Sugar Cookie Recipes

These drop sugar cookies are oh-so simple to whip up and easy to decorate to fit any party theme.

It doesn't get much cuter than these Easter sugar cookies! Spring flowers, adorable animals and pastel-colored Easter eggs make the...

These traditional Italian cookies are moist and tender. —Weda Mosellie, Phillipsburg, New Jersey

These old-fashioned, cake-like cookies are sweet and buttery. They pair equally well with a glass of cold milk or a...

These tender, soft sugar cookies have just a hint of lemon. If you like more lemon flavor, go ahead and...

We make sugar cookies and fill them with a tangy raspberry cream cheese. They taste best after they've been refrigerated...

My husband's grandmother made a variety of cookies every year for her grandkids at Christmastime. She would box them up...

Cream cheese helps create the rich, melt-in-your-mouth taste of these perfect cookies. Forget any other sugar cookie recipe-this is the...

Mom gave me this recipe when I was married. It’s been in our family for generations. Young and old alike...

Make sour cream sugar cookies for the most tender, melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookies you’ve ever had.

What makes these cookies the best ever? A delicious cream cheese dough flavored with vanilla, almond and a hint of...

My family’s all-time favorite Christmas cookie has had a million shapes over the years. Little ones have fun making their...

“Whenever company came to our house, my mother would bring out a batch of her sugar cookies,” says Ann DeHass,...

Before the military relocated our family, my children had never lived near the ocean. I came up with this special...

Whenever I've taken this sugar crisp recipe to church coffees, I've had women come into the kitchen and request the...

These lemon slice cookies are a refreshing variation of my grandmother's sugar cookies. Lemon pudding mix and icing add a...

What would Christmas be without overflowing tins of cookies? These festive filled cookies are the all time favorites of my...

Cutting fun shapes from sweet dough and decorating the cookies with icing and candies is a Christmas-time tradition many families,...

Using prepared cookie dough gives you a nice head start to your own little forest of Christmas trees. Get the...

These cinnamon-sugar cookies blend a classic snickerdoodle with a tender sugar cookie. They are packed with warming cinnamon, with the...

As much as I love giving away my baking, a few goodies—like these anise sugar cookies—are keepers. The light anise...

My grandmother always had sugar cookies in her pantry, and we grandchildren would empty that big jar quickly because they...

These soft, cake-like cookies have a pleasant anise flavor that's distinct but not overpowering. I add red and green sprinkles...