The Best Easy Chewy Sugar Cookies Ever Recipe (2024)

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The Best Easy Chewy Sugar Cookies Ever Recipe – chewy soft sugar cookies without any complicated steps, chilling, or rolling out – in just one bowl in under 20 minutes!

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Soft Pillowy Sugar Cookies

This is the best soft and chewy sugar cookie recipe – great hot out of the oven, cool with icing, or topped with cinnamon sugar! This is seriously my favorite easy sugar cookie recipe – they are soft, have a crunchy bottom, and a delicious buttery flavor.

These aren’t a cutout sugar cookie recipe – they are perfect, pretty, and pillowy soft sugar cookies. You don’t need to roll the dough, chill cookies, or even mix wet and dry ingredients separately. Just toss it all in one bowl and you’re on your way to the best super soft sugar cookies ever!

You can’t get any more delicious than these sugar cookies – and you just need a spoon, a large bowl, and a baking sheet to make them! These cookies, like our Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars, Lemon poke cake, and Chewy Molasses Cookies are super simple – even beginner cooks can make them!

How To Make Easy Soft Sugar Cookies

To make this recipe, we will need the following ingredients:

• Butter. Butter provides critical fat to make cookies chewy and soft, as well as gives a creamy rich flavor!
• Granulated sugar. Granulated white sugar mixes perfectly in this recipe to help give a classic sugar cookie flavor, even lift, and crispy baked bottom.
• Egg. Egg is a critical binder for our cookies, as well as additional lifting agent – giving rich, delicious flavor while keeping cookies light, puffy, and chewy.
• Vanilla extract. Vanilla gives cookies the perfect down-home, nostalgic, sweet and delicious flavor everyone loves.
• Almond extract. Almond extract mixed with vanilla extract sets sugar cookies apart – giving them a more complex flavor that
• All purpose flour. All purpose flour’s gluten profile is perfect for these no-fuss cookies – since we’re adding our own leavening, they don’t need self-rising flour, bread flour will be too dense, and cake flour too light.
• Baking soda. Baking soda is a leavening agent that helps work to puff cookies, keeping cookies light and puffy. While normally we need an acid to interact with baking soda to activate it, the heat from the oven will work in this recipe. Baking soda is added along with baking powder for a perfect texture that won’t spread and has great snap.
• Baking powder. Baking powder is a complete leavener – meaning it doesn’t need an acid to become activated. It combines with baking soda in this recipe to give our cookies the perfect pillowy texture.
• Salt. Baking with salt helps to keep your leaveners from over-rising, and adds a perfect balance to sweetness, enhancing your cookie’s flavor!

Once we’ve gathered our ingredients, we will use the following process:

• Mix. We won’t be separating wet and dry bowls for this recipe – go ahead and dump it all into one bowl and mix! Be sure not to overwork cookie dough. Use a cookie scoop to shape cookies.
• Bake. Bake at 350 until light, puffy, and browned on the bottom.
• Enjoy!

Tips and Tricks for Perfect Chewy Sugar Cookies & FAQs

Preheat oven completely. Preheat oven to 350 degrees before putting cookies in oven – making sure your oven is hot when cookies go in will help your cookies not spread and will keep the soft, pillowy texture.

Use room temperature eggs. Using room temperature, instead of cold, eggs help the eggs whip up faster and get a lighter texture.

Line Baking Sheets With Parchment Paper. While you can use silpat or a well greased baking sheet, I find the texture of these cookies comes out perfectly when baked on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Soften butter. Creaming your butter and sugar together is essential to this recipe – and you can’t do that with cold butter.

Add food colorings slowly. These cookies take beautifully to food coloring – simply add any food coloring slowly for best results.

Use sanding sugar. These cookies are also so light they look great topped with colored sugar, or even just a little powdered sugar sprinkled on them hot out of the oven!

Mix in a stand mixer for fastest results. If you don’t have a stand mixer, no problem – you’ll just need a little extra stirring action.

Don’t skip the vanilla extract and the almond extract. While they can be seen as optional, these cookies really get their amazing flavor from the vanilla extract and the almond extract to provide more depth to the flavor.

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