A secret ingredient makes these the SOFTEST, most flavorful cookies of your life! They hold their shape after baking. Plus the best frosting!

These delicious cutouts bake up tender and rich, with lots of flavor from the addition of cream cheese. These are so good they have been the sole sugar cookie cutouts in my recipe file for years.

Quick and easy sugar cookie frosting recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Soft, creamy, fluffy, perfect for cookie decorating and holds its shape.

The whipped cream cheese frosting (divine) that used to be part of this recipe can be found on this post of another favorite sugar cookie recipe. These cookies are so soft and so tender - but they won't be if they are overbaked, so watch closely!For all you daredevils out there, you can try eliminating the chilling step and rolling them out right away (I know, I know, I hate waiting, too), but the dough has always been a bit too sticky when I've tried to rush it.

White Velvet Cookies are a delicious cookie. Moist and soft, these cookies while the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie tray.

One of the best Christmas cookies ever! No matter how you decorate these cream cheese sugar cookies, they're such a fun project for kids of all ages. Save this cutout cookie recipe and enjoy some easy holiday baking!

We make and decorate these cutouts for different holidays and give lots of them as gifts. Last year, we baked a batch a week before Christmas to be sure we'd have plenty to give and plenty for ourselves, too. These rich cookies melt in your mouth. —Kim Hinkle, Wauseon, Ohio

We make and decorate these cutouts for different holidays and give lots of them as gifts. Last year, we baked a batch a week before Christmas to be sure we'd have plenty to give and plenty for ourselves, too. These rich cookies melt in your mouth. —Kim Hinkle, Wauseon, Ohio

A secret ingredient in this sugar cookies recipe makes these cookies the SOFTEST and most flavorful cookies of your life! And they even hold their shape after baking, so you get exactly what you want instead of sad blob cookies. (Frost them with The BEST Buttercream Frosting for Sugar Cookies or Royal Icing!)

Tender and buttery sugar cookies are topped with a fluffy homemade buttercream icing for the most delicious and festive sweet treats. This frosted butter dream sugar cookies recipe does not require refrigeration and bakes up perfectly formed Christmas cookies that hold their shape!