Chewy, simple sugar cookies come collectively in a snap with zero chilling, rolling out, or slicing required. Make these cookies additional colourful and enjoyable by including nonpareil sprinkles or sandwiching them with buttercream frosting. 

I’m a self-professed sugar cookie connoisseur. I’ll take ’em frosted, cut-out, rolled in sugar, tender, chewy, crispy, or straight out of the plastic container from the bakery part at Walmart.

What I’m saying is that I’m pretty obsessive about sugar cookies and I’m actually not very choosy about them.

Wait, possibly that makes me much less of a connoisseur and extra of a human sugar cookie rubbish disposal. Whatevs.

Whereas I do admire a phenomenal sugar cookie full with royal icing, I’m extra of a buttercream sort of woman. And I’m impatient. It’s why I like no-chill sugar cookies once I do need to make cut-outs.

And I’m undoubtedly not fancy, so these simple sugar cookies are completely my factor. They arrive collectively in lower than 10 minutes with on a regular basis substances that I’m betting you have got in your fridge and pantry proper now.

Enjoyable and colourful simple sugar cookies

This simple sugar cookie recipe is ideal for a number of causes.

First, there’s no chilling, rolling, or cookie cutters require, so that they’re tremendous fast and easy to whip up.

All you must do is combine up the dough, roll the dough into little dough balls and bake them up! Straightforward peasy.

Additionally they bake up completely chewy. So in case you love chewy cookies, like my chewy lemon sugar cookies or white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, you’ll love these.

And at last, there are such a lot of methods you may change them as much as make them much more enjoyable.

I like mixing colourful nonpareil sprinkles proper into the dough for a enjoyable pop of coloration. The nonpareils additionally add an excellent crunchy texture to the cookies. Use completely different coloured sprinkles primarily based on the vacation or event!

Roll them in sugar for a glittery end, or sandwich or prime them with my easy buttercream frosting. 

Are you bought but? These are sure to be your go-to simple sugar cookies, particularly if in case you have children or grandkids who like to bake with you.

In case you’re searching for extra easy cookie recipes like these simple sugar cookies, make sure you take a look at my no-bake cookies and m&m cookies!

Find out how to make my simple sugar cookies

This recipe is nice for making with children. They’ll love serving to you combine and roll the dough into balls, and I do know they’ll adore the colourful sprinkles. 

And because you don’t have to sit back the dough, it’s the right recipe for impatient kiddos (and impatient adults!). 

Substances you’ll want

To make the cookie dough, you have to:

• 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon superb sea salt
• 1 cup room-temperature unsalted butter
• 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
• 1 giant egg
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

All of those are fairly commonplace substances in most of my cookie recipes, so that you in all probability have already got them available. 

Earlier than you begin baking, ensure that your butter is softened to room temperature. In case you forgot to set it out forward of time, take a look at my suggestions for softening butter shortly.

Additionally, you will need to ensure you know how one can measure flour accurately. This may assist your sugar cookies to end up good each time!

Along with primary substances for the cookie dough, there are just a few optionally available additions you can also make:

• 3 tablespoons nonpareil sprinkles, for including to the dough
• ½ cup granulated sugar, for rolling the dough balls earlier than baking
• vanilla buttercream frosting, for frosting or turning the cookies into cookie sandwiches

Once more all of these are optionally available, however they’re nice, simple methods to make these cookies much more enjoyable and scrumptious.

Making this recipe

These sugar cookies are simple as 1-2-3 to make.

Begin by whisking collectively the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set these dry substances apart.

Now, cream collectively the butter and sugar till gentle and fluffy. This may take about 3-5 minutes with an electrical mixer. In case you aren’t certain what to search for, be taught how one can cream butter and sugar. 

Add within the egg and the vanilla. Combine till properly mixed, then slowly add the dry substances, mixing till simply mixed.

If you’re utilizing the nonpareil sprinkles, add them to the cookie dough now.

Use a small cookie scoop to create dough balls about 1 tablespoon every. Roll the dough into clean balls and place them onto lined baking sheets about 2 inches aside.

If you’d like, you can too roll the dough balls in granulated sugar earlier than putting them on the cookie sheets. This may make for a glittery end, however will even make the ultimate cookies a bit sweeter.

Bake the cookies at 375°F for Sep 11 minutes, till the facilities are simply set. They are going to be puffy after they come out of the oven, however will fall and crinkle as they cool. 

Let the sugar cookies cool on the baking sheets for a couple of minutes earlier than shifting them to a wire rack to chill fully. As soon as they’ve absolutely cooled, you may add buttercream frosting in case you need. 

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