Let’s start the year off with the most delicious frosted soft sugar cookies. The kind you can sink your teeth into and it feels like you are biting into sweet little pillows of sugar and vanilla.
I made some of them for my Christmas Eve Party after I realized all of my treats included peanuts or peanut butter and my niece wouldn’t be able to have any because of her allergies. So I thought I would try a sugar cookie recipe from my friend Maria’s [1] cookbook, Two Peas and Their Pod [2], that I had been coveting. And oh my gosh… these cookies are now on my must make list forever. I usually make cutout sugar cookies for decorating, but didn’t want to go to all that trouble for a last minute Christmas addition, so I just frosted these and sprinkled them with green sanding sugar for the evening. And over the next few days, every time I would eat another cookie, all I could say is how freaking good they were, so I decided to make them again for you guys here on the blog. I just dressed them up a bit and turned them into frosty little snowmen and now I love them even more.
The dough is soft and luxurious. I scooped the dough out and placed on a parchment lined cookie sheet.
After that roll them into balls and press them flat (but still thick) with the bottom of a glass sprayed with oil and dipped in sugar to keep the glass from sticking to the dough.
Sidenote: Make sure you press them instead of leaving them scooped or rolled. I tried baking a scooped shape and it just did not look very cute.
These only bake for about 8 minutes. No more. And you’ll end up with the softest texture.
They’re a little round blank canvas for decorating with buttercream or sprinkles or you can even just leave them blank. You won’t be disappointed.
The recipe makes about 24, but you can double it if you like. And I would highly recommend that if you think you’ll give any away to friends or family.
But since I like to break out the cute over here on the site, let’s breakdown how I turned these into frosty little snowman faces.
Whip up the buttercream frosting and use a small cookie scoop to place some right on top of a cookie.
Gently turn the cookie over and roll it around in a dish of sanding sugar to coat. Be gentle here and press with your hand flat because they could break easily if you press the wrong way. They are that soft.
Once coated in sanding sugar, you can use your hand to help shape the frosting into a pretty mound.
Then add sprinkles for facial features. Start with pink confetti sprinkles for cheeks, black sugar pearls for eyes, black jimmies for a big smile and then orange coated sunflower seeds for a carrot nose.
Make sure to frost and decorate as you go and insert the sprinkles enough so they stick.
Snow cute!!!!
And even more delicious. I gave these away to several people and more than one came back to say they were amazing or the best sugar cookies they’ve had. I agree.
Easy Frosted Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Sugar Cookies
Frosting
Instructions
Notes
They make me smile … hope they’ll make you smile, too.
Enjoy!
Here’s the link to Maria’s book [2] on Amazon and also a link to a recent post where I made her Biscoff Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies [3].
URLs in this post:
[1] my friend Maria’s: https://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com
[2] Two Peas and Their Pod: https://www.amazon.com/Two-Peas-Their-Pod-Cookbook/dp/1538730138
[3] Biscoff Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies: https://www.bakerella.com/biscoff-oatmeal-sandwich-cookies/