We consider this the best sugar cookie recipe out there—because it's the kind your grandma or even great-grandma would recognize. Baking homemade sugar cookies from scratch is a time-honored tradition, after all! With a tender, short texture that comes from a good buttery base, these sugar cookies break with just the right balance of bend and snap. And the taste? Perfection.

When it comes to the perfect cutout sugar cookie recipe, there's one more crucial factor to consider: how easy your cookies are to decorate! We've developed a simple icing that's easily tintable, covers smoothly, and dries firmly so that you can stack your finished cutout cookies without fear of smudging them. We love dressing them up in holiday style as festive Christmas sugar cookies! However you choose to decorate your sugar cookies with icing, they’re sure to impress friends and family.

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