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Best Sour Cream Cookies

December 2, 2018 by Jennifer @ Plowing Through Life 5 Comments

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These Sour Cream Cookies are moist, fluffy and simply the best cut-out cookies I’ve ever made!  

We used homemade icing for part of them and a can of icing for the rest. Both options were excellent.  A few sprinkles finish them off!

Sour cream cookies are moist, fluffy and simply the best cut out cookies with homemade icing and gold sprinkles on a cooling rack

Best Sour Cream Sugar Cookie Recipe

Growing up we always made cut-out sugar cookies and they were good, but this Sour Cream Cookie recipe takes it up a couple notches.  The cookie is much lighter and stays moist because of the sour cream.

Sometimes I feel funny about the word sour – but there’s nothing sour about these cookies.  They are moist, delicious and make a wonderful sweet treat on a Christmas cookie tray. These sour cream cut-out cookies are hard to stop eating!

I will warn you that these cookies are VERY moist and the dough takes a little bit more finesse to roll out and handle than traditional sugar cookie dough, but it’s worth it!  We’ve had readers submit other combinations of wet and dry ingredients and we’ve tested them.  Our original recipe is our favorite as long as you have the time and patience to keep flouring your surface as your work with the tacky dough.

My kids and I make this recipe at most holidays so we can use different cookie cutters and a variety of seasonal sprinkles.  The kids LOVE dressing up the cookies with sprinkles!  Shaking them all over the counter and kitchen is almost as fun as eating them!

We used a round drinking glass to cut out the cookies in the pictures.  Whether you use a basic round glass or cookie cutters, the taste and quality are the same

Easy Homemade Icing for Cut-Out Cookies

We like a nice thick layer of icing, so the batch of icing doesn’t quite cover all of our cookies.  If we need more icing we just pull a can of pre-made vanilla icing out of the cupboard. We LOVE the taste of both. One is obviously easier.  

The homemade icing does set up a bit better, after about an hour, so that the cookies could be carefully stacked.

I appreciate that a friend from church gave me this recipe, so I wanted to try it for the first time and make cookies for a Christmas fundraiser at church.  We also took some of these cookies along to a family holiday party and everyone loved them!

Cookies this good don’t last more than a couple of days in our house, so we love using a storage container with easy to use lid.  If we wanted them to last longer I would use freezer bags and freeze them to maintain maximum freshness.

Collage of Round Sour Cream Cookies cut out cookies with icing and sprinkles


How to Make Sour Cream Cookies

  1. In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar.  Beat in eggs.
  2. Add sour cream and vanilla, and mix well.
  3. Combine flour, baking powder and baking soda, add to the creamed mixture and mix well.
  4. Cover and chill dough at least 2 hours or overnight.
  5. Roll dough out on a heavily floured surface to a 1/4 inch thickness.
  6. Cut with a 3-inch cookie cutter or use a drinking glass.
  7. Place cookies on a lightly greased baking sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees F for 7 to 10 minutes, or until cookies springs back when lightly touched.  Cool.
  8. To make the icing mix powdered sugar, crisco, salt, and milk well.
  9. Add melted butter and vanilla.  Blend thoroughly, and spread on cookies.
  10. Decorate with sprinkles or colored sugar if desired.

How Long Are Sour Cream Cookies Good?

If they last that long, 3 to 5 days is typically the shelf life for really moist cookies.  Of course an airtight bag or container is key to maximizing cookie quality and shelf life.  They may last a day or two longer if stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

How Do You Organize Cookies on A Tray?

When arranging cookies on a rectangular or square tray being placing cookies around the outside edge and work inward.  When arranging cookies on a circular tray place one cookie in the center of the tray.  Continue to arrange cookies in a circular pattern from the center working outward.

After icing Sour Cream cut-out cookies they need to be stored in a single layer to prevent icing sticking to the bottom of the other cookies.  I prefer using an airtight container, but plastic wrap can also work.

Other Delicious Christmas Cookies:

  • Cowboy Cookie Bars
  • Dark Chocolate & Oatmeal Cookies
  • Farmhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Old Fashioned Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
  • Applesauce Raisin Cookies.
  • Best Chocolate Chip Cookies {Farmhouse Style}

We hope you enjoy all of these cookies as much as we do!

Printable Best Sour Cream Cookie Recipe

Round cut-out Sour Cream Cookies with homemade icing

Best Sour Cream Cookies

These Sour Cream Cookies are moist, fluffy and simply the best cut out cookies I’ve ever made!  We used homemade icing for part of them and a can of icing for the rest. Both options were excellent.  A few sprinkles finish them off!
5 from 1 vote
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Best Sour Cream Cookies, fluffy sugar cookies, sugar cookies
Prep Time: 30 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
Servings: 45 cookies
Calories: 177kcal
Author: Jennifer @ Plowing Through Life

Ingredients

Cookies

  • 3 eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

Icing

  • 1 pound powdered sugar
  • 1/2 cup crisco
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 2 tablespoons butter melted
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla

Instructions

Cookies

  • In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar.  Beat in eggs.  Add sour cream and vanilla, and mix well.
  • Combine flour, baking powder and baking soda, add to the creamed mixture and mix well.  Chill dough at least 2 hours or overnight.
  • Roll dough out on a heavily floured surface to a 1/4 inch thickness.  Cut with a 3-inch cookie cutter or use a drinking glass.  
  • Place cookies on a lightly greased baking sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees F for 8 to 12 minutes, or until cookies springs back when lightly touched.  Cool.  

Icing

  • Mix well – powdered sugar, crisco, salt, and milk.
  • Add melted butter and vanilla.  Blend thoroughly, and spread on cookies.  Decorate with sprinkles or colored sugar if desired.

Notes

*I will warn you that these cookies are VERY moist and the dough takes a little bit more finesse to roll out and handle than traditional sugar cookie dough, but it’s worth it! 

Equipment

Baking Rack
Silicone Spatula
Baking Sheet
Baking Mat

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Nutrition

Calories: 177kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 26mg | Sodium: 81mg | Potassium: 43mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 191IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 19mg | Iron: 1mg
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Comments

  1. Deanne

    October 15, 2019 at 9:07 pm

    5 stars
    These are delicious and I love the convenience of pre-made frosting. This will be a fun Christmas cookie project for our family!!

    Reply
  2. Lourdes

    December 28, 2019 at 9:03 am

    Can i substitute the sour cream with Greek yogurt?

    Reply
    • Jennifer

      December 28, 2019 at 5:59 pm

      Great question! I have made that substitution in other recipes, but I have not tried it in these cookies yet. I think it may work, but may require a different amount of flour to roll the cookies out. Let me know how it goes if you give it a try!

  3. Emily Donahue

    June 5, 2020 at 6:46 pm

    The cookies are delicious but the crisco o in the icing ruins it. I don’t really bake with It anymore. I’ll use another icing next time

    Reply
  4. Connie

    December 16, 2020 at 1:17 pm

    Good morning. I am terrible at rolling dough for cookies. Do you think it would be possible to scoop dough out with cookie scoop and then smash down with a glass dipped in sugar? This recipe sounds delicious. Love sour cream. Thanks for a wonderful blog and so many scrumptious recipes.

    Reply

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