These Christmas Lofthouse Cookies are a perfect way to spread some holiday cheer. With their festive colors and sweet sugary frosting, they bring a delicious surprise to any gathering. This Lofthouse cookies recipe will be the star of your holiday dessert table.
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❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
- No need to head over to your grocery store bakery to pick up a package of these soft sugar cookies, when you can make them at home with this recipe.
- These homemade Lofthouse cookies will be the star of your holiday cookie exchange. Kids love these cookies.
- This simple recipe will give you soft sugar cookies every time, it's a fail-proof recipe that even beginners can make.
- These cookies taste even better than their store-bought cookie counterparts.
🧾 Ingredient List
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- unsalted butter
- Canola OIl
- granulated white sugar
- confectioners sugar
- large egg
- heavy whipping cream
- all-purpose flour
- corn starch
- Kosher salt
- baking powder
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
- unsalted butter
- confectioners sugar
- heavy whipping cream
- pure vanilla extract
🍲 Equipment
- baking sheet
- Stand Mixer
- food scale, optional
- Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls
- silicone baking mat or parchment paper
🔪 Instructions
This is an overview of the recipe. The full instructions are below in the recipe card.
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 350°F/177°C. Place the silicone mats or parchment paper on the baking sheets.
Step 2: In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment cream together the butter, oil, white sugar, and powdered sugar until well combined.
Step 3: Add the egg and heavy whipping cream to the wet ingredients. In a medium bowl mix the flour, cornstarch, salt, and baking powder.
Step 4: Gradually, add the dry ingredients to finish the cookie dough.
Step 5: Use a medium cookie scoop or a food scale to weigh out 2.2 ounces of cookie dough to get 12 equal-sized cookies. Roll the dough into a ball and then place on your prepared cookie sheets.
Step 6: Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool for about 5 minutes before moving them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Frosting Instructions
Step 1: In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment beat together the butter, confectioners sugar, heavy cream, and vanilla extract until creamy.
Step 2: Divide the frosting into two seperate bowls. Add 6 drops of red food coloring gel to one bowl, and 6 drops of green food coloring gel to the second bowl. Mix until combined.
Step 3: Use a medium cookie scoop and place an even layer of frosting on top of each cookie, and top with festive sprinkles.
Step 4: Repeat with red and green food coloring until are cookies are decorated. Place the cookies in freezer for 10 minutes to allow the frosting to harden.
👩🏻🍳 Eileen's Tips for Success
- Make sure that you use room temperature ingredients for both the cookie dough and frosting this will give you a smooth cookie dough and sweet frosting.
- Once you add the dry ingredients to your sugar cookie dough be careful to not overmix. Overmixing will cause the dough to be tough.
- I like to use a baking mat to keep the bottom of the cookies from browning too much. But, parchment paper can be used instead.
- If your cookies are not perfectly round, while they are warm gently roll them inside the top of a glass to fix their shape.
- I've found that using jimmie-style sprinkles works best on top of these homemade cookies.
📖 Variations
Do you want to change up this recipe? Here are some ways that you increase the flavor of this dish.
- You can change the flavor of the cookie dough by using almond extract instead of vanilla extract.
- For a little extract flavor in your frosting feel free to add a few drops of peppermint extract to give your frosting a hint of mint flavor.
- Use different food coloring to change up the colors to suit the holiday. For example, you can use red and pink frosting for Valentine's Day or green for St. Patrick's Day.
- Vegetable oil can be used in place of canola oil, if you choose to use a different oil make sure that it is a neutral flavor oil.
❄️ Make ahead, storage, and freezer tips
Storage - Store cookies in an airtight container for up to 5 days. If you storing them on a cookie platter make sure to wrap them tightly with plastic wrap.
Freezing - These cookies can be frozen, but you will need to flash freeze on a baking sheet for one hour before you move them to a freezer bag.
Make-ahead - These soft cookies can be made up to 24 hours in advance.
📋 Frequently Asked Questions
No, with this soft frosted sugar cookie recipe, there is no need to allow the dough to chill before you bake it
Dave and Deann Stone invented these cookies in a small kitchen in Oregon. I don't about you but I'm so glad that they did.
The mixture of cornstarch and baking powder is what makes these cookies so soft.
🥣 Serving Suggestions
- This Apricot Bourbon Glazed Ham is an old family recipe that I love to serve during the holidays. It's the perfect blend of sweet and savory so you can't go wrong!
- If you are looking for a vegetable side dish that is guaranteed to please the picky eaters at Christmas time this year, then these Cheesy Green Beans are just what you need.
- Funeral Potatoes are a must have at holiday parties. It's creamy, cheesy, and will be devoured by your friends and family.
🍽 Similar recipes
- Are you looking for more delicious cookie recipes to make this holiday season? If so, try these Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies or for another copycat recipe try these Copycat Crumbl Turtle Cookies.
- Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies are another one of my favorite cookie recipes to make during the holiday season. It's a great cookie to make for cookie exchanges because it's a little different.
- Are you looking for the perfect Christmas cookie recipe? This No Chill Sugar Cookies recipe is perfect for making your cutout cookies this year.
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Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F/177°C, line two baking sheets with silicone baking mats. Set aside
- To assemple the wet ingredient, use a standing mixer, with paddles attached, beat the butter, oil, white sugar, and confectioners sugar until combined.
- Beat in the egg, and heavy whipping cream until combined. set aside.
- Mix the dry ingredients by using a medium-sized mixing bowl, and whisk together the flour, cornstarch, salt, and baking powder.
- Gradually beat the dry ingredients into the wet with a low speed on the stand mier and continue beating until a dough forms.
- Use a medium cookie scoop and food scale (optional), scoop out a small amount of dough, and weigh it to 2.2 ounces, to make 12 equal size cookies.
- Roll each cookie dough into a ball and place on the cookie sheet, pressing into a thick disk Repeat each step until you have 6 even sized cookie dough disks on each cookie tray.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. The cookies should be baked through and slightly soft and golden brown on the bottom.
- Allow to cool completely on a wire rack while you make the frosting
- Using a standing mixer, with paddles attached, beat the butter, confectioners sugar, heavy whipping cream, and vanilla extract until creamy
- Divide the frosting into two medium-sized mixin- bowls
- Mix 6 drops of red gel food coloring into 1 bowl.
- Mix 6 drops of green gel food coloring into the second bowl.
- Take the medium cookie scoop and place and even layer of frosting onto the top of the cookie. Then add a bit of sprinkles to the top of the cookies.
- Repeat with the rest of the cookies and the red frosting.
- Place the cookies into the freezer for 10 minutes to allow the frosting to harden.
- The cookies are ready to be served and enjoy.
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