Soft Sour Cream Cookies w/Buttercream Frosting
These are seriously the best kind of cookies for the holidays! So pillowy soft, and lightly sweetened, these bakery style Best Soft Sour Cream Cookies iced with tantalizing Buttercream Frosting make these the bestest sugar cookies in the land!
Servings: 24 Cookies
Calories:
Ingredients
Best Sour Cream Cookies
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup (8 oz) sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ salt
Buttercream Frosting
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened or room temperature
- 2 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons milk of choice
- ¼ teaspoon salt optional
- Optional: gel color for color tinted frosting
Decorative accessories
- Sprinkles Sugars, Nonpareils, Dragees, Jimmies
Instructions
Best Sour Cream Cookies
- In a separate bowl, combine and whisk flour, soda, powder and salt together, set aside.
- Cream shortening, sugar, eggs, sour cream and vanilla together, then slowly combine flour mixture to cream mixture.
- After combined, chill dough for at least 1 hour
- Drop by spoonful or 1/4 cup scoop and line baking sheets with parchment paper, 6 per sheet, these will spread a little.
- Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes until edges are golden and the centers are set.
- Let cool.
Buttercream Frosting
- Using a mixer, beat butter, powdered sugar, vanilla and milk and beat until smooth, adding additional sugar or milk to reach desired consistency.
- Color if desired and spread on cooled cookies.
- Add decorative accessories and let frosting set on cookies.