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These Copycat Lofthouse Cookies are soft, delicious, and better than the store bought sugar cookies!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
If you love the store bought soft and delicious sugar cookies, now you can make them at home! Lofthouse Cookies are are a nice thick, light sugar cookie with frosting and sprinkles. And this copycat recipe is better than the originals!
Ingredients
- flour
- baking soda
- baking powder
- butter, room temperature
- sugar
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- sour cream
How To Make Lofthouse Cookies
This recipe makes about two dozen cookies.
- Combine 3 C flour, baking soda, baking powder.
- Mix butter and sugar in a stand mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs, vanilla, and sour cream and mix on low until combined.
- Add in dry ingredients and beat until just combined.
- Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. If you are pressed for time, you can put dough in the freezer for a few hours. Dough will be sticky.
- Spread flour your counter and rolling pin and roll out dough to 1/4 inch thickness.
- Cut out cookies. I used a 2 inch round cutter.
- Bake at 425 on parchment lined cookie sheet for 6-8 minutes or until the cookie barely turns lightly brown around the bottom edge. Do not overcook these cookies!
- Transfer to a rack to cool.
Be sure and don’t overbake these cookies. You want them to still look white, just barely turning a little golden, I mean very little. Just around the bottom edge, ever so slightly.
I used my favorite buttercream frosting recipe to frost them. And of course sprinkles are required. Now enjoy1
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Lofthouse Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 C flour divided
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 C butter room temperature
- 1 C sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 C sour cream
Frosting
- 1/2 C butter softened
- 3 C powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 and 1/2 or milk just enough to get right consistency
- food coloring
- sprinkles
Instructions
- In a bowl combine 3 C flour, baking soda, baking powder.
- In a mixer cream together the butter and sugar at mediumn speed until light and fluffy.
- Add in eggs.
- Add in vanilla and sour cream and mix on low until combined.
- Add in dry ingredients and beat until just combined.
- Dough will be sticky.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
- Use some additional flour for counter and rolling pin to roll out dough 1/4 inch thick
- With a 2 inch round cutter cut out cookies.
- Bake at 425 on parchment lined cookie sheet for 6-8 minutes or until the cookie barely turns lightly brown around the bottom edge. Do not overcook these cookies!
- Transfer to a rack to cool.
Frosting
- Beat together butter, sugar and vanilla until smooth.
- Add in just enough milk to get a consistency. Do 1 Tablespoon at a time.
- Add food coloring if wanted
- Frost cookies and add sprinkles.
- Store in an air tight container. Best to let cookies sit for several hours before serving.
Jolene says
I couldn’t wait to try this recipe! It says “Dough will be sticky.” What an understatement! It was impossible to handle, even after adding flour multiple times. I tried to partially freeze the dough, thinking that might help make it easier to handle, but it didn’t. I ended up throwing it all away. Very disappointing!.
Lindsey says
How long do these keep?
Leigh Anne says
Lindsey, I think cookies are always the best fresh but they would be good for 3-4 days probably. They never last that long at our house though.
Scoti says
The ingredients state “3C of flour, divided” but in the instructions is states to mix in all 3 cups. Do I actually mix in all 3 cups or do I leave some out for rolling?
Bridget says
Do you need a stand mixer for these or will the dough be “thin” enough for a regular mixer? Other Lofthouse copy cat recipes I’ve seen all require the dough attachment 🙁
Leigh Anne says
Bridget, you should be able to do this with a regular hand mixer.