Recipes & Cooking Desserts & Baking Cookies Sugar Cookies Copycat Sugar Cookies: How to Get the Perfect Soft Texture 3.0 (1) 1 Review Wrap up one or two of our copycat sugar cookies to make an enormously sweet gift. By Erin Hooker Erin Hooker Erin is the assistant food editor at Better Homes & Gardens, where she covers weeknight and budget cooking, along with trending copycat recipes. Learn about BHG's Editorial Process Published on December 21, 2023 Recipe tested by Juliana Hale Recipe tested by Juliana Hale Juliana Hale is a senior culinary specialist in the test kitchen with 20 years of experience in recipe testing and development. She works closely with AllRecipes, Forks Over Knives, Midwest Living, and Traditional Home overseeing testing in the test kitchen for those titles. Juli is an expert in all fields of cooking, but is particularly geeky about mixology and has taught her class, Fun with Sours, to internal staff. Learn more about the Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen Rate PRINT Share Close Photo: Carson Downing Prep Time: 30 mins Bake Time: 26 mins Cool Time: 2 mins Total Time: 58 mins Servings: 9 Yield: 9 cookies Jump to Nutrition Facts Crumbl’s pink-frosted classic sugar cookie is a semipermanent fixture on the menu—no doubt due to its broad appeal. Fans of frosting will appreciate the generous swirl of almond buttercream on top (nearly ¼ cup!), and sugar cookie purists will love the melt-in-your-mouth crumb. Tips for Making Copycat Sugar Cookies For even doneness, press cookies to the full diameter specified in the recipe and don’t skip letting the cookies stand on the cookie sheet after baking. Not a fan of almond? Make vanilla frosting instead! Follow the recipe for almond buttercream frosting, but omit almond extract and use 1 tsp. vanilla. These giant cookies may be good enough to eat whole, but they're even better shared with friends. We recommend cutting the cookies in halves or quarters to enjoy in smaller doses. How to Store Sugar Cookies Store cookies between waxed paper in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 days or freeze up to 3 months. How to Freeze Cookies and Cookie Dough Ingredients 1 1/3 cups salted butter, softened 1 cup granulated sugar 1/3 cup powdered sugar 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 3 large egg whites 2 tablespoons heavy cream 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 3 2/3 cups all purpose flour Almond Buttercream Frosting 1 cup softened salted butter 1 cup powdered sugar 2 tbsp heavy cream 1 tsp almond extract 1 dash salt 3 cups powdered sugar 1 tbsp heavy cream 1 to 2 drops pink gel food coloring Directions Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. In a large bowl beat butter with a mixer on medium to high 30 seconds. Add both sugars, baking powder, and salt. Beat on medium until fluffy, scraping bowl as needed. Add egg whites, heavy cream, vanilla, and almond extract; beat until combined. Beat in flour. Drop dough by 1/2-cup portions 3 inches apart onto prepared cookie sheets. Flatten mounds to 1/2 inch thick and 3 1/2-inch diameter. Bake until edges are set (cookies will be pale), 13 to 14 minutes. Cool on cookie sheets 2 minutes. Remove; cool completely on wire racks. Make Almond Buttercream Frosting: In an extra-large bowl beat softened salted butter with a mixer on medium to high, 1 to 2 minutes. Beat in powdered sugar. Add heavy cream, almond extract, and salt; beat on low until combined. Gradually beat in powdered sugar just until combined. Beat on medium until fluffy, scraping bowl occasionally, 5 minutes. Add heavy cream and pink gel food coloring; beat on high 1 minute more. Makes 2 3/4 cups. Spread 1/3 cup Almond Buttercream Frosting on top of each cookie. 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Rate It Print Nutrition Facts (per serving) 938 Calories 51g Fat 115g Carbs 7g Protein Show Full Nutrition Label Hide Full Nutrition Label Nutrition Facts Servings Per Recipe 9 Calories 937.5 % Daily Value * Total Fat 51.2g 66% Saturated Fat 32.2g 161% Cholesterol 135.7mg 45% Sodium 788.5mg 34% Total Carbohydrate 114.8g 42% Dietary Fiber 1.4g 5% Total Sugars 74.6g Protein 7.2g 14% Vitamin D 0.1mcg 1% Vitamin C 0mg 0% Calcium 104.2mg 8% Iron 2.6mg 14% Potassium 98.4mg 2% Fatty acids, total trans 2g Vitamin D 5.2IU Alanine 0.3g Arginine 0.3g Ash 3.1g Aspartic acid 0.4g Caffeine 0mg Carotene, alpha 0mcg Choline, total 17.9mg Copper, Cu 0.1mg Cystine 0.1g Energy 3921.3kJ Fluoride, F 2.7mcg Folate, total 95.8mcg Glutamic acid 2.1g Glycine 0.3g Histidine 0.2g Isoleucine 0.3g Leucine 0.5g Lysine 0.3g Methionine 0.2g Magnesium, Mg 14.7mg Manganese, Mn 0.4mg Niacin 3.1mg Phosphorus, P 103.7mg Pantothenic acid 0.4mg Phenylalanine 0.4g Phytosterols 0mg Proline 0.7g Retinol 428mcg Selenium, Se 20.8mcg Serine 0.4g Starch 0.7g Theobromine 0mg Threonine 0.2g Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) 1.5mg Tryptophan 0.1g Tyrosine 0.2g Valine 0.3g Vitamin A, IU 1590.8IU Vitamin A, RAE 436.1mcg Vitamin B-12 0.1mcg Vitamin B-6 0mg Vitamin K (phylloquinone) 4.5mcg Water 31.9g Zinc, Zn 0.4mg *The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.