This No Spread Sugar Cookies Recipe is the best sugar cookie recipe ever! You can make your sugar cookies and not have to worry about them spreading after baking! Not only do they keep their shape but they taste amazing too! They are the perfect sugar cookie recipe ever!
No Spread Sugar Cookies Recipe
The BEST Sugar Cookie Recipe
There are so many different sugar cookies recipes that you can find online and spend all the time making them only to put them in the oven and have them spread out all over the place. Then you end up with a disaster because you can not decorate runny, spread out cookies.
Thankfully you are all in luck because I went to baking school. I learned all the tricks on how to make perfect sugar cookies and I am going to tell you every secret I know so you can make the most amazing sugar cookies.
This sugar cookie recipe works perfectly with cookie cutters. You can use any cookie cutters you want to and when you bake the sugar cookies they will come out of the oven exactly the same shape they went in!
Seriously, these no spread sugar cookies are a total showstoppers, easy sugar cookie recipe that when you decorate them with royal icing you are totally going to WOW everyone!
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Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies
One of the biggest complaints I have gotten from friends who have used sugar cookie recipes they have found online was that if they didn’t spread they were rock hard. These no spread sugar cookies come out of the oven perfectly shaped, while being soft and chewy. Soft and Chewy is important for a sugar cookie, you definitely do not want to have rock hard sugar cookies.
When you decorate these soft sugar cookies with royal frosting, they look and taste like they are professionally made bakery cookies. But you made them in your kitchen with out having to spend a ton of money on the bakery sugar cookies.
The best no spread sugar cookie recipe that you will ever make! Soft and chewy sugar cookies that hold their shape with out spreading while baking!
No Spread Christmas Sugar Cookies Ingredients
- 3 cups flour
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cups butter (2 sticks)
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
No Spread Sugar Cookies Directions
In a large bowl or with your stand mixer cream the powdered sugar and butter until it is fluffy. If using the stand mixer it will take about 5 minutes.
Once the sugar and butter is creamed together, add in the egg and vanilla extract.
In a medium sized bowl mix the flour, baking powder, salt and granulated sugar. Use a whisk to mix everything together thoroughly.
Slowly add the flour mixture to the sugar, butter, egg and vanilla extract mixture. Mix everything until well incorporated.
Put a handful of the freshly made dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll until you get your desired thickness and set aside still on the parchment paper.
Repeat with the rest of the sugar cookie dough.
Put the rolled dough including the parchment paper, on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for at least 10 minutes. You can keep it in the fridge for longer if needed.
Once your dough is chilled completely it is ready to use cookie cutters to make the cookie shapes you are wanting to make.
Use your cookie cutters and cut out your cookies. Then reroll the scraps and continue cutting out cookies until all of the sugar cookie dough is used up.
Place cookies on a baking sheet and bake at 325° F for 10 -15 minutes. Keep an eye on them, you want them to be finished cooking but not brown. Depending on your ovens heat power will depend if they need the full 15 minutes to bake.
Let cool completely before decorating with Royal Icing.
The best no spread sugar cookie recipe
Ingredients
- 3 cups flour
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cups butter 2 sticks
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a large bowl or with your stand mixer cream the powdered sugar and butter until it is fluffy. If using the stand mixer it will take about 5 minutes.
- Once the sugar and butter is creamed together, add in the egg and vanilla extract.
- In a medium sized bowl mix the flour, baking powder, salt and granulated sugar. Use a whisk to mix everything together thoroughly.
- Slowly add the flour mixture to the sugar, butter, egg and vanilla extract mixture. Mix everything until well incorporated.
- Put a handful of the freshly made dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll until you get your desired thickness and set aside still on the parchment paper.
- Repeat with the rest of the sugar cookie dough.
- Put the rolled dough including the parchment paper, on a cookie sheet and refrigerate for at least 10 minutes. You can keep it in the fridge for longer if needed.
- Once your dough is chilled completely it is ready to use cookie cutters to make the cookie shapes you are wanting to make.
- Use your cookie cutters and cut out your cookies. Then reroll the scraps and continue cutting out cookies until all of the sugar cookie dough is used up.
- Place cookies on a baking sheet and bake at 325° F for 10 -15 minutes. Keep an eye on them, you want them to be finished cooking but not brown. Depending on your ovens heat power will depend if they need the full 15 minutes to bake.
- Let cool completely before decorating with Royal Icing.
Notes
Nutrition
3 Weight Watchers SmartPoints per cookie, not including icing.
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Could you please clarify, it says “1 eggs” then “add eggs” but it says one egg in ingredients list…. Is this a mistake and its meant to be two eggs?
opps sorry its a typo its 1 egg
Truly enjoyed this recipe! Thank you for sharing it.
Your recipe for no spread sugar cookies it says 1 eggs is that one egg?
Yes. (Tom)
hi there,
Is it only one cup of butter? The recipe says 1 cups? Just want to make sure I have it right!
Sorry and yes its only one cup 🙂
What temp should the butter be? Softened, room temp, chilled?
Thanks I look forward to making these!
works best with room temp since you will then be putting the cookies in the fridge too 🙂
I normally take my butter out about an hour or two before I start making them.
Do you know if there would be any changes to the recipe if I am at a higher elevation?
how high are you? I have tried it at a few different elevations with success every time 🙂
Did these spread? Ive tried so many. Was hoping to see a review on if they kept their shape or not
I’m trying it 2marro I will let you know.
No they don’t spread, I got sick of ones that do so this is my go to recipe 🙂 then the kids can decorate them and you dont have to worry about your start looking like a circle after baking 🙂
Hello, does the recipe call for regular butter or unsalted? Thanks!
When you are baking you should always used unsalted butter.
Just made these cookies last night. They didn’t spread and came out beautiful. I also baked them at a high elevation of 7,300 ft. so cookies are always hard for me to get right but I didn’t need to adjust this recipe at all. Thank you!
I am glad you loved them and its good to know that higher elevation you didn’t have to change anything 🙂 These are my FAV cookies to make for the kids to decorate 🙂 I use the same recipe for all our cookies 🙂
So what is the secret to keeping them from spreading?
Following the directions 🙂 These ones don’t spread at all when you bake them 🙂
What is the frosting recipe? How do you apply it?
the frosting recipe is here https://www.midgetmomma.com/2013/12/11/royal-icing-recipe/
The best way to decorate with it i have found is using squeeze bottles 🙂
I really love this recipe. So , thank you for sharing. Every time I make it I add a little water and then I can just roll it out and cut out my cookies. I completely skip the chill in the refrigerator part. This way my toddler stays occupied as well. 🙂
Thank you so much for this delicious cookie recipe. I made them today with my grandchildren. As soon as the icing went they had to taste one. And they loved them. We attempted to take some to my father at the nursing home. And one of my twin grandsons ate the cookies. I felt bad. But I got home told my husband and then I tried one myself. Wow everything you said. Made wonderful cut outs. Awesome. Thanks again.
I’ve used this recipe for the past two Christmases. It’s our favorite!
Did you use All Purpose flour? If not, what kind?
yes all purpose flour
How thick would you recommend the cookies be rolled out? I’m thinking a quarter of an inch would be nice? What say you? Thanks for this recipe. I can’t wait to try it out, and the royal icing too!
I really wanted to like this recipe, especially since I used two sticks of premium butter in it. I am always looking for a great no spread sugar cookie recipe that holds its shape. And while these cookies did not spread when baked, I found the dough dry and difficult to work with. It did not have a nice texture when rolling it out. I suspect the problem is not enough eggs. Most recipes I have seen call for 2 eggs, this one calls for 1. There is not enough moisture in the dough to hold it together. The first batch just came out of the oven, but I am afraid that once I begin to decorate them, they will break. I bake cookies with intricate designs so a dough that is strong and holds its shape is imperative.
Hi can you use powdered sugar instead of granulated sugar
no
Perfect!