Favorite sugar cookie recipe?

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Purple M&M Cookies

The last 2 cookies I made (the m&m bars and the chewy butter cookies) were both good, however nothing is as good as my blue m&m cookies. Blue m&m cookies and the mini chip roll out cookies are my 2 most favorite cookie recipes. So theyre always what I want the very most and I usually have some frozen so that theyre available at all times. Howver I ran out of both a while ago so last night I had to make some more blue m&m cookies but this time I made purple m&m cookies. Same recipe, just purple instead of blue. Thought I would make purple instead of blue since its almost halloween. And I couldnt possibly make the cookies orange or black. Those 2 colors and yellow and brown are all my very least favorite colors.

Purple m&m cookies

(same recipe as blue m&m cookies, except substitute purple food coloring for blue food coloring)

Click HERE for recipe.

Self-raising flour

Self-raising flour

original source

215 g (2 1/2 cup) all-purpose flour (plain flour)
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp fine salt

Funfetti Gooey Butter Cookies

FUNFETTI GOOEY BUTTER COOKIES

(adapted from HERE and HERE)

1/4 cup butter

1/4 cup Crisco

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 (8oz) pkg cream cheese

1 Funfetti cake mix

2 cups mini vanilla chips

powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350. In large mixing bowl, beat butter and cream cheese until creamy. Add egg and vanilla, beat well. Gradually beat in cake mix. Add and Mix in mini chips on low speed just till combined. Cover and refrigerate 2 hrs. Roll dough into Tablespoon sized balls and then roll them in the powdered sugar. Bake 10 min at 350.

m&m sugar cookie bars

M&M SUGAR COOKIE BARS

original recipe: click HERE

Ingredients:
1 stick butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
3/4 tsp. vanilla extract
1.5 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
M&Ms

Directions;
1- Preheat the oven to 350.
2- Melt the butter in a large mixing bowl. Stir in the sugar.
3- Once it's slightly cooled (about 3 minutes) beat in the egg and vanilla.
4- In a separate bowl combine the flour and baking powder. Stir this into the wet mixture.
5- Pour into a greased 8x5 baking dish (or similar size). Bake for approximately 15 minutes.
6- Pull out of the oven and top with M&Ms, gently pressing them into the dough.
7- Return to the oven and bake for an additional 10-12 minutes, or until the top is set and the cookies don't wiggle when you shake the pan. They should still be white with barely golden edges.
8- Cool completely in the pan before slicing. Yields 8 cookie bars.

Mini Chip Cut-out Cookies

PHOTO SOURCE: CREATEDBYDIANE

This is officially my new favorite cookie recipe EVER. Of all cookies I've ever made or tried. And I've tried a lot. So that's to say a lot. History behind this cookie: when I was little, we had a Mrs fields cookie shop at our mall and every time I went there, I had to get a cookie monster cookie. They were soooo good. They were thick cut-out cookie monster cookies with tons of bright blue butter cream frosting. But it wasn't a frosted "sugar" cookie, it was a frosted chocolate chip cut out cookie. And I remember always thinking that that was so cool. Yet at the time, It never even crossed my mind that I could one day make my own cookie just like it. I was way too young. The only thing I knew how to bake was nestle toll house original chocolate chip cookies that always came out super flat and gross, but even that was a huge accomplishment for me. The Internet was also a new thing at that time. We had one computer and It ran super slow and wasn't even worth taking the time to use it. Blogger sites didn't yet exist and so it wasn't as easy to research recipes or get blogger inspiration. But through the years, Ive always remembered my cookie monster cookie and then when I saw a recipe for mini chip cut out cookies on both nestles site as well as sugarbelles site, I knew It was possible to replicate my favorite long lost cookie. BTW: Ive looked online to see if Mrs fields still makes those same cookie monster cookies and they don't): But If I ever find a picture of one, I'll for sure post it. One blogger actually happened to make some cookie monster mini chip cut out cookies. HERE'S the link. (that's her photo I have posted above) I wonder if she used to buy them too when she was young(: So tonight I didn't actually make mini chip cookie monster cutouts, instead I made mini chip "heart" cutouts. I don't have a cookie monster cookie cutter yet, but as soon as I get one... Regardless, this was the same concept, same taste, and honestly this is the best cookie Ive ever had. Not just because of my childhood memory, but holy shiz! this is a really good recipe!

Mini Chip Cut-out Cookies

(adapted from THIS recipe)

(or adapted from THIS recipe)

1 cup butter (unsalted)

1 c powdered sugar

1/3 cup brown sugar

1 large egg yolk

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 1/2 cups flour

1 cup white mini chips

1 cup milk chocolate mini chips

Cream together the butter and sugars. To that add the vanilla, salt, and egg yolk. Add flour one cup at a time until completely incorporated. Then, BY HAND or on low speed w/ mixer, fold in the mini chips.

*MEANWHILE, PREHEAT YOUR OVEN TO 350°*

While you wait for the oven to warm, wrap your dough in plastic wrap and chill for at least thirty minutes. When it is chilled, roll out cookies on lightly floured parchment and bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes. (I rolled mine like 1/2" thick)

Frost cooled cookies however desired. For the purple heart cookies pictured above I used Royal Icing (this particular recipe.)

Royal Icing

Purple Moon Cookie (cookie dough: Bakeat350)

Royal Icing

1 egg white

2 to 2.5 cups powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Assorted Food Colors

Beat egg white w/ electric mixer at high speed until foamy. Gradually add 2 cups powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat at low speed until moistened. increases mixer speed to high again and beat until icing is stiff, adding additional powdered sugar if needed. Add desired food colorings (optional).