Iced Sugar Cookies

These Iced Sugar Cookies are soft, tender and taste just like your favorite bakery style cookie with a sweet & creamy frosting. Perfect any time you’re craving a soft healthy sugar cookie and a favorite for holiday cookie trays!

Ingredients you need

• Eggs
• Vegan butter (ghee or unsalted butter work if not dairy-free)
• Granulated maple sugar (or preferred granulated sugar / sweetener)
• Vanilla extract
• Pure almond extract (optional but adds that sugar-cookie flavor)
• Fine blanched almond flour
• Tapioca flour (starch) or arrowroot flour (starch)
• Coconut flour
• Baking soda
• Fine grain sea salt
• Festive green, white and red sprinkles or nonpareils

Frosting

• Dairy-free cream cheese or regular cream cheese if not dairy-free, we like Kite Hill or Miyokos
• Vegan butter, refined coconut oil or regular butter if not dairy-free
• Pure maple syrup or preferred sticky liquid sweetener
• Vanilla extract

How to make Frosted Sugar Cookies

1. Preheat the oven to 350F degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs with melted butter, sugar and vanilla.
3. Add a large fine mesh sieve over the bowl and sift in the flours and baking soda (or sift beforehand in another large bowl and stir in). Stir in the salt.
4. Chill the dough in the fridge for 10-15 minutes.
5. Form dough into 1 ½-inch – 2 inch balls. Place each ball on the baking sheet, leaving a 2-inch space between each dough ball.
6. Lightly press down on each dough ball. Bake for 8-10 minutes. The cookies will still be soft, but the edges are set and the bottom of the cookie will just be starting to brown. The cookies will continue to cook as they cool. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
7. Meanwhile, beat together all the frosting ingredients. Taste and add more maple syrup as needed for easier spreading.
8. Once the cookies are cool, use an offset spatula to spread evenly onto each cooled cookie. Top with festive sprinkles and enjoy.

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Frosted Sugar Cookies

Prep Time

20 mins

Cook Time

10 mins

Chill Time

1 hr

Total Time

1 hr 30 mins

 

These Frosted Sugar Cookies are soft, tender and taste just like your favorite bakery style cookie with a sweet & creamy frosting. Perfect any time you're craving a soft healthy sugar cookie and a favorite for holiday cookie trays!

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: frosted sugar cookies, gluten free sugar cookies, icing for sugar cookies, lofthouse frosted sugar cookies, lofthouse sugar cookies, soft sugar cookies, vanilla buttercream

Servings: 12 cookies

Author: Kelly

Ingredients

• 2 large eggs room temperature
• ½ cup vegan butter melted (ghee or unsalted butter work if not dairy-free)
• ¾ cup granulated maple sugar or preferred granulated sugar / sweetener
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• ¼ teaspoon pure almond extract optional but adds that sugar-cookie flavor
• 2 cups fine blanched almond flour
• 2 tablespoons tapioca flour starch or arrowroot flour (starch)
• 2 tablespoons coconut flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
• ⅛ teaspoon fine grain sea salt
• Festive green white and red sprinkles or nonpareils
• Frosting
• 8 oz softened dairy-free cream cheese or regular cream cheese if not dairy-free we like Kite Hill or Miyokos
• 3 tbsp softened vegan butter refined coconut oil or regular butter if not dairy-free
• 3-4 tbsp pure maple syrup or preferred sticky liquid sweetener
• 2/3 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350F degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs with melted butter, sugar and vanilla.
3. Add a large fine mesh sieve over the bowl and sift in the flours and baking soda (or sift beforehand in another large bowl and stir in). Stir in the salt.
4. Chill the dough in the fridge for 10-15 minutes.
5. Form dough into 1 ½-inch - 2 inch balls. Place each ball on the baking sheet, leaving a 2-inch space between each dough ball.
6. Lightly press down on each dough ball. Bake for 8-10 minutes. The cookies will still be soft, but the edges are set and the bottom of the cookie will just be starting to brown. The cookies will continue to cook as they cool. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
7. Meanwhile, beat together all the frosting ingredients. Taste and add more maple syrup as needed for easier spreading.
8. Once the cookies are cool, use an offset spatula to spread evenly onto each cooled cookie. Top with festive sprinkles and enjoy.

Nutrition Facts

Frosted Sugar Cookies

Amount Per Serving (1 cookie)

Calories 0

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