Grammy's Kitchen · Sugar Cookies · Soft Sugar Cookie
One of 28 sugar cookies recipes we measured
84 cooks on prettysimplesweet.com rate it 4.9★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 28.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 76% | 73% |
| total sugar | 88% | 83% |
| egg | 17% | 19% |
| leavener | 1% | 1% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 300 g | 2 1/2 cups (300g) all-purpose flour |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon fine salt |
| 227 g | 1 cup (2 sticks/227g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature |
| 130 g | 2/3 cup (130g) granulated sugar |
| 85 g | 3/4 cup (85g) powdered sugar |
| 50 g | 1 large egg |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
| 50 g | 1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar, for rolling |
Method: 5 steps, published by prettysimplesweet.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Baked for a grad party, they were entirely consumed by the teens, where brownies were leftover! I made each dough ball about 1" to 1 1/4" in diameter and rolled in sugar that I colored with food coloring. This made 48 cookies - since they can be placed so clos” — a cook, 5.0★
“Thank you so much!! I have been searching for decades for a soft sugar cookie recipe that tasted like the sugar cookies that my mother made when I was a little girl in the early 1970's. I made your recipe a couple of days ago, and as soon as I took a bite, I ” — a cook, 5.0★