Easy Sugar Cookies

A closeup of a pile of sugar cookies on a white plate.

If you are craving a cookie to knock your socks off, look no further than these Easy Sugar Cookies. They seriously are the BEST sugar cookies around! An easy, made-from-scratch recipe that any level baker can prepare with excellent results. They're the perfect combination of crisp edges and soft inside!

Course Cookies

Cuisine American

Keyword easy sugar cookie recipe, soft sugar cookies, sugar cookies

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 15

Total Time 25

Servings cookies

Calories 171kcal

Author Jennifer

Equipment

1 Small Cookie Scoop

Ingredients

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup SALTED butter, softened 2 sticks
1 ¼ cup granulated sugar
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup granulated sugar for rolling

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Set aside.
Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and baking powder in a medium size bowl. Set aside.
In a large bowl, using an electric or stand mixer, cream together the butter, and granulated sugar until combined.
Add egg yolks and vanilla extract.
Add flour mixture and mix until just combined. DO NOT OVERMIX!
Using a cookie scoop or ice cream scoop, scoop dough into balls about 2 Tablespoons each, roll in sugar and place onto prepared baking sheet.
Bake for 10-15 minutes or until tops of cookies start to crack. Let cool for 5 minutes on baking sheet before moving them to a wire rack. Let cool completely on wire rack.

Notes

Don’t Over-mix the Dough. With almost all my cookie recipes, I always make sure to remind you to not OVERMIX the cookie dough. When you mix the flour mixture into the wet ingredients, only mix them together until just combined…you should still see some flour in your mixing bowl.

Scoop the Perfect Cookie: I always use a 1 Tablespoon cookie scoop and each cookie dough ball uses “2 scoops” of cookie dough to make a cookie dough ball with two tablespoons of dough. In my opinion, this is the perfect-sized cookie. If you don’t have a cookie scoop, you can use an ice cream scooper but you will only need one ice cream scoop of cookie dough.

Add Some Color. Roll the sugar cookies in colored sugar sprinkles before baking. This can be fun when baking them for holidays or special occasions.

Use Room Temperature Butter. It will mix into the sugar much better when it's at room temperature. Just make sure it's not too warm, an hour at room temperature will do.

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