Homemade Sugar Cookies

Bake better sugar cookies by lining your baking sheet with Reynolds Kitchens® Parchment Paper with SmartGrid®. This sugar cookie base recipe is also used to make our Snowflake Sugar Cookies and Melted Snowman Cookies, if you're looking for some festive holiday cookie ideas.

  • Prep Time

    20 minutes

  • Servings

    Makes 36 two-inch cookies

  • Cook Time

    6 - 8 minutes

  • Course

    Dessert

Ingredients

  • For the Cookies:

  • For the Icing:

Directions

COMBINE flour, baking powder and salt in large bowl set aside.

BEAT butter and sugar with electric mixer until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla. Gradually add flour mixture and combine.

WRAP dough in Reynolds Kitchens® Parchment Paper with SmartGrid® and place in plastic slider bag refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.

PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Line cookie sheets with Reynolds Kitchens® Parchment Paper with SmartGrid® set aside.

ROLL out dough 1/8-inch thick between 2 lightly floured sheets of parchment paper. CUT dough with 2 inch cookie cutters. PLACE dough on parchment-lined cookie sheets.

BAKE 6 to 8 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned on edges. Slide Reynolds Kitchens® Parchment Paper with SmartGrid® with cookies onto cooling rack cool.

DECORATE as desired. Store in airtight containers for up to 5 days.

FOR THE ICING:
MIX sugar, water, meringue powder and vanilla extract, if desired, in a medium bowl on low speed until just mixed. Continue mixing on high speed for 5 to 7 minutes until mixture is glossy and forms stiff peaks.

DIVIDE icing into small bowls and add food coloring, one drop at a time as desired. Cover bowls as you work to prevent drying. Stir in more water, 1 teaspoon at a time, if icing is too thick to spread or pipe. SPREAD or pipe icing onto completely cooled cookies. Set cookies aside until icing hardens.

STORE cookies in tightly covered container up to five days. STORE unused icing in air tight containers and refrigerate for up to one week. Stir in more water, 1 teaspoon at a time, if icing is too thick to spread or pipe.