Ultimate Sugar Cookies

seriously, these melt in your mouth cookies are the favorite sugar cookies I’ve found! These also are perfect for mini fruit pizzas..yum!!

I’ll get right to the recipe…

  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp cream of tarter
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • Cream cheese frosting
  • if using for fruit pizzas, these cookies are amazing on their own. This frosting is amazing.
  • 5 Tbsp salted butter, softened
  • 8 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  1. To make the cookies… Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, salt and cream of tartar for 20 seconds, set aside.
  2. In another bowl cream together sugar and butter until combined.
  3. Mix in egg, then mix in egg yolk and vanilla extract. Slowly add in dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
  4. Scoop out with cookie scoop or 1 1/2 Tbsp of dough. Roll into balls and place on cookie sheet, best on parchment paper 2 inches apart.
  5. Bake in preheated oven 10-12 minutes..Tip, cookies should appear slightly under baked and allow them to rest on the cookie sheet for a few minutes before moving to wire rack to cool.
  6. If using as fruit pizzas, cut up a variety of fruits….frost up the cookies and put the fruit on top.

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