Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies

Classic soft, vanilla-scented sugar cookies, perfect for giving as holiday gifts or keeping all to yourself.

Rolled Sugar Cookie Cutouts

Simple, tender sugar cookies, perfect for care packages and holiday gifts alike.

Flour Frosting (a.k.a. Ermine Frosting)

This beautiful vanilla frosting has a whipped cream–like flavor and texture that pairs just as well with devil's food as it does with strawberry cake.

Perfect Royal Icing

This easy royal icing recipe is perfect for decorating your sugar cookies. It dries glossy and firm, protecting your designs, whether for Christmas and the holidays or any other occasion, from smushing and smudging.

Classic Sugar Cookies Recipe | Cook the Book

The holidays are full of great cookies but no one cookie represents the season better than the sugar cookie.

Chewy Brown Sugar Cookies

Chewy and warm, with a crackly brown sugar crust, these sugar cookies take less than 30 minutes, start to finish.

E.L. Fudge-Style Chocolate and Vanilla Sandwich Cookies

With crisp and crunchy vanilla wafers sandwiching a dark-chocolate cream filling, these shortbread cookies taste as magical as if they'd been prepared by an elf. Of course, they can be made with whatever cookie cutters you have on hand, but when it comes to whipping up a batch of copycat E.L. Fudge, owl fudge cookies sound just about right.

Brown Butter Shortbread Cookies

Brown butter and toasted sugar make an extra-special batch of slice-and-bake shortbread cookies.

Confetti Cookies

These Confetti Cookies are made for unabashed sprinkles lovers. The teeny multicolored bits make their way into these chewy snickerdoodle inspired cookies by way of crunchy-sweet Birthday Cake Crumb and into the dough where they melt and tie dye the insides of these oversized cookies.

American Buttercream

This classic vanilla frosting is as easy as they come.