These Sour Cream Sugar Cookies are so tender and soft. This cake-like cookie is made rich with sour cream and butter and will so become a cookie staple recipe in your home. I guarantee it! Overnight refrigeration is required to make dough easy to roll and cut and helps the cookies hold their shape. I top mine with a delicious and ridiculously easy frosting & of course, add a little extra flare with sprinkles.
What makes these Sour Cream Sugar Cookies so delicious?
These soft sugar cookies with sour cream are great in flavor and in texture! I love them because they are melt in your mouth delicious. Why? Because I make them with all butter, no shortening! Shortening can cause cookies to get a weird aftertaste, in my opinion, and honestly I just think butter tastes better!
The sour cream in this recipe is also helping to create a rather soft and chewy cookie! Along with our leavening agents, the baking soda as well as the baking powder. All the ingredients in this recipe work well together to create the perfect sugar cookie!
Does the Sour Cream make the cookies taste sour?
Growing up I always made cut-out sugar cookies and they were good, but this Cookie recipe is my all time favorite. These old fashion sour cream sugar cookies are much lighter and stay moist thanks to the addition of the sour-cream.
I know it may seem strange to add a “sour” ingredient to a sweet cookie, but there’s nothing sour about these cookies. They are moist, delicious and hard to stop eating! These are my staple soft sugar cookie recipe with sour cream.
Can I cut these sugar cookies into any shape?
Yes! Of course! These cookies work well in any shape you want. The sour cream cut out sugar cookies are perfect in any size or shape!
I chose to cut them into large, round cookies. I actually just used the rim of the cup to cut them out. You could use any cookie cutters and turn them into any shape you want.
Same goes for the color of frosting and sprinkles! You can make those any color you want as well!
How to make the best Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
Prepare the dough. Cover and store in the fridge overnight!
Then, roll out the chilled dough and cut the cookies into preferred shape.
Place on a lined cookie sheet and bake!
Cool the sugar cookies completely before frosting!
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Sour Cream Sugar Cookie
Sour Cream Sugar Cookies are so tender and soft. This cake-like cookie is made rich with sour cream and butter and will so become a family favorite.S
Ingredients
Sugar Cookie Base
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups sour cream
- 5 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1-2 tablespoon milk
- Optional: food coloring
Instructions
For the Cookies:
- In an electric mixing bowl, beat together sugar and butter. Beat until smooth.
- Next, turn the mixer to a medium speed and add the eggs one at a time.
- Add the vanilla & sour cream and beat until smooth.
- In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet on a low speed, and mix just until incorporated. Dough will be sticky.
- Cover the bowl, and place the dough in the fridge overnight.
- When you are ready to roll out of the dough and bake the cookies, remove dough from fridge.
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Roll the dough out onto a floured surface, about 1/4 inch thickness.
- Cut cookies into desired shape and place on a lined cookie sheet.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges are golden brown.
- Cool completely before frosting.
For the Frosting:
- Combine all ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer using the whisk attachment. Whip until well combined.
- You can add more powdered sugar or milk to get the frosting to the consistency you like.
- If dying with food coloring, stir the food coloring in at the very end.
- Frost cookies and enjoy!
Notes
* If you don't want to make these cookies a 2 day project, allow the dough to chill in the fridge for at least 3 hours.
* No cookie cutters? No problem! I cut these cookies out using the rim of a plastic cup!
