Best Soft Cutout Cookies

You know what I hate? Biting into a cookie that LOOKS soft together with hearing that loud CRUNCH. These, are non that cookie. They are, inwards fact, the best soft cutout cookies.

They’re only the correct amount of soft – together with brand the perfect base of operations for whatever type of decoration. Soooo fifty-fifty though I made mine fall-themed (cus, obvi 🍁) y'all tin forcefulness out alter these upward for whatever season/occasion.

Use whatever cookie cutters y'all wish – kittens, hearts, stars, etc. You tin forcefulness out fifty-fifty role a drinking drinking glass to cutting out circles if y'all don’t receive got cookie cutters. Sprinkle some cinnamon + saccharide on locomote yesteryear if frosting isn’t your affair (see adorable cinnamon-sugar owl above).

Want to know a ‘lil undercover most these cookies? You tin forcefulness out brand the dough together with refrigerate it for 24 hours or y'all tin forcefulness out FREEZE THAT BABY for upward to ii months if y'all wish to last the holiday-cookie-prep-master. Um, yeah please 🖐🏻

Want to know another ‘lil undercover most these amazing cookies? Use this nutrient coloring to acquire amazing color payoff. Be careful non to acquire it on your wearing clothing though – learned that ane the difficult way.

I’m def going to whip upward some other batch of these for Halloween – no googly eyes required. Sprinkles, on the other hand, are e'er acceptable.

Recipe:

• 2 sticks of butter


• 1/2 loving cup brownish sugar


• 1/2 loving cup cane or granulated sugar


• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla


• 1 egg


• 3 cups flour


• 1/2 tsp baking powder

Frosting:

• 2 1/3 cups powdered sugar


• 5 TBS butter


• 4 ounces cream cheese


• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla


• Food coloring (we dear these ones because the color reward is amazing!)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Soften butter inwards microwave for most xx seconds – don’t melt it.  Cream the butter together with saccharide together inwards a mixing bowl. Add the egg together with vanilla together with mix. Add ane loving cup of flour at a time, together with mix betwixt each addition. Add the baking pulverization together with mix. The dough volition last crumbly, but y'all should last able to easily cast it into a ball. If it’s likewise dry, add together a few drops of H2O until it’s workable.

Chill dough for xx minutes. Roll dough out on a floured surface until it’s 1/4 inch thick. Don’t acquire inwards likewise sparse or the cookies volition burn/not last soft. Cut out cookies together with assemble the scraps dorsum into a ball. Roll out again, together with repeat this until all the dough has been used.

On a parchment newspaper lined baking sheet, lay out the cookie cutouts. Don’t position them likewise closed together, but y'all tin forcefulness out represent quite a few on a canvass since these cookies don’t spread much. Sprinkle them alongside cinnamon + saccharide or acquire out them naked if y'all wish to frost them later.

Bake cookies for 7-8 minutes. Let cool on cookie canvass v minutes, together with thus transfer to a cooling rack. Once the cookies are COMPLETELY cool, frost them!

For the frosting:

Add cream cheese together with butter to a mixing bowl, together with microwave for most xx seconds to soften. Cream that mixture together with and thus add together the powdered saccharide together with vanilla together with mix until combined. If y'all wish to brand multiple colors of frosting, dissever the white frosting into unlike bowls together with add together desired color to each bowl.

Yield: most 36-40 cookies (this depends on what size/shapes your cookie cutters are)

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Source: bluebowlrecipes.com