Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies

Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies, or Lofthouse cookies, are a light and fluffy dessert, perfect for Christmas. Tender and eye-catching, these are the best sugar cookies for a party or cookie exchange. Made with easy ingredients, like butter and sugar, these super soft cookies topped with sugar cookie frosting are a breeze to make!

Author: It is a Keeper

Meal Type: Peanuts Free

Cuisine: American

Difficulty: EASY

Prep. Time: 12 minutes

Cook Time: 12 minutes

Total Time: 24 minutes

Servings: 72 cookies

Calories: 62 kcal per serving

Ingredients

¾ cups - Butter
¼ cups - Shortening
1 ½ cups - Sugar
2 - eggs
1 ½ teaspoons - Vanilla Extract
2 ½ cups - Flour
3 ⅓ ounces - Instant Vanilla Pudding
1 tsp - Baking Powder
½ tsp - Salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Cream together butter, shortening, and sugar with an electric mixer.
Add in eggs, vanilla, and instant pudding mix. Continue mixing until thoroughly incorporated.
In a separate bowl stir together flour, baking powder and salt.
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture a little at a time mixing between additions until all the flour is incorporated.
Using a dough scoop or spoon scoop drop by tablespoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.
Bake for 12-15 minutes or until set and lightly golden brown around the edges.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Once cookies have cooled, frost with icing.

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