The BEST Vanilla Sugar Cookie Recipe

Everyone loves cookies, right? I’m seriously a cookie fanatic! I love them all, chocolate chip, chocolate chocolate, snickerdoodles, peanut butter, macarons, macaroons, shortbread, danish butter cookies, etc.. But what about sugar cookies? It’s always confused me that there are so many variations of sugar cookies! There are rolled out and cut and frosted sugar cookies (classic holiday), there are flattened with a cup and frosted sugar cookies (swig or lofthouse), and there are these: classic, sweet, soft, with an outside crunch of deliciousness sugar cookies.

These are seriously my new go to treats. SO quick and easy, fulfilling all that I’m looking for when I’m craving something sweet. Once I finalized which recipe I liked best (there were like 4 variations until I was happy) I tried rolling them in sugar and then rolling them in VANILLA SUGAR before squishing and baking. NO DOUBT they are good cookies rolled in regular sugar, even in sugar crystals, but OH MY WORD they are DIVINE in the vanilla sugar (and so pretty with the flecks of vanilla beans)

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The BEST vanilla Sugar Cookie Recipe

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

12 mins

Total Time

22 mins

 

These sugar cookies are rolled in vanilla sugar before being baked and they taste

Course: cookies, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: homemade sugar cookies, sugar cookies, vanilla sugar cookies

Servings: 35 cookies

Calories: 117 kcal

Author: Ashlee Marie

Ingredients

• 1/2 C butter
• 1/2 C shortening
• 1 C granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 1/4 C all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• 2/3 C vanilla sugar

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy
3. add egg and vanilla, mix well
4. combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt - add to the butter mixture

5. shape into 1 inch balls, roll in the vanilla sugar, flatten with glass

6. Bake for 11-13 mins

Recipe Video

Kay, what are you waiting for? run to the kitchen and break out a batch of these bad boys! oh and I’d love to hear, what is YOUR favorite cookie? Clearly I need a few more cookie recipes to add to my cookie rotation!

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Ashlee Marie

CEO at Ashlee Marie Cakes

Ashlee Prisbrey is a self taught cake decorator and home chef turned blogger turned youtuber. On her blog and youtube channel she shares cake decorating tutorials, from scratch recipes, and themed party food (cause for her parties are all about the food). In addition to blogging and videos she travels around the country speaking at blog conferences. Last year she competed on Food Network, the Halloween Baking championship, a dream come true! Ashlee loves empowering women and moms, in the kitchen, in blogging or in life. Her motto is nothing is too hard with the right tips and tricks.

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