Super Soft, Melt in Your Mouth, Sugar Cookie Recipe

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Do You Love Those Big, Fat, Pink Frosted, Lofthouse Sugar Cookies?

This sugar cookie recipe bakes up super soft. Follow my recipe and roll the dough thick and you'll get a soft, flaky sugar cookie that melts in your mouth.

These are my favorite cookies to make for Valentines Day because they turn out fat and cake-like, perfect for topping with lots of pink frosting and sprinkles.

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Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe 

Roll Them Thick For Cake-Like Cookies!

Mix:
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar

Add:
3 beaten eggs (or egg substitute)
1 tsp. vanilla

Sift and mix with sugar mixture:
3 cups flour
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground nutmeg

Roll dough on lightly floured surface and cut with a simple cookie cutter. I cut these cookies thick, about 1/2 inch. *This is a really soft dough, try not to add too much flour so your cookies will stay soft and moist.

Bake @ 425 for about 10 minutes or until lightly golden.

Basic Frosting Recipe 

Please See the Video Below for a Royal Icing Recipe and Tutorial

1/3 c. butter
3 c. powdered sugar
3 tbsp. cream or milk
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Beat together all ingredients until smooth.

*You can also add a little extra milk or cream to the recipe to thin it down into a glaze. This makes frosting really easy! Just turn the cookies upside down and dip in the glaze and let it roll down the sides or set cookies on a cooking rack and drizzle the glaze over the top. (Make sure you allow plenty of time for the glaze to dry before stacking.)

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Get Your Royal Icing Recipe on this Video

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Gwen Schoen shows us how to decorate sugar cookies. Video by Scott R. Craig. To see a higher resolution video, please visit http://videos.sacbee.com

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CherylK wrote...

I will have to try this recipe! I like crispy cookies but these sound yummy. Am going to add this as a Featured Lens on a new cookie lens that I'm creating. :-)

ReplyPosted May 16, 2009

Heather426 wrote...

sounds yummy! Now I know what I'm baking later.5*

ReplyPosted April 30, 2009

Intuitive wrote...

Amazing lens! I LOVE those Lofthouse cookies. I'm going to have to try this recipe. All the decorating ideas are great, too. I've put a link to this lens (and lensrolled it) on my Sugar Cookie Recipes lens and lensrolled it to my Cookie Presses, Molds and Stamps lens as well. 5*

ReplyPosted November 19, 2008

dlcummings wrote...

Nice lens! 5 stars! If you could visit my Baby Christmas Dress lens and please rate it, at http://www.squidoo.com/ChristmasBaby-Dress

ReplyPosted November 15, 2008

kathypi wrote...

thanks so much, great lens, christmas always gets me in the mood to bake, lense rolled to my christmas lenses, kathy

ReplyPosted November 12, 2008

rms wrote...

This delicious lens is being featured today at www.cabaretsquidoo.com!

ReplyPosted November 11, 2008

chefkeem wrote...

Blessed. Can I have a cookie now? :)

ReplyPosted November 04, 2008

beachbum_gabby wrote...

my favorite part in baking a cookie is decorating it. :)

ReplyPosted July 13, 2008

mulberry wrote...

Big and fluffy ones for me! Scruptions looking lens.

ReplyPosted July 11, 2008

WhippetTalk wrote...

Yummy! Love fresh sugar cookies. But Snickerdoodles are my absolute fave! 5*s for making me crave a cookie now!

ReplyPosted July 11, 2008

 
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