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Sugar Cookies with Buttercream Frosting

These Soft Buttercream Frosted Sugar cookies are marvelous! Delicious pillowy cookies partnered perfectly with a rich buttercream frosting that melts in your mouth. Today we adorned them with halloween themed Candy melt toppers and sprinkles. Use any theme, sprinkles or just plain. These are the BEST!

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Soft Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies

I LOVE these huge sugar cookies! Of course, I’m a cookie fanatic. So these tasty treats suit me very well. I cut these cookies out with a 3 inch WIDE MOUTH canning screw band. So I only got about two dozen cookies out of this batch. Perfect party food! If you cut them out as a two inch circle you will get at least 30.

UPDATE: These Sugar cookies are also very cute made with Pie stamps without any frosting or toppers at all. This is an excellent baking with kids activity!

The grandgirls and I created these PLUNGER cookies. Dough plungers are fun and easy for kids to handle. These cookies were made by a 5, 7 and 10 year old in just a few minutes. They were so proud to take their cookies home and share with Mom And Dad. They tasted great even with no frosting.

Sugar Cookie Fall Leaves Made With Pie Stamps
Sugar Cookie Fall Leaves made with Pie stamps

We made about 60 cookies with the pie plungers. Great result!

Now for the frosted cookies…

Soft Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies Recipe Notes:

Coconut oil is my preferred baking oil. I substitute if for shortening, butter and other oils quite often. In this recipe I used it instead of the shortening called for one to one. I NEVER use shortening anymore. I highly recommend you use coconut oil too. We love the flavor and it’s much better for you than shortening.

I used Silicone mats on my baking sheets when I baked these cookies. I never have cookies stick with silicone sheets. LOVE them!

Soft Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies
Soft Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies themed for Halloween with Candy Melt Toppers

Instructions For the cookies:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Mix together with an electric mixer on medium low softened coconut oil, white sugar, 1/4 cup milk, eggs, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract together in a bowl until smooth.
  • Whisk flour, salt, and baking soda in a separate bowl.
  • Slowly beat flour mixture into wet mixture to make a smooth dough.
  • Roll dough out 1/4-inch thick on a floured work surface and cut into shapes. Arrange cookies on baking sheets.
  • Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are firm, about 10 minutes. Let cool

To make the Buttercream Frosting:
  • Beat butter, confectioners’ sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, and 2 tablespoons milk in a bowl with an electric mixer on high speed until frosting is spreadable and slightly fluffy.
  • Frost cooled cookies.
  • Do NOT stack them or the frosting will smush.

To decorate with the Candy Melt Toppers:

  • Melt the candy melts EXACTLY as each candy melt bag instructs or they will not work properly.
  • Using a Stencil under a transparent silpat mat as we did or parchment paper outline and fill in as desired the stencils.
  • Let them cool at room temperature.
  • Roll them carefully off the mat or paper.
  • Place the topper on your frosted cookies. I recommend you frost each cookie just before you place the topper so the topper will adhere properly to the cookie.
Soft Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies
Soft Buttercream Frosted Sugar Cookies. So soft and delicious!

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Sugar Cookies With Buttercream Frosting
Yield: 24 Servings

Sugar Cookies with Buttercream Frosting

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Additional Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

These Soft Buttercream Frosted Sugar cookies are marvelous! Delicious pillowy cookies partnered perfectly with a rich buttercream frosting that melts in your mouth.

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup softened coconut oil
  • 1 Cup white sugar
  • 1/4 Cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 3 Cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • (For The Frosting)
  • 1/4 Cup butter
  • 3 Cups confectioners sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract, or more to taste
  • 2 tablespoons milk, more as needed

Instructions

  1. Preheat Oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Mix softened coconut oil, white sugar, 1/4 cup milk, eggs, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract together in a bowl until smooth
  3. Whisk flour, salt, and baking soda in a separate bowl
  4. Slowly beat flour mixture into wet mixture to make a smooth dough
  5. Roll dough out 1/4-inch thick on a floured work surface and cut into shapes. Arrange cookies on baking sheets 2 inches apart
  6. Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are firm, about 10 minutes
  7. Remove to a cooling rack and allow them to fully cool
  8. Beat butter, confectioners' sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, and 2 tablespoons milk on high speed until frosting is spreadable and slightly fluffy
  9. Frost cooled cookies as desired

Nutrition Information

Yield

24

Serving Size

1

Amount Per Serving Calories 250Total Fat 12gSaturated Fat 9gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 2gCholesterol 21mgSodium 173mgCarbohydrates 34gFiber 0gSugar 22gProtein 2g

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Nellie

Friday 28th of October 2016

We always make sugar cookies for Halloween. These ones look great!

Diane

Friday 28th of October 2016

Hi Nellie, Sugar cookies are great anytime but these are so good for the holidays!

Diane

Friday 28th of October 2016

Lane & Holly, I LOVE this recipe! The cookie and icing are just perfect together.

Megan @ MegUnprocessed

Thursday 27th of October 2016

This is creative! Great decorations!

Diane

Friday 28th of October 2016

Thanks Meghan, It's a fun Holiday Project

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