No Frosting Decorated Sugar Cookies
A recipe and instructions for how to make sugar cookies with sprinkles that don't need frosting.
Servings 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups Sugar
- 1 cup Butter Softened
- 2 Eggs
- ½ tsp Freshly grated Nutmeg
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- ¼ tsp Lemon Extract Substitute zest of 1 lemon
- 6 Tbsp Buttermilk
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 4-4.5 Cups AP Flour
Instructions
- Using a stand mixer or handheld mixer, cream sugar and butter together.
- Add eggs, salt, nutmeg, vanilla and lemon and mix.
- Dissolve the baking soda into the buttermilk, and add to mixture. Mix well.
- Add flour to wet ingredients and mix until dough forms.
- Dump dough onto piece of plastic wrap or into a gallon sized zip top bag and chill for minimum of 2hr.
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Roll out chilled dough until ¼-1/2in thickness and cut into desired shapes.
- Place cut shapes onto a parchament lined baking sheet.
- Decorate unbaked cookies with sprinkles as desired.
- Bake at 375 for 6-10 minutes or until cookies are puffy and just barely browned on edges. Watch closely.
- Carefully transfer cookies to a cooling rack and cool completely.