Mom’s Melt-In-Your-Mouth Sugar Cookies
These are my Mom’s Melt-In-Your-Mouth Sugar Cookies, and they’re the best Christmas cookie! Soft, delicate and so delicious!
If you’re looking for a sugar cookie that really does melt in your mouth, this is it! These cookies are rich and so flavourful, they’ll quickly become a favourite! There’s a reason this recipe is one of my site’s most popular recipes! For me, the holidays just don’t feel like the holidays without these delectable little treats.
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Melt-in-Your-Mouth Delicious!
You may have your own family recipe, but today I’ll share mine! Just in case you need a new recipe to add to your recipe box! These sugar cookies really are soft and melt-in-your-mouth good. And um, they’re very low-cal. Yes. Yes they are…at least that’s what I tell myself this time of year… 😉
Perfect for gift giving and sharing!
Who doesn’t love to receive homemade cookies during the holiday season?! These pretty (and delicious) cookies make a great gift. Wrap them up in some festive parchment paper, and gift them to friends, family, neighbours or teachers. They’re also great for potlucks.
Sugar Cookie Recipe Tips
- Flour: Use all-purpose flour.
- Powdered Sugar: Also called confectioner’s or icing sugar.
- Cream of Tartar: If you don’t have this, you can use an equal amount of baking powder instead.
- Refrigerate the dough before baking. Make sure to do this. This cookie doughs needs at least 1 hour cooling time for best baking.
- Toppings: For these cookies I used edible sparkle sprinkles (add them after the cookies have baked and cooled). You could use regular sprinkles or even coarse sugar instead.
- Is this a good recipe for frosting? I don’t think so because the cookies are so delicate.
- Is this a good recipe for cut outs? No. This is a drop cookie and the batter will not roll easily for cookie cutting. If you’re looking for a recipe for cut outs, this one is great!
- Storage: Keep these cookies in an airtight container.
- Freezing: These cookies freeze well after they are baked. I have not frozen the dough, so I’m not sure how that would work, but I would definitely try it…I don’t see why it wouldn’t freeze well.
Mom’s Melt-In-Your-Mouth Sugar Cookies
These are my Mom’s Melt-In-Your-Mouth Sugar Cookies, and they’re the best Christmas cookie! Soft, delicate and so delicious!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Chilling Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Yield: 24 cookies 1x
- Category: Cookie
- Method: Baking
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (at room temperature)
- 1 cup vegetable oil (or canola)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 4 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- With an electric mixer cream together the butter, oil and sugars.
- Add the eggs, one at a time. Then add the vanilla. Mix until nice and fluffy.
- In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, salt, cream of tartar and baking soda.
- Add the flour mix to the butter mix, and combine until fluffy.
- Chill dough in the fridge for at least 1 hour or longer.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- When ready to bake, drop the batter by the tablespoons onto the cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes, making sure not to let them brown.
- Let the cookies cool on a wire rack.
- If you like you can decorate your cookies! Depending on the type of sprinkles you decide to decorate with, you can sprinkle them on before you bake them. The sprinkles I used here are too delicate for baking so I sprinkled them on after.
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Happy baking!
do you use plain flour or self rising flour
Hi Trisha! I just use plain flour! Happy Baking!
These are sooo good! My search for the perfect sugar cookie is over. Have you ever tried to freeze the dough? If so, any tips? Thanks!
Hands down the best cookie I have ever tasted! I made these to bring to my daughters room when she has her baby girl, and I am sure all who taste them will love them and want the recipe. Thx.
Yay! I’m so happy that you enjoyed them! They really are delicious aren’t they!
OMG !!!!!!! just made these Melt in your mouth sugar cookies for my Dept. carry in .they are Outstanding ……Thanks for such a great sugar cookie ….
Yay! This makes me so happy…I’m glad you liked them!
What if you eliminate the cream of tartar, does is make a huge difference
I tried this recipe and did not like it!! I don’t kno where I went wrong or what! But I think it’s too much oil because there was oil sitting on top of the cookie dough. THEN I put the my dough on the cookie sheet, with parchment paper, they started to spread and oil coming out the cookie while baking!! Idk but I probably won’t make again
Oh that is strange, I have never had that happen and I’ve made them dozens and dozens of times.
Best sugar cookie recipe – I chilled out hem for about 4 hours andI flattened with parchment paper and added sprinkles – love them
I’m so thrilled you love them Maureen!
FANTASTIC recipe!! I will use this one again and again. Thank you!
I’m so happy you enjoyed them Joyce!
I have to admit, I wasn’t sure how these were going to turn out when I saw the consistency of the cookie dough when I was finished putting the ingredients together. But after chilling the dough and baking, I have found my husband’s and my new favorite cookie!! Just eating these plain is even awesome…light texture and not too sweet. This is being added to my recipe collection. Thank you for sharing!!
Oh that is fantastic, I’m so happy you enjoyed them!
Can this dough be used in cookie press?
I have never tried this so, I’m not really sure! Let me know if you do, and how it turns out!