Sour cream sugar cookies. These Sour Cream Cookies are not the difficult, finnicky cookies that require hours of rolling, cutting, baking, and decorating. They are a soft sugar cookie made with sour cream, and they have a fluffy, delicate texture that I find much more appealing. In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, sour cream and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.

The sugar cookies are soft and flavorful. Some people think sour cream sugar cookies taste like the Lofthouse sugar cookies you can buy at the store, and I can see why, but these homemade sugar cookies are so so much better! The Lofthouse ones are way to dry for me (and I think the frosting is gross). You can have Sour cream sugar cookies using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sour cream sugar cookies

It's 1 3/4 cup of All purpose flour.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of Baking soda.
Prepare 1/4 tsp of Salt.
It's 1/2 cup of (or 1 stick) softened butter.
It's 1 1/4 cup of Sugar.
It's 1 of Egg.
Prepare 1 tsp of Vanilla.
It's 1/2 cup of Sour cream.

With an electric mixer, cream the butter and sour cream at low speed; add the sugar, eggs, and vanilla & mix until combined. It's okay if it's a little lumpy as long as no butter chunks are visible. Gradually add the flour mixture to the sour cream mixture, mixing until well combined. Remove chilled dough from the refrigerator.

Sour cream sugar cookies step by step

Mix butter and sugar until creamy..
Beat in egg and vanilla until blended.
Beat in sour cream.
In separate bowl, mix remaining dry ingredients.
Sift in dry ingredients stirring only lightly until blended in, don't over stir..
Divide dough and shape into two balls..
Wrap ball in waxed paper and refrigerate over night..
Preheat oven to 325°F.
On floured surface, with floured rolling pin, roll one piece of dough to 1/8 inch thick. This is where I has some trouble with the recipe. I hadn't added enough flour in the mix and it was very sticky. I mixed in more flour and placed it in the freezer until it was easier to handle..
With floured cookie cutters, cut as many cookies as you can. Reserve trimmings to reshape and reuse..
Place cookies onto Cookie pan that Has been sprayed with pan baking spray with flour.
Bake 8 minutes, transfer to rack to cool..

Place dough on a lightly floured surface. Sour Cream Sugar Cookies - easy soft sugar cookie recipe that makes perfect frosted sugar cookies! No chilling, rolling, or cutting necessary! I've had a love-hate (mostly hate) relationship with sugar cookies over the years. Dissolve baking soda and salt in Sour cream.