BEST Sugar Cookie Recipe will literally MELT-in-your-MOUTH!

December 16, 2025
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This best sugar cookie recipes makes the absolute best cookie recipe you’ll ever make! These melt in your mouth sugar cookies are perfect for valentine’s day, Christmas, fall, or everyday!  Use this sugar cookie recipe for kids to cut out with their favorite cookie cutters and frost to their hearts content. These easy sugar cookies taste even better than they look!

This best sugar cookie recipes makes the absolute best cookie recipe you'll ever make! These melt in your mouth sugar cookies are perfect for valentine's day, Christmas, fall, or everyday!  Use this sugar cookie recipe for kids to cut out with their favorite cookie cutters and frost to their hearts content. These easy sugar cookies taste even better than they look!

I’m excited to share our family’s favorite sugar cookie recipe! It’s a bit of a secret, so let’s keep it between us. These cookies are absolutely amazing; they practically melt in your mouth! You can enjoy them frosted or if you prefer a little crunch, bake them a couple of minutes longer without frosting. We love them soft, paired with a sweet, slightly almond-flavored frosting. Trust me, they’re better than any cookies you’ll find at a bakery. Plus, they’re made with quality ingredients we can trust because they’re homemade! I can guarantee these sugar cookies will quickly become a cherished family favorite in your home too!

We have lots more yummy recipes to choose from including candy cane cookies, adorable Christmas Reindeer Cookies, pretty mint meltaway cookies, tasty easy peanut brittle, and cute checkerboard cookies Christmas.

cream together butter, powdered sugar, egg, vanilla and almond extract

melt in your mouth sugar cookies

Preheat oven to 375 F. Blend together powdered sugar, softened butter, egg, vanilla and almond extract.

mix in flour, baking powder, and cream of tartar

Next, stir in baking soda, cream of tartar, and flour.

You will have a dry dough. You can refrigerate for 2 hours if you want easier to handle dough and have the time. If not they can be rolled out right away.

roll out sugar cookies on powdered sugar sprinkled counter

best sugar cookies

Dust your counter with powdered sugar or flour. Using hands squish dough together and then place on prepared counter. Using rolling pin to roll out cookies – keeping dough nice and thick (1/4” thick) for soft cookies.

roll out sugar cookie recipe and use cookie cutters

easy sugar cookies

Cut out and place on cookie sheet or parchment paper lined cookie sheet. (Lining the cookie sheet will make clean up a cinch!)

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Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes for soft cookies, 10-12 minutes for crunchier cookies. Do not remove from cookie sheet until set (they may not look done at 8 minutes, but they are!)

cool cookies on rack and then decorate with homemade icing

Melt in your mouth sugar cookies

After 5-6 minutes carefully remove and put on wire racks to cool.

As they cool, whip up some homemade icing by mixing together 2 Tablespoons softened butter, 1/2 teas almond extract, and 3 cups powdered sugar. This will go on smooth and set up nicely to form a dry to touch smooth icing.

these sugar cookies melt in your mouth and have the best flavor

These sugar cookies when rolled out thick, only cooked for 8 minutes, and frosted are so soft they will melt in your mouth. They have the best flavor!!

best Christmas cookie recipe

Christmas Cookies Recipe

These cookies are fun to decorate and make the perfect cookie to bake with kids! Depending on what cookie cutters you use this recipe is perfect for Christmas, Easter, Valentines Day, St. Patrick’s Day, summer, fall, winter, spring, or for fun themed preschool units!

BEST Sugar Cookie Recipe

BEST Sugar Cookie Recipe

Beth Gorden
These sugar cookies are the absolute best cookie recipe you’ll ever make. They will melt in your mouth! These are the perfect Valentines Day, Christmas, or any day cookie recipe that will taste as good as they look!
4.41 from 5 votes
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Course Dessert
Cuisine American, christmas, cookies
Servings 3 dozen

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 cup softened butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375 F.
  • Blend together powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, almond extract, and egg.
  • Next, stir in baking soda, cream of tartar, and flour.
  • You will have a dry dough. You can refrigerate for 2 hours if you want easier to handle dough and have the time. If not they can be rolled out right away.
  • Dust your counter with powdered sugar or flour. Using hands squish dough together and then place on prepared counter. Using rolling pin to roll out cookies – keeping dough nice and thick (1/4” thick) for soft cookies. Cut out and place on cookie sheet or parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
  • Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes for soft cookies, 10-12 minutes for crunchier cookies. Do not remove from cookie sheet until set (they may not look done at 8 minutes, but they are!) After 5-6 minutes carefully remove and put on wire racks to cool.
  • To ice mix 2 TAB softened butter, 1/2 teas almond extract, and 3 cups powdered sugar. This will go on smooth and set up nicely to form a dry to touch smooth icing.
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  • Nothing says Christmas like a glass of best homemade eggnog! This holiday treat is super simple to make with our easy eggnog recipe. And if you think you don't like eggnog, you've never tried home made egg nog before! This eggnog recipe without alcohol is perfect for the whole family to enjoy! So try this DIY, non-alcoholic treat this December!
  • If you are looking for a delicious and fun breakfast idea for December, you will love these easy gingrbread waffles! This gingerbread waffle recipe is one of my kids favorite advent activities. I make these yummy waffles and then they get to decorate them with fruit, whip cream, chocolate chips, and other fun add-ons. Use this gingerbread recipe for a creative Christmas breakfast ideas the whole family will love!
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  • Get ready to impress your friends with the most adorable Christmas cookies ever! This super cute reindeer cookies recipe not only look fantastic, but they taste amazing too! With their soft, delicious peanut butter base, our Christmas Reindeer Cookies are the perfect treat for kids this December. Spread some holiday cheer with these festive delights!
  • Calling all cookie lovers! Who can resist a delicious cookie? Today, I’m excited to share one of my absolute favorites: Pastel Mint Chocolate Cookies! These beauties are not just tasty but also super fun to make. Picture this: melt-in-your-mouth chocolate cookies topped with colorful green, yellow, and pink mints. They are delightfully soft and bursting with minty goodness! Originally you had to buy the meltaway mints from Fannie Mae but now they sell generic versions on Amazon that taste just as good and are cheaper! This recipe has a special place in my heart because my mother-in-law makes them, and they've become a cherished family tradition. I can’t wait for you to try them out! I hope your family loves them as much as ours does!

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Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! With over 20 years educating children, she has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids alphabet, math, science, English grammar, history, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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  1. Thank you for your sugar cookie recipe. I will try to make them this year. Will let you know how they turn out. We used the packaged sugar cookie pouches this year in my classroom. The students loved it.

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