54 Sugar Cookie Recipes That Will Bring Major Wow-Factor

Chef Jon Ashton is showing us his tricks to making the best sugar cookies at home, with this easy sugar cookie recipe. 

Get the recipe: Best Homemade Sugar Cookie

These sugar cookies are not too sweet and all dressed up with edible holiday decorations! Nothing says winter better than snowflakes and there’s nothing more delicious than these soft and buttery snowflake sugar cookies.

Get the recipe: Snowflake Sugar Cookies

These simple sugar cookies can also be baked without sprinkles and then decorated with royal icing.

Get the recipe: Simple Sugar Cookies

These yuletide pinwheel sugar cookies are definitely festive and perfect for the holidays! 

Get the recipe: Yuletide Pinwheel Sugar Cookies

Tart and sweet orange is mixed with spicy and fragrant cardamom for an absolutely delicious eggless & dairy-free sugar cookie.

Get the recipe: Vegan Orange Cardamom Sugar Cookies

These cookies are tender, moist, and filled with warming spices! If you like the flavor of cinnamon, ginger, soft gingersnaps, or molasses, these warm and comforting cookies will be your new favorites!

Get the recipe: Softbatch Cookie Butter Brown Sugar Cookies

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.

Get the recipe: The Softest Sugar Cookies

Red velvet sugar cookies are perfect any time of year and take only 20 minutes to make.

Get the recipe: Red Velvet Sugar Cookies

You’ll love these simple, fresh lemon tarts with no finicky crusts. Just bite-sized lemony-goodness with a sweet sugar cookie crust.

Get the recipe: Sugar Cookie Lemon Tarts

Easy and delicious vegan pumpkin sugar cookies with a simple vanilla icing! Completely gluten free and dairy free, these cookies are fun to make and perfect for the holidays!

Get the recipe: Vegan Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

With just eight simple ingredients, these matcha cookies are truly an easy and delicious vegan and eggless cookie recipe.

Get the recipe: Vegan Matcha Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookies just got better with a little pumpkin! This recipe creates soft, chewy, lightly spicy glazed pumpkin sugar cookies that are perfect for fall!

Get the recipe: Soft Glazed Pumpkin Sugar Cookies

These root beer float sugar cookies bring a summertime staple in the form of a cookie. The root beer flavor is subtle, not too powerful, but enough of a flavor to transform a simple sugar cookie into a unique treat.

Get the recipe: Root Beer Float Sugar Cookies

These lemon sugar cookies are super soft, and so easy to make. Lemon sugar cookies with soft lemon frosting – they make the perfect treat!

Get the recipe: Lemon Sugar Cookies

Delicious chewy sugar cookie bars made with brown butter. This adds such amazing flavor and the salted caramel buttercream on top is the best part!

Get the recipe: Brown Butter Sugar Cookie Bars with Samated Caramel Buttercream

The best almond flour sugar cookies! Soft in the middle and crispy on the edges. Easy to roll out and perfect for cut-outs!

Get the recipe: Almond Flour Sugar Cookies

This basic sugar cookie recipe is classic, and it’s my favorite go-to dessert recipe. These easy, soft sugar cookies go amazingly with Nutella, frosting, and pretty much everything else!

Get the recipe: Basic Sugar Cookies

These coconut flour sugar cookies are perfectly crispy and sweet. You would never think they are made from coconut flour.

Get the recipe: Coconut Flour Sugar Cookies

Birthday sugar cookies are the softest homemade sugar cookies covered in fun sprinkles that taste like a perfect birthday cake!

Get the recipe: Birthday Cake Sugar Cookies

Soft maple sugar cookies are perfect for the holidays or any time you’re craving a sweet sugar cookie that literally melts in your mouth.

Get the recipe: Soft Maple Sugar Cookies

An easy and delicious slice-and-bake sugar cookie recipe!

Get the recipe: Easy Slice-and-Bake Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookie dough without the eggs, so it is meant for eating!! Satisfy your sweet tooth in about 5 minutes with this recipe!

Get the recipe: Egg-Free Sugar Cookie Dough

Donut sugar cookies topped with icing and sprinkles are the best recipe for soft cut out sugar cookies made from scratch!

Get the recipe: Donut Sugar Cookies

Feel like a kid again with these super easy to make Circus Animal Sugar Cookies! Homemade sprinkled sugar cookies topped with frosted animal cookies!

Get the recipe: Circus Animal Sugar Cookies

Dark chocolate brown sugar cookies have the perfect chewy texture on the inside with just a bit of crisp on the outside.

Get the recipe: Dark Chocolate Brown Sugar Cookies

These Lofthouse-style paleo cookies are easy to cut with cookie cutters, so you can have paleo shaped cookies for every holiday!

Get the recipe: Lofthouse-Style Paleo Sugar Cookies

These will be some of the best pumpkin cookies you ever try! The frosting on top is out of this world and the perfect compliment to these delicious cookies!

Get the recipe: Soft Pumpkin Sugar Cookies with Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting

These keto fathead sugar cookies use a low carb dough and are perfect for the holidays!

Get the recipe: Keto Fathead Sugar Cookies

Brown sugar cookies made with dark brown sugar and butter are sweet, soft, chewy, and the perfect spin on the traditional cookie ready in under 30 minutes!

Get the recipe: Brown Sugar Cookies

These copycat Lofthouse sugar cookies have a delicious buttery vanilla flavor, delicate crumb, and melt in your mouth. Then they’re topped with creamy frosting & tons of sprinkles.

Get the recipe: Copycat Lofthouse Sugar Cookies

Super soft sugar cookies with a delicate vanilla flavor and texture. They’re so good that you’ll want to eat them all as soon as they’re out of the oven. You’ve been warned!

Get the recipe: Pillowy Soft Sugar Cookies

Sour cream sugar cookies are so tender and soft. This cake-like cookie is made rich with sour cream and butter and will so become a family favorite.

Get the recipe: Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

Soft sugar cookies are perfect for the holiday season, birthdays, or any time you want a sweet treat!

Get the recipe: Perfect Sugar Cookies

These maple sugar cookies are soft cut-out sugar cookies with crisp, defined edges that are loaded with maple syrup flavor – no chilling required, and ready in about 30 minutes!

Get the recipe: Maple Sugar Cookies

This recipe for cinnamon roll cookies is simple to make and will have you looking like a total baking rock star. You won’t believe how delicious these cookies are!

Get the recipe: Cinnamon Roll Sugar Cookies

The perfect soft and chewy sugar cookies: just the right amount of softness with a tiny bit of chewiness and a buttery vanilla taste. Simple and easy recipe.

Get the recipe: Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies

Chewy, soft sugar cookies are the perfect treat for any occasion. This no-chill dough recipe is super easy and results in the perfect drop sugar cookie.

Get the recipe: Soft Sugar Cookies

These bakery-style sugar cookies are thick, lightly crisp around the edges, but oh, so soft and chewy in the middle.

Get the recipe: Bakery-Style Sugar Cookies

These lemon sugar cookies are soft and chewy and with the perfect amount of citrus to bring sunshine to your day.

Get the recipe: Lemon Sugar Cookies

Soft, puffy, melt-in-your-mouth Amish sugar cookies! This sugar cookie recipe could not be easier and they’re made with common pantry ingredients!

Get the recipe: Amish Sugar Cookies

These soft baked cutout sugar cookies are made with homemade frosting and are such a simple classic christmas cookie recipe.

Get the recipe: Soft Baked Cutout Sugar Cookies

Peppermint white chocolate sugar cookies for a sparkling holiday treat!

Get the recipe: Peppermint Sugar Cookies

All butter sugar cookies are soft and sweet cookies topped with a buttery vanilla frosting. Easy sugar cookie recipe made with simple pantry ingredients that yields about a dozen cookies.

Get the recipe: Butter Sugar Cookies

These soft and chewy 4-Ingredient Sugar Cookies are made without eggs or cake mix and don’t require chilling or rolling. So simple, so good! Perfect for a quick and easy dessert!

Get the recipe: 4-Ingredient Sugar Cookies

This funfetti sugar cookie recipe is soft and chewy, bakes up puffy, and is super easy to make with a delicious vanilla bean flavour. The cookies are filled with rainbow sprinkles for a fun and easy take on the classic sugar cookie.

Get the recipe: Funfetti Sugar Cookies

These chocolate cut out sugar cookies put a fun spin on the classic we all know and love! They’re super soft, chocolatey, and hold their shape well.

Get the recipe: Super Soft Chocolate Cut Out Sugar Cookies

Low carb keto sugar cookies with coconut flour are perfect for any holiday! This 20-minute keto sugar cookie recipe has sugar-free options for sprinkles and frosting, too.

Get the recipe: Keto Sugar Cookies

Soft, chewy cream cheese sugar cookies. This easy cut out sugar cookie recipe stays soft because of cream cheese.

Get the recipe: Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies

This easy sugar cookie recipe is the only one I use – especially for holidays like Christmas! I’ve been baking these cookies for years – the recipe is simple and the dough is perfect for cut-out cookie decorating.

Get the recipe: Easy Sugar Cookies

Save time this holiday season with this easy Christmas sugar cookie bars. They’re extra soft with a thick layer of frosting, and way less work than sugar cookies!

Get the recipe: Christmas Sugar Cookie Bars

Cookie bites are tiny versions of our best sugar cookie recipe that are just as soft and tender. Make these mini sugar cookies today in just 30 minutes!

Get the recipe: Sugar Cookie Bites

These frosted sugar cookie bars are soft, chewy and topped with homemade buttercream frosting and sprinkles. These cookie bars are made in a sheet pan and can easily feed a crowd.

Get the recipe: Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars

These frosted eggnog cookies are made with a soft sugar cookie recipe that’s spiked with eggnog, and have a gorgeous swirl of eggnog frosting on top.

Get the recipe: Frosted Eggnog Cookies

These decadent chocolate sugar cookies are supremely soft and chewy! They don’t need to be chilled before baking and they stay soft for days!

Get the recipe: Chocolate Sugar Cookies