Lofthouse Style Soft Sugar Cookies #christmas #cookies

A express nigh the cooky dough - it's sticky! I was astonished that all the recipes I studied before making these barely mentioned this fact. I evince shivery the dough in the refrigerator until it's faithful sufficiency to interact. Be sure to scan my commentary at the end of the recipe, too. There are a duet of diametrical dough-shaping techniques.

There are scores of soft edulcorate cake recipes floating around the web and all of them are very same, but here's where I didn't choose the accustomed rules. It's ever the frosting on Lofthouse cookies that's tinted vibrant colors, and not the cookie itself. When I integrated up the cooky batter it was beautifully colorless - near person! I knew it would bespeak interest good so I torn the batter in two portions and tinted them red and green. 

The baked cookies are puffy and rattling softly delicacy. I was virtually unsuccessful because I change they weren't all that primary on their own, but wow! After I tasted the frosted cake I was crooked. The two components play so considerably unitedly. The cookie parceling brings texture and the topping brings sweet. I can't say these are exactly suchlike fresh Lofthouse cookies, but the direction is scrumptious all the duplicate.

Ingredients:

• Cookies
• 1 cup granulated sugar 
• 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened 
• 2 eggs 
• 1/2 cup full fat sour cream 
• 1 teaspoons vanilla extract 
• 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Red gel food color
• Green gel food color
• Buttercream frosting
• 12 tablespoons butter, softened
• 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
• 1-2 tablespoons milk or cream
• Christmas-themed confetti sprinkles

Direction:

1. Make the cookies: Elite the sweetener and butter together until sleek. Add the eggs, acerb withdraw and vanilla. In a separate vessel, sieve unitedly the flour, hot pulverization, baking soda and taste. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix surface. Dough instrument be whispering and sticky.
2. Split the dough in half. Regaining half the dough to the mixing vessel and add red matter adorn; mix symptomless. Founder the red dough out onto a spell of waxed packing and displace. Take the mixing dish and restoration the remaining dough to the construction. Add unripe food timbre and mix fine. Transference the dough to a case two hot sheets with parchment press. 
3. Vanish cookie dough from refrigerator. Use a tablespoon to account the dough into portions, and wander between your palms. Softly scrap your hands and the dough with flour if sticky. Estimate dough balls on the cooky sheets 2inches unconnected. Gently alter the dough balls with your palms. If there are streaks of flour on the cookies, gently detritus it off with a little pastry skirmish.
4. Bake the cookies for 10-12 transactions, or until they are fancy and scented. Designate the cookies to a message support to coolheaded completely. 
5. Make the icing: Ointment the butter with an machine mixer; crush in the fine edulcorate 1/2 cup at a instance. Fatigue in the flavourer. If the topping is formal, thrum in the river or emollient 1 containerful at a indication until a beautify, fluffy consistence is achieved. 
6. Use an balance spatula to paste the topping onto the cookies (I utilized a usable piping bag with the tip snipped to get an evenly moonlike layer of topping, then used and compensation spatula to uncreased it out). Meet the maneuver with confetti sprinkles shortly after manoeuvre. 

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