These No Chill Sugar Cookies have no spread which makes them the BEST recipe for making cut-out Christmas cookies. They are soft and chewy with golden brown edges and can be made in just a few minutes time.
Make these easy sugar cookies and then decorate them with my Cookie Icing that Hardens.

 

Cut-out cookies can feel a bit intimidating. If you are needing the BEST Sugar Cookie recipe that holds it’s shape with NO Spreading, requires no chilling, has delicious buttery vanilla flavor, golden brown crisp edges, you have found that recipe! My No Chill Sugar Cookie Recipe checks every single one of those boxes. Plus, it’s so quick and easy.
If you are looking for other classic Christmas cookie ideas, consider making Peanut Butter Blossoms or Gingerbread Cookies.

The No Chill Sugar Cookie dough is easy enough for beginners which makes it great when kids are excited for Christmas Cookie Decorating. The recipe uses just 6 simple ingredients. There is no waiting for the dough to chill so, they can be made so quickly.

Have you made a sugar cookie recipe that resulted in a dry cracked cookie? I have a tip for making your cut-out cookies the perfect texture with less mess. I roll my sugar cookie dough between two sheets of parchment. This helps in a few ways. Let me explain.

When we add flour to our rolling surface, out hands or on our rolling pin, the dough is absorbing all of that flour. That makes your cookie dry, then cracking occurs and the flavor becomes awful. Adding no additional flour is the best method for having Perfect Sugar Cookies.
I fix this issue by using two sheets of parchment paper for rolling my cutout sugar cookie dough. The parchment also helps because there is no reason to transfer or handle the dough (which messes up the shape and warms the dough).
If you do not have parchment paper available, do not go crazy with flour. Use the lightest amount possible when dusting your work surface and rolling pin. Keep your hands damp with water if the sugar cookie dough becomes too dry,

No Chill Sugar Cookies Ingredients

You might think that this No Chill Sugar Cookies Recipe may need some special ingredients to make it all work. Here’s the big surprise: you don’t need any extra fancy ingredients at all to make the best cut-out cookies yourself. Check your fridge and pantry to see if you have these staple ingredients on hand:

• Flour – All-purpose flour is perfectly fine here. You don’t need any sort of cake flour or specialty flour for sugar cookies.
• Baking Powder – Not to be confused with baking soda. Don’t mix them up! This addition gives the cookies the rise and slight puff, keeping them soft.
• Butter – For best results, use room temperature butter for this recipe. In a pinch, warm butter in microwave or cover with a hot cup or bowl to soften.
• Sugar – Stick with normal granulated white sugar here.
• Egg – Room temperature is best.
• Vanilla Extract
• Icing – While you technically don’t need icing for sugar cookies, it feels like a must for Christmas Cookies. You can go with store-bought icing/frosting or go with something like our Cookie Icing that Hardens.
• Sprinkles – Again, not required but feel free to have some fun with decorative sprinkles or jimmies! We ended up using this Watkins decorating sugar in red and green.

See recipe card for quantities.

How to make The BEST Sugar Cookies

Once you get the hang of it, making sugar cookies from scratch is pretty easy and you might not ever go back to store-bought sugar cookies! You’ve just gotta prep some wet and dry ingredients, mix them together, and you’ve got simple No Chill Sugar Cookie Dough that’s ready to bake. For quick and easy Roll Out Sugar Cookies, here’s all you have to do:

• Start by mixing dry ingredients: add your flour and baking powder to a large mixing bowl. Whisk together to combine.

• Over in a separate bowl, your wet ingredients: first, add butter and sugar. Use a hand or stand mixer to cream butter and sugar together until fluffy.

• Scrape down sides of bowl before adding egg and vanilla extract. Beat together once again until blended.

• Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, beating until combined.

• Once you’ve added the dry ingredients, sugar cookie dough should have the consistency of Play-Doh when pressed together. If needed, add water in small increments until Play-Doh consistency has been reached.

• Prepare a large piece of parchment paper on counter or cutting board. Form sugar cookie dough into a ball and transfer to prepared parchment paper.

• Cut another piece of parchment around the same size and set on top of sugar cookie dough ball. Use a rolling pin to roll cookie dough out into a 1/4-inch -1/2 inch thick sheet.

• Remove top sheet of parchment and set in baking sheet. Use cookie cutters to cut shapes from sugar cookie dough sheet and carefully transfer to baking sheet. Remember to roll cookie dough trimmings up into a new ball, roll out into another sheet, and cut out more sugar cookies– use up that cookie dough!

• Since these are No Chill Cookies, we can get right to baking. Transfer baking sheet to an awaiting 350 degree oven and bake for 8-10 minutes.

• Cookie centers should be starting to puff and cookie edges should have a little bit of color and browning to them. The shiny look should be gone too! Remove from oven and let cool completely. Enjoy sugar cookies without frosting or top with your favorite sugar cookies icing and sprinkles.

Storage / Freezing

Storage: Keep leftover sugar cookies in an airtight container or plastic bag for best storage. If you leave your homemade sugar cookies at room temperature, they’ll last 1-2 weeks this way. For longer storage, try the fridge- they’ll last closer to 2-4 weeks.

Freezing: Frozen sugar cookies- frosted or unfrosted- will last the longest. Move to an airtight freezer bag, squeeze out excess air, and set in the freezer. Freezing sugar cookies this way will help them last around 2-3 months.

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