Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe

These Christmas Sugar Cookies are soft and buttery, keep their shape while baking AND everyone loves them. The best part? No big mixer needed!

If you’re looking for a great sugar cookie recipe, whether you’re decorating or not, then this is the recipe for you!

What are sugar cookies made out of?

Simple ingredients you’ll find in your kitchen! You’ll be relieved to know there are no weird ingredients in this recipe. You’re just 5 ingredients away from the best sugar cookies of your life!

Butter ✓ Sugar ✓ Pure vanilla extract ✓ Egg ✓ Flour ✓

How do you get sugar cookies to keep their shape?

What sets this recipe apart from the rest is using only a little baking powder and no baking soda. During testing, we found too much of those two rising ingredients made for puffy sugar cookies that lost their shape while baking from puffing up too much. Also, we chill the dough before rolling so that after you’ve cut them out, they’re easier to lift off of your bench and arrange onto your baking sheet, maintaining their shape while baking.

Perfect shaped cookies every single time!

Once they’re baked, you can decorate them with royal icing, a spread of Nutella, a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar, or whatever you like! Now, because I don’t know the first thing about decorating, my beautiful friend and professional baker Di decorated these cookies with royal icing, edible cachous or pearls and glitter.