Soft And Fluffy Sugar Cookies With Vanilla Frosting
You know those insanely good sugar cookies at the grocery store that are bright pink and have a really thick layer of frosting and sprinkles? The lofthouse ones? Yea, those sugar cookies that are the best thing ever and magically disappear in your stomach as soon as you swallow giving you the ability to eat the whole freaking plastic container full of them? Yea those are amazing.
Those are my favorite. I walk by them every time I go to the store, tempted to pick up a pack. I hardly ever do these days because I am old, and now that I have a fit bit, constantly feel guilty for never getting in those 10,000 steps. Those cookies would probably literally make me gain like 3 pounds overnight because I have no self control with them. We decided it would be a good idea to make these lofthouse cookies from scratch. So now you can make these at home, and put in all that effort and eat all of them. I won’t judge you. I think it more acceptable to eat all the cookies when you made them, as opposed to eating all the cookies that you buy.
Ingredients:
cookies
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg plus 1 large egg white, lightly beaten together
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
frosting
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 pound powdered sugar, sifted
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
topping
sprinkles of choice, optional