/2 cup sour cream
1 egg
3/8 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract

The Best Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

1/4 cup butter (softened)
4 ounces cream cheese (softened)
1-1/2 to 1-3/4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

Soft Sugar Cookies

Gather all of your ingredients. Preheat the oven to (350°F) = (176°C). Grease your cookie sheets or place parchment paper on them. Set them aside.
Combine the sugar, sour cream, butter, eggs, vanilla or almond extract, and cream until smooth.
Add the baking soda and salt.
Gradually add the flour and mix until smooth. If you want to roll out the cookies later, place the dough in plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator.
When ready to cut out the cookies, place the dough onto a floured mat or countertop. Please flour your rolling pin as well.
I like my cookies about 1/4 inch thick when I roll out the dough. I prefer a thicker softer cookie. A thin cookie will not be as soft, so you decide how you like your cookies.
Use your cookie cutters and cut the dough. Place the cookies on the cookie sheets. Bake for 10-15 minute, depending on the size and thickness of your cookies. My 1/4-inch cookies need 15 minutes to bake.
Let them cool on wire racks or the cookie sheets before removing them to frost. It's time to make the cream cheese frosting!

The Best Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream the butter and cream cheese in a medium-sized bowl.
Add the powdered sugar and vanilla.
Mix until it's creamy and fluffy. Frost the cookies.
Place the uneaten cookies in the refrigerator because the cookies have cream cheese frosting on them.

How to Store Sugar Cookies?

Once you’ve made these unfrosted Sugar Cookies, you may wonder how to store them. If you want to keep them fresh for around a week, wait until they’ve reached room temperature and then put them in an airtight container. If they are frosted with cream cheese frosting, they must be refrigerated.

How Long Do Sugar Cookies Stay Fresh?

It’s common for sugar cookies to stay fresh for 3-4 weeks. However, I’ve never seen one last that long. In my home, sugar cookies are gobbled up so quickly that I seldom worry about how long they’ll stay fresh, which I’m grateful for.

Why Do My Sugar Cookies Spread?

The sugar cookie isn’t supposed to spread, but sometimes it does! Cookies spread because there is too much flour in the dough. It’s also best to wait until the cookie dough is chilled; this helps it bake better!

Can I Freeze Decorated Sugar Cookies?

Go ahead and freeze sugar cookies BEFORE you decorate them. They’ll taste fresher this way! Sugar cookie dough can also be easily frozen, so remember this as you make your cookie dough this year.

Final Word

The best cookies are homemade cookies. These Frosted Sugar Cookies are just so soft and chewy. I hope you enjoy making them with your family. I aim to help you create memories, one recipe at a time. May God bless this world, Linda.

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