Fruity Sugar Cookie Recipes

These sugar cookie recipes would be a perfect addition to the Christmas cookie menu 

Mandarin Orange Cookie Treat

This recipe makes 8 quick fruit-flavored cookies. No need to bake these orange-filled cookies since they are made with crushed shortbread cookies. This recipe is best if you have leftover sugar cookies and you have no idea what to do with them, crushed these leftovers and turn them once again into yummy cookies. Serve as a sweet, cold dessert.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups buttermilk (cold)
• 518 ozs vanilla instant pudding mix
• 12 ozs whipped topping (thawed)
• 22 ozs mandarin oranges (drained)
• 1612 ozs fudge (striped shortbread cookies coarsely crushed)

Procedure:

Whisk together buttermilk and pudding mix in a large mixing bowl for 2 minutes. Let mixture rest for several minutes to set. Stir in oranges and whipped topping.  

Cover bowl and keep in refrigerator to chill for one hour. Fold in crushed cookies.

Serve cold!

Lemon-Lime Crunch Cookies

Enjoy these sugar-coated cookies with the touch of lemon and lime. These cookies are made up of flaked coconut, lemon flavored cake mix plus some lemon juice, grated lemon and lime peel which add fantastic citrus flavors!

This recipe makes 18 pieces of sugar cookies.

Ingredients:

12 cup flaked coconut

2 tsps lemon peel (grated)

2 tsps lime peel (grated)

2 cups whipped topping

2 eggs

2 tbsps topping mix (whipped)

1 tsp lemon juice

18 14 ozs cake mix (lemon)

Confectioners’ sugar

Procedure:

Pulse together coconut, lemon peel and lime peel in a food processor or blender. Cover and mix until finely shredded for about 30 seconds. Set aside mixture. Prepare the cake mix by whisking together whipped topping, eggs, dry topping mix and lemon juice in a deep and large mixing bowl.

Combine cake mix and reserved coconut mixture. Mix thoroughly. Have spoonfuls of the mixture and drop each into a bowl of confectioner’s sugar to coat nicely. With your clean bare hands, shape each into cookie balls and then arrange over the greased baking sheets, 2 inches away from each other.

Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until cookie edges appear golden brown.

Cool on wire rack.

Serve warm.  

Sugar Cookies for Everybody

If you think that cookies and other sweet stuff might be for kids only or if you think that you’re too old for those sugary stuff, then you thought wrong indeed.  Yes, children love sweets and treats so much, but grown-ups love these too, whether they admit it or not. Sugar cookies are one of the most demanded cookies in the market, mostly by kids and partly by adults. These are in fact requested during parties and occasions, sugar cookies are also famous during holidays such as Christmas and Halloween because its frostings can make creative designs fit for the occasion. In fact, a lot of people have been putting up this kind of business; they bake and design sugar cookies in line with the theme of your son’s fifth birthday party, your sister’s shower party, or your brother’s graduation, name any type of occasion and they can make your dream cookies come true.

Leaf through this blog to find the recipe for sugar cookies and learn a lot of creative ways to decorate your personalized sugar cookie! 

The Versatile Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookies are considered to be the most versatile among all cookies because unlike all the other cookies, it can be served in all types of occasions you can name. One good thing about sugar cookies is its freedom to design; you can mold it into the shape you like, you can add colors by frosting it and designing smiley faces or anything that comes to mind. Making these cookies is a good way of bonding with your kids because it is fun and easy to make. Here are some of the many possibilities you can do to sugar cookies:

Birthdays

These sugar cookie designs are perfect for your son's 7th birthday party.  You can design or you can order these cookies with your son's favorite cartoon character on it and the kids would surely get excited to start the party. If your son loves animals, then you can make a savanna-themed birthday party for him, with the sugar cookies shaped like zebras, lions, cheetahs, elephants, and many more. 

These girly sugar cookies are fit for your daughter's 9th birthday party. Just choose any design she likes, she can have the Barbie designs or any cartoon character she loves. This would surely be a remarkable birthday party for your daughter and her friends. 

For teenagers, these types of sugar cookies are perfect for them.  Gather your knowledge about your teenage kid and surprise them with a cool birthday party with all their friends over at your house.  You might not understand some or all of teenager stuff, but you can make your kid happy by preparing something for them that they like. 

Holidays and Other Ocassions

During holidays such as Christmas, Valentine’s and Halloween, sugar cookies are very much in demand to celebrate during these special days. Lovers give each other heart-shaped cookies, grandmas bake sugar cookies shaped as snowflakes, Christmas tree, Santa’s face, or a reindeer during Christmas together with their grandchildren, and mothers design Jack o’ lantern and Frankenstein cookies during Halloween.

Sugar cookies are also perfect during weddings, stag parties, and shower parties because you can design it as the bride and groom, as lingerie, or whatever design you like. This just proves that sugar cookies are really versatile and can be present in all occasions.  

Sugar Cookie Recipe

This recipe is the best sugar cookie recipe you can find; this is exactly what you’ve been looking for. Try making these sugar cookies with your kids and have fun decorating it with them. This is a good quality time with your family.  Or you can have your kids design the cookies all by themselves and discover how artistic your child is. This sugar cookie recipe is an easy one and time-saving as well.

Yields 60 cookies

Ingredients (for cookies):

•          1 ½ cups softened unsalted butter
•          2 cups white sugar
•          4 medium eggs
•          1 teaspoon vanilla extract
•          5 cups all-purpose flour
•          1 teaspoon salt
•          2 teaspoons baking powder

Directions

1.  Prepare a large mixing bowl and mix together sugar and butter until sugar particles are dissolved and smooth.  Add in salt, flour, and baking powder; combine thoroughly. Cover bowl with tight fitting lid or plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. 
2. After chilling, preheat oven to 400° degrees Fahrenheit.  Roll out dough on a floured surface at least ¼ to ½ inch thick. Continue rolling until the batter is completely mixed.  You can put and cut into molders/cookie cutter or you can mold the batter with your bare hands.  Prepare the ungreased cookie sheets and place molded cookies at least 1 inch apart.
3.  Start baking for 8 minutes until cookies’ edges are golden brown. Remove from the oven and let it cool for a couple of minutes.
4.  You can now design your cookies using its frosting.  

Ingredients (for frosting):

•   1 cup confectioner’s sugar
• Assorted food coloring
•  2 teaspoons light corn syrup
•  2 teaspoons milk
•  ¼ teaspoon almond extract

Directions:

1.  Combine together confectioner’s sugar and milk in a small mixing bowl; mix until smooth.  Afterwards, stir in almond extract and corn syrup until frosting is soft and silky. If icing becomes too thick, pour additional corn syrup until smooth.
2.  Prepare separate small bowls for each color and divide the icing equally for each bowl.  Mix the coloring and icing, add more coloring if you want a darker shade.
3.  Dip the baked sugar cookies into the frosting of desired color or you can design anything in the cookies using pastry or piping bags. 
4. After designing, let it dry completely for at least 5-8 hours.

Sugar Cookie Recipe on YouTube

This video shows the easy steps on how to bake and frost sugar cookies in creative ways. Sugar cookies are sweet and tender cutout cookie with wonderfully crisp edges. The baking soda is very important for the recipe because it gives the cookies those nice crisp edges everybody loves. The dos and don'ts of baking these cookies are also said in the video. Learn baking by just watching this video. This video shows how baking can be so fun at the same time you're learning without you even noticing it.