Easy recipe for how to make the best sugar cookies with buttercream frosting. These giant cookies cookies are soft and cake like with sweet creamy icing.
Prep Time: 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time: 11 minutesminutes
Total Time: 26 minutesminutes
Servings: 2giant cookies
Ingredients
Sugar Cookie
1cupbuttersoftened
3/4cupsugar
2eggs
1/2tspvanilla
1tspbaking powder
1tspsalt
3 1/3cupsflour
Buttercream Frosting
1cupbuttersoftened
4cupsicing sugar
1tsppure vanilla
4tbspmilk
food colouring pasteblue, red, brown
Instructions
Sugar Cookie
In a stand mixer cream together the butter, sugar, egg and vanilla until smooth.
With the mixer on low, slowly beat in the baking powder, salt and flour. Add a bit of flour at a time, letting it mix in with the butter and sugar, before adding more.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 2-3 hours to chill.
Divide the dough in two. Take one portion and place on a silicone baking sheet. Roll to 3/8 inch even thickness. Place the football stencil on top and using a butter knife, cut along the stencil and remove the excess dough. Do the remaining with the second portion of dough and cut into the shape of the NFL logo. Remove the excess dough. The excess dough can be used to make extra sugar cookies (either large or small).
Place the silicone sheets with the cutout cookie dough on baking sheets. Bake in a 350F oven for 11-15 minutes. The sides and corners of the cookies should just barely be starting to brown.
Remove the cookies from the oven and cool to room temperature.
Buttercream Frosting
Place the butter in stand mixer bowl and beat on high for a few minutes to whip. Butter should get light in colour and almost fluffy. If necessary, scrape down the sides of the bowl can beat some more.
Lower the mixture to a medium speed and slowly add the icing sugar until all combined and smooth.
Beat in the vanilla and milk until smooth.
Divide the frosting into four portions. While leaving one portion white, colour the other three portions with the blue, red and brown food colouring.
Decorate the sugar cookies following the directions of the pictures in the post.