Soft Sugar Cookie
With crisp edges and soft centers, these sugar cookies are absolutely delightful. The taste lies somewhere between a traditional sugar cookie and a short bread cookie and they can work well with or without icing.
Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 10 minutes mins
Total Time 30 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
- 1 Cup Unsalted Butter
- 1 Cup Granulated Sugar
- 2 Large Eggs
- 4 Cups All-Purpose Flour
- 3/4 Cup Cornstartch
- 1 Tsp salt
- 1 1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit
Using a mixer paddle, cream together butter and sugar until combined
Mix the eggs into the butter/sugar mixture
In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, and salt until combined
Mix the flour mixture into the liquid mixture, let the mixer continue for about 5 minutes or until the dough gathers into a ball that pulls away from the bowl
Mix in Vanilla
Roll out dough between two sheets of parchment until about 1/3 inch thickness
Cut into shapes and bake for approximately 10 minutes**
- When adding the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, the mixture will seem a little sandy at first but it will come together
- These cookies will fully bake without having too much color on them
- Smaller cookies will finish cooking faster, the 10 minutes works well for the large cookies that were made from this recipe
Keyword cookies, sugar cookies