Holiday Sugar Cookie Recipe
These sugar cookies are soft and perfect for the holiday season.
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup Vegetable oil
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp water
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 5 1/2 cup bread flour
Frosting
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup milk
Holiday Decorations
- 1 package mini M&M's
- 1 tube black icing
Instructions
Cookie Dough
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, vegetable oil, sugar, powdered sugar, and water. Add in eggs and lemon juice. Mix until combined.
- Slowly add in flour mixture until combined.
- Roll the dough into 2 inch sized balls onto a nonstick cookie sheet.
- Add the rough edge by dipping the bottom of a glass into regular sugar and flatten the cookie. The cookie should be about 1/2 an inch thick.
- Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes.
- Cool on a rack before icing.
Buttercream Icing
- Cream together the butter and powdered sugar.
- Add the vanilla and milk. Cream together until smooth.
Holiday Decorations
- Add black icing and mini M&M's to cookie
Shaped Sugar Cookies
- You can use this recipe to make sugar cookies into shapes. I made them about 1/2 inch thick and baked them for 7 minutes.