Drop Sugar Cookies, All-Time Family Favorite

Drop Sug­ar cook­ies are soft, chewy, melt-in-your-mouth sug­ar cook­ie per­fec­tion! With­out even the slight­est hes­i­ta­tion, I can declare this to be our fam­i­ly’s all-time favorite Christ­mas sug­ar cook­ie recipe. 

If you polled them, it would­n’t be just a wide major­i­ty. I believe you would get a 100% affir­ma­tive from each of them! These sug­ar cook­ies are that good! 

Frost­ed Drop Sug­ar Cook­ies are the first cook­ies to dis­ap­pear out of all that I make each year. (Even the ones I hide. lol)

My Drop Sug­ar Cook­ie recipe is the one every­body wants more of. That every­one wants the recipe for. That are most often request­ed for parties.

They also hap­pen to be about the eas­i­est cook­ie I make. What’s bet­ter than that? 

Wan­na know a secret? I make these all year round, not just for Christ­mas. Yeah…they’re that kind of easy and delicious!

Enjoy, my friend! 

The Ingredients

For the Cookies:

• But­ter I use salt­ed but­ter, but use your own pref­er­ence. It does­n’t seem to affect the out­come of this drop sug­ar cook­ie recipe.
• Gran­u­lat­ed Sugar
• Eggs
• Vanil­la Extract
• All Pur­pose Flour
• Bak­ing Soda
• Salt

For the Frosting:

• But­ter
• Vanil­la Extract
• Milk
• Pow­dered Sug­ar (con­fec­tion­er’s sugar)

FAQ’s

No Need for Rolling and Cutting

It was so impor­tant to me to stress that you can still have fun and nice­ly dec­o­rate these deli­cious, soft and chewy sug­ar cookies.

If you don’t have the tools or patience for rolled and cut-out sug­ar cook­ies, you can still cre­ate won­der­ful dec­o­rat­ed cook­ie designs.

Last year, before our fam­i­ly Christ­mas Eve get-togeth­er, my daugh­ters, daugh­ter-in-law and grand­daugh­ters all got togeth­er at my house for a sug­ar cook­ie bak­ing and dec­o­rat­ing party. 

You guys! It was so much fun and hope­ful­ly the begin­ning of a new hol­i­day tradition. 

With just a basic but­ter­cream recipe, these soft and chewy sug­ar cook­ies can be frost­ed and dec­o­rat­ed to fit any occa­sion. We used but­ter knives or icing spat­u­las to sim­ply spread the frost­ing over the tops of the cookies. 

Then with some pip­ing bags and half a dozen of the most com­mon dec­o­ra­tor tips, some mini M&Ms and var­i­ous Christ­mas cook­ie and cake sprin­kles, we set to dec­o­rat­ing our sug­ar cookies. 

I think every­body had great ideas and I love how var­ied the designs were. From the youngest to the old­est, every­body just cre­at­ed what made them hap­py. I think they turned out great!

And what a fun fam­i­ly time we had doing it! You guys have to plan a drop sug­ar cook­ie dec­o­rat­ing par­ty, this year! It’ll be a blast!

How to Make Frosted Drop Sugar Cookies

There’s no big secret to these deli­cious cook­ies. It’s the basic cook­ie for­mu­la, again. 

1. Cream the but­ter and sugar. 
2. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. 
3. Add the dry ingre­di­ents and mix until every­thing is ful­ly incorporated.
4. Drop them by the cook­ie-scoop­ful onto greased or lined cook­ie sheets. 
5. Bake 8 to 10 min­utes. The trick­i­est part of the whole recipe will be fig­ur­ing out the time for your spe­cif­ic oven. (When I’m fig­ur­ing that out, I’ll bake one sug­ar cook­ie, just to get a feel for how the dough acts in my oven.) 

How to Know When the Cookies are Done

These cook­ies will puff up in the oven, the tops will have lost their dampness. 

When you touch one, light­ly, with your fin­ger, the top of the cook­ie will feel dry, but you will be able to tell it’s still super soft in the mid­dle. That’s when you pull them out of the oven. Trust me.

Set the cook­ie sheet right on your cool­ing rack for sev­er­al min­utes. The cook­ies will fin­ish “bak­ing” and set­ting up. 

As they cool, they will lose there puffi­ness and be flat­ter. The tops may even look a lit­tle “wrin­kled”.

You’ve done every­thing per­fect­ly. That’s exact­ly how they should be. After 3 or 4 min­utes trans­fer the cook­ies to a cool­ing rack to fin­ish cooling.

Decorating Sugar Cookies

When they are com­plete­ly cool, these scrump­tious sug­ar cook­ies are soft and chewy. 

You can get as elab­o­rate or as sim­ple as you want with your decorating. 

Sim­ply spread the frost­ing over the sug­ar cook­ie tops and call it good. That’s what we do when it isn’t Christmastime.

Or break out the pip­ing bags, can­dy and sprin­kles to cre­ate your own beau­ti­ful sug­ar cook­ie masterpieces.

How­ev­er you decide to dec­o­rate them, you my friend, are going to get the title of Christ­mas Cook­ie Roy­al Bak­er when you put these out for friends and family. 

Yes. Be pre­pared for Christ­mas Cook­ie infamy. It belongs to you, now!

Much love and Mer­ry Christmas! 

As always, thanks so much for being great sup­port­ers and my favorite blog readers! 

If you do make drop sug­ar cook­ies using this recipe, i hope you’ll con­sid­er drop­ping by, again and leav­ing a com­ment on this post with a 5 star rating. 

Those 5 star rat­ings help oth­er read­ers find our recipes when they do search­es on Google. 

Thanks so much and hap­py baking!

The Recipe

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More Deliciously Easy Christmas Cookies and Desserts

• Spritz Cook­ies with Jam, from Wendy over at Wendy Polisi blog
• Easy Yule Log Recipe, from Lau­ra, at Lit­tle House Big Alaska
• Christ­mas Sand­wich Cook­ies, from Arlene, at Flour on My Face
• Rasp­ber­ry Jam Short­bread Cook­ies, from Lois, at Walk­ing on Sun­shine Recipes
• Fat Gin­ger­bread Man Cook­ies, from Lenny, at Fat Dad Foodie
• Choco­late Crin­kle Cook­ies.