Soft Sugar Cookies
Dorothy Kern
Updated Sep 18, 2020
For your next sweat treat, keep things simple and enjoy a batch of classic cookies like this recipe for soft sugar cookies with icing. We made a few tweaks to the already delicious Pillsbury™ sugar cookie dough by adding an egg yolk and a little extra flour. The result makes these sugar cookies softer and lighter than the original recipe! These soft cookies pair deliciously with our easy recipe for homemade frosting and don’t require any rolling or shaping, just drop the dough and bake. It’s easy to make these cookies your own with the help of your favorite little bakers. Add some extra pizazz by adding food coloring to the frosting, colorful sprinkles, drizzle a little chocolate or just keep them sweet and simple without any extras.
Soft Sugar Cookies
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 55 min
- Ingredients 8
- Servings 12
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
Frosting
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons milk
- Candy sprinkles, if desired
Instructions
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Step1Place 1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury™ sugar cookie dough, 1 egg yolk, and 1/2 cup all-purpose flour in large bowl. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER COMBINING WITH EGG YOLK AND FLOUR.) Beat with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.
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Step2Scoop 2-tablespoon-size balls of cookie dough onto cookie sheets covered with silicone baking mats or cooking parchment paper. Refrigerate dough balls 15 minutes. Heat oven to 350°F.
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Step3Bake chilled cookies 12 to 14 minutes or until light brown. Cool completely before frosting.
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Step4In medium bowl, beat 3 tablespoons softened butter, 3 cups powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed. Add milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, until desired frosting consistency. Frost cookies. Decorate with sprinkles. Store loosely covered at room temperature.
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Nutrition
330
Calories
10g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
58g
Total Carbohydrate
44g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 330
- Calories from Fat
- 90
- Total Fat
- 10g
- 15%
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- 20%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 25mg
- 9%
- Sodium
- 150mg
- 6%
- Potassium
- 15mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 58g
- 19%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 44g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 3 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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