The BEST Easy and Chewy Sugar Cookie Recipe
Looking for the BEST easy and chewy sugar cookie recipe?! These soft sugar cookies will pretty much just dissolve in your mouth & they're perfect for decorating.
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Servings: 24 Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks, slightly softened)
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 1 large egg + 1 yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Extra granulated sugar for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar together on low speed for about 2-3 minutes.
- While butter & sugar are creaming, use a separate bowl and lightly whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together. Set aside.
- Scrape the sides of the bowl with the butter & sugar. Mix in egg + yolk & vanilla, just until combined.
- Gradually add in the flour mixture to the wet ingredients until fully combined.
- Roll into dough balls, roll dough balls into sugar, and set them on the pan until you've got your traditional dozen on the pan.
- Bake for 8 minutes at 375.
- Remove from oven, allow to cool on the pan for a couple of minutes, and then remove from the pan onto a cooling rack.
- Repeat with remaining dough for another 12 cookies.
Notes
No, you don't need to chill this dough! As long as your butter isn't too soft, the dough won't spread.
If you want to make the dough ahead of time, though, you absolutely can - wrap the dough tightly in plastic wrap and then store in the fridge for up to 3 days. Set dough on counter for a while to allow it to warm up a little bit before rolling out and baking.
Want to decorate these cookies with frosting? This is my FAVORITE buttercream. Tastes delicious and hardens up well!