These sugar cookie recipes include rolled cutouts, soft frosted rounds, raspberry dough, brown sugar cookies and two lemon finishes. Choose the shape and decoration style first: not every dough is meant for a cutter, and not every icing dries on the same schedule.
Cutout cookies need even rolling and chilled dough, while scoop-and-flatten cookies use a different method. The meringue-powder icing has a longer drying stage than a simple lemon glaze. Cream cheese frosting also changes storage needs compared with uniced cookies.
Sugar Cookie Recipes for Cutouts
These two doughs are rolled evenly and cut into shapes before baking.
1. Cut Out Sugar Cookie Recipe with Vanilla and Easy Icing
A vanilla butter dough is chilled in discs before rolling and cutting. A milk-and-corn syrup icing is spread over cold cookies and allowed to set before stacking.
2. Cutout Sugar Cookie Recipe with Meringue-Powder Icing
This cutout dough chills before rolling, with a short extra chill if the shapes soften. A meringue-powder icing decorates the cookies and needs its own drying time.
Soft and Frosted Sugar Cookies
Choose a creamy frosting over a chilled dough or a sour cream-based cookie.
3. Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting
A chilled butter dough is rolled and cut before baking. Cream cheese frosting is spread over the fully cooled cookies, which are refrigerated after decoration.
4. Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Sour cream goes into a dough that chills before being scooped and lightly flattened. A separate cream cheese frosting adds a soft finish after cooling.
5. Easter Sugar Cookie Recipe with Sour Cream Buttercream
Sour cream, butter and oil form a dough portioned and pressed with a glass. Vanilla buttercream and optional sprinkles finish the cold cookies.
Flavored Sugar Cookies
Jam, brown sugar and lemon bring different flavors without elaborate shape work.
6. Raspberry Sugar Cookies with Jam and Cinnamon Sugar
Seedless raspberry jam is mixed into the dough rather than used as a filling. Chilled portions receive a light cinnamon sugar coating before baking.
7. 3 Ingredient Brown Sugar Cookies with Salted Butter
Salted butter, brown sugar and flour make a short dough without added egg. Small portions are flattened and baked, then left to firm before storage.
8. Lemon Sugar Cookies with Fresh Zest and Powdered Sugar
Lemon juice and zest flavor a chilled sugar cookie dough. The portions are rolled in powdered sugar before baking rather than covered with a separate wet glaze.
9. Glazed Lemon Sugar Cookies
Small lemon cookies are baked and cooled before a juice-and-powdered sugar glaze is drizzled over them. Let the glaze lose its tackiness before stacking.
Before You Choose Your Recipe
Allow cookies to cool completely before decorating, and read the icing instructions before planning to stack or pack them. Keep rolling flour separate from the dough measure. For decorated batches, give yourself time for both tray baking and the specified setting stage.
