Day 3 of my 12 days of cookies: Soft sugar cookies. You know those Lofthouse cookies with pink icing and colorful sprinkles that you find at the grocery store? Well, I’ve been trying to recreate them for some time. Who knew that it’d be so hard to create such a simple cookie? It’s actually more of a cake-like cookie that’s tough enough to stay in one piece without crumbling.
The secret ingredient? Sour cream. Bloody brilliant. Sour cream is what makes cakes moist and fluffy, so why can’t it do the same with cookies? Duhhhhh. I think these cookies are the best the day after since it’s had time to sit a while and come together. As for the frosting, I still have yet to find a good frosting recipe, so this one’s just tinted store bought frosting. Guilty, I know. But sometimes, you can’t just beat store bought. Recipe slightly adapted from The Girl Who Ate Everything. Thanks so much for this little treasure!
The original recipe says to roll out the dough and use cookie cutters, but it’s really impossible to do that since the dough is so sticky. The dough has the same consistency as really thick cake batter, so you can only imagine how difficult it would be to roll it out. I used the most versatile tools in the kitchen to form the cookies– my hands! Just roll pieces into balls and squish! Beware.. this recipe makes A LOT! I halved the recipe and it still made just over two dozen cookies.
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 6 cups flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Combine sour cream, sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla. Mix well.
- Add dry ingredients (flour, baking powder & soda, salt) to the wet batter until everything is just incorporated. Chill the dough for about 20 minutes or until firm.
- Roll the dough into balls and then flatten with your hands into a circular shape.
- Bake until LIGHT golden brown-no more than 10 minutes. When you take them out they will seem underdone but aren’t. Let them cool on the pan and they will be perfect and moist.
Gorgeous photos–I love the colors. Nine more days to go.
Tiffany
Is the recipe for the frosting somewhere in your blog too?? It looks just like the Lofthouse frosting!!!
Pretty!
Hi. Can you add the amount of cookies that the recipes produce? Thanks.
anon- thanks!!
kathleen- i said that i used a canned frosting for this in my post… i have yet to find a good frosting recipe. i’m still on the search, though!
blog- thanks!
anon- yes, i stated in this post that halving it makes just over 2 dozen.. so the original recipe would make at least 4 dozen cookies..
Cute cookies!I love the colors. 🙂
I tried this recipe off her blog before and had no luck with it. The cookies came out tasteless and I wound up tossing the dough. I’m glad you were able to get good results.
Yay I’m glad you’re doing 12 days of cookies again.
These are so cute and festive- can’t go wrong with pink frosting and sprinkles!