18 Easy Ways to Make the Best Sugar Cookies

These buttery sugar cookie bars have green sprinkled inside and are decorated with green frosting and a heart that’s two sizes too small. You’ll love munching on these while watching your favorite grinch movie!

For those familiar with the famous Swig soda stand sugar cookies, this is an easy and near perfect copycat recipe! These easy sugar cookies are made with basic ingredients, scooped and pressed onto a baking sheet, then softly baked to keep them light and tender. Topped off with a simple pink frosting, there’s a reason these cookies are legendary!

These easy cookies are basically hot chocolate in sugar cookie form! Filled with chocolate chips and mini marshmallows, biting into one of these warm cookies is the ultimate cookie experience – especially if you love chocolate as much as we do.

The addition of crushed frosted circus animal cookies brings an extra fun twist to these vibrant sugar cookies! An easy recipe that leads to perfect, brightly colored and sugary flavored cookies.

Simple to make and fun to decorate, sugar cookie bars are a delicious and incredibly easy alternative to classic sugar cookie recipes. These soft cookies leave out the chilling, rolling and cutting of the dough; all that’s needed is to press the dough into a pan!

Simple, buttery sugar cookies get a fun festive twist with the addition of Fruity Pebbles cereal! Bright and colorful cereal pieces bring a new layer of flavor to a classic sugar cookie recipe.

An easy way to infuse your sugar cookies with the flavors of fall is to make them with brown sugar and maple syrup! These chewy homemade brown sugar cookies are really something special.

Another easy recipe for soft sugar cookie bars, this time without the gluten! This recipe for gluten-free cookies is pressed into a pan and then baked to soft and chewy perfection; another great way to make sugar cookies for any diet!

These are the perfect chocolate sugar cookies with a crispy outside crust and fluffy chocolate center. An easy twist on a classic cookie recipe, and the best sugar cookie recipe for chocolate lovers!

These candy cane cookies put a literal twist on classic sugar cookie dough – flavored with peppermint for extra authenticity! Kids will love this fun an easy way to make festive holiday sugar cookies.

These easy frosted sugar cookies made from scratch are the best cookies to bake with kids. You’ll also find tips for making the best possible sugar cookies and brightest frosting!

You really can’t go wrong with classic, soft sugar cookies; and this is the perfect way to make them with only 10 minutes in the oven! A simple and melt-in-your-mouth cookie recipe that can be enjoyed plain or frosted.

This easy Christmas Cookie idea takes buttery, delicious vanilla cookies and turns them into adorable decorative holiday wreaths! A fun recipe for cutting out and decorating your Christmas holiday sugar cookies.

Discover the secret to the most perfectly textured, light and chewy cookies with this recipe for pumpkin sugar cookies. A festive fall-inspired snickerdoodle recipe that’s so easy to follow!

This recipe for soft and chewy sugar cookie dough holds its shape for perfect cut-out cookies! Any shape your heart desires, decorated with a rich and simple buttercream; a great recipe for Christmas cookies, or for any special occasion.

If you love cinnamon rolls, then this is the cookie recipe for you! An easy way to make delicious cinnamon roll-inspired sugar cookies by rolling the dough with cinnamon sugar and then slathering the finished cookies with a decadent cream cheese frosting.

Maple syrup and pecan butter turn your average sugar cookie into something really in a league of its own. These sweet and nutty cookies are ideal for any autumn occasion!

An easy holiday sugar cookie recipe certified by the world’s #1 cookie fan: Santa Claus! This is one of the best ways to make sugar cookies in cutout shapes, perfect for decorating. These are sure to be your new favorite cookies to leave out with milk every year!

These cookies are a maple flavor overload, in the best of ways. Soft and chewy maple sugar cookies pressed and then baked, topped with a deliciously sweet maple frosting – a tasty and easy fall dessert!