Soft & Chewy Sugar Cookies
Puffy sugar cookies that are soft on the insides with a nice textural crunch on the outside.
Ingredients
- 50 g unsalted butter room temperature
- 60 g cane sugar
- 12 g egg about 1/2 egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp sour cream or greek yogurt
- 90 g all purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- pinch salt
- coarse sugar for rolling cookies
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Cream together butter and sugar and then egg and beat until light and fluffy. Mix in sour cream and vanilla extract.
- Mix together flour, baking soda and salt and fold into the butter mixture. Using a spoon, take a scoop the batter and shape into balls, about 6. Roll it in coarse sugar and place it on a parchment lined baking sheet. Repeat with the rest of the batter, leaving about 4" gap in between each cookie ball.
- Bake for about 10 minutes or until the edges begin to look golden. Remove and let cool before transfering to a cooling rack. Enjoy!
Notes
*sour cream or greek yogurt: add sour cream or greek yogurt for fluffier softer, almost scone like cookies.
*baking soda: when using sour cream, it introduces an acidic element to the mix which causes the baking soda to be even more reactive. The cookie would call for 1/4 tsp baking powder but to balance that out the chemistry, I omitted this.
Recipe adapted from Live, Love & Sugar.