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Soft Lofthouse Cookies
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Best Soft Lofthouse Cookies

These homemade whimsical Soft Lofthouse Cookies taste just like vanilla birthday cake, complete with fluffy frosting and rainbow sprinkles, only in cookie form. It's a familiar favorite copycat recipe and are way better than the store-bought cookies you find in the store. 
Prep Time30 minutes
Total Time2 hours 30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Keyword: buttercream frosting, cookies, lofthouse cookies, party dessert, sugar cookies
Servings: 12 Servings
Calories:
Author: Kim Lange

Ingredients

Lofthouse Copycat Cookies

  • 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour plus more for surface
  • ¼ cup cornstarch
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoonsalt
  • ½ cup butter softened
  • 4 oz. cream cheese softened
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • optional: 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Buttercream Frosting

  • ¾ cup butter softened
  • 2 ¾ cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tablespoons heavy cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • Food coloring
  • Sprinkles for decorating

Instructions

How to Make Soft Lofthouse Cookies

  • In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt together, set aside.
  • In another large bowl using a hand mixer, beat butter, cream cheese, and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla extract and beat until well combined. Add dry ingredients and beat until just combined.
  • Transfer dough to plastic wrap and smooth into a disc. Dough will still be soft and sticky at this point. Refrigerate dough until well chilled, at least 1 hour.
  • Preheat oven to 350° and line 2 large baking sheets with parchment. Lightly flour surface and place dough on counter. Dust top of dough with flour as well. Roll dough out to ½” thick. Use a 3” round cookie cutter to cut cookies and place on prepared baking sheets 2” apart. Gather scraps and re-roll to cut to cut out more cookies.
  • Bake until edges are just set, but centers are still slightly underdone, 10 to 12 minutes until they are set and it is very important not to overbake them. Let cool completely on baking sheets.

Buttercream Frosting

  • In a large bowl, using a hand mixer, beat softened butter, heavy cream, vanilla, salt and powdered sugar until completely smooth and creamy approximately 2-5 minutes. Add desired food coloring and beat again to combine.
  • Use an offset spatula to frost tops of cooled cookies with a thick amount of frosting, then top with sprinkles.