Lofthouse sugar cookies recipe: a small batch of the copycat grocery store sugar cookies with colorful frosting and sprinkles.
Hey there! Did you miss me yesterday? I don’t think I’ve ever missed a Monday post in the 6 years I’ve been writing this blog. Back when I gave birth on a Friday, I checked in on Monday.
Anyway, on Saturday I skipped a meal because life was crazy, which lead to a little hypoglycemia attack. The cure for hypoglycemia is just to eat something—ANYTHING! But I just couldn’t. Nothing sounded good. I sucked on a few crackers, and made my bed of misery. Luckily, my sweet husband saved me with trashy tv on the ipad—none other than The Bachelor. I spent Saturday night not entirely sure if my sickness was brought on by blood sugar spikes or if it coincided with every time Lace acted insecure and crazy. (Make eye contact with me!!!)
Anyway, I got a few hours of sleep, and then spent all of Sunday trying to think of games to play with Camille that involved me laying on the floor asleep while she entertained herself. Death warmed over, I was. I finally caved and drove my sorry self to Arby’s. I’m not proud, but a giant curly fry order and a Dr. Pepper really cured me.
All this to say, eating super duper healthy and doing a pantry purge so there is nothing in the house to snack on is dangerous. I’m now convinced my body needs a healthy amount of fried food and sugar on the reg. Not only did sweet baby Jesus grant me salvation, but he also made my body require sugar and fried food. Hashtag blessed.
So, COOKIES. Have you had Lofthouse cookies? You totally have. They are the cookies the grocery stores sell with the thick frosting and pretty sprinkles. Lofthouse sugar cookies are super soft and puffy, and the icing is so sweet it’ll make your teeth hurt. But, the sprinkles make you smile!
These cookies are my husband’s kryptonite.
So, I scaled them down to make a mere half dozen so we wouldn’t be tempted to binge on 2 dozen cookies in 48 hours. It’s totally happened. More than once.
Ahem.
Six petite fluffy little Lofthouse sugar cookies, all for you.
Try my recipe for plain small batch easy sugar cookies, too!
Small Batch Lofthouse Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg yolk
- 4 tablespoons heavy cream*
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt
For the frosting:
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon heavy cream
- sprinkles!
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 and line a baking sheet with a silicone liner. (In my experience, silicone liners prevent cookies from spreading too much in the oven).
- Next, make the cookies: In a medium-size bowl, add the butter and beat on medium speed with an electric mixer. Beat for about 10 seconds to break it up.
- Add the sugar to the butter, and beat until fluffy, about 45 seconds.
- Next, add the egg yolk, heavy cream, and vanilla. Beat to combine.
- Evenly sprinkle the flour, baking powder and salt over the batter, and beat until just combined.
- The dough will be a little softer than regular cookies, but you should still be able to work with it. (See note about using milk below).
- Press the dough down into the bottom of the bowl and use your hand to lightly score it in half. From each half of dough, you should get three balls of dough.
- Place each dough ball in your hands, and roll it into a perfect ball. Place each ball, evenly spaced, on the prepared baking sheet.
- Press the cookies to flatten them slightly.
- Bake for 14-15 minutes. The tops will appear dry when they're done.
- Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute before moving them to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, mix together all of the frosting ingredients (except the sprinkles) in a bowl using an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
- Frost the cookies once they have cooled, and decorate with sprinkles to serve.
Notes
*Say you want to make these cookies, but you don't have cream. I hear ya. It happens to me all the time. I stirred in whole milk once, and the batter was way too soft to make cookies. BUT, I put the dough in the fridge for 15 minutes, baked them anyway, and they were just fine! The cookies are best with cream, but if all you have is milk, it will still work.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 371 Total Fat: 21g Saturated Fat: 13g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 7g Cholesterol: 114mg Sodium: 102mg Carbohydrates: 42g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 25g Protein: 4g
I adapted this recipe from the lovely Ashley over at Center Cut Cook.
Also, since this recipe uses only the egg yolk, be sure to check out my ways to use the leftover egg white.
These are so pretty! And it’s important to always have cookies on hand to keep yourself healthy… I hope you’re feeling better!!
hey girl- I’m glad your feeling better! These cookies look amazing! Yummy!
Can’t thank you enough for scaling these down! My 97 year old grandma made these for years and years with buttermilk and nutmeg! In the summer they got a sprinkle of ‘coarse’ sugar and giant plump raisin in the center, (Muscat?) and in the winter the best buttercream I’ve ever tasted! But her recipe makes scads! At the time, there were 9 of us, so it worked. And for my 4 kids it did too!
Now for my empty nest, I am feeling blessed for a small batch!
Sometimes a body just craves a little junk. I don’t really believe that. But some protein and oil would do the trick in stabilizing a roller coastering b. S. issue! You just found a really fun way to do it.
http://www.babycenter.com/0_40-ways-to-entertain-your-kids-while-lying-down_10350158.bc
Some of these won’t be useful just yet…but hang on to in the future!
PS These cookies look amazing.
HAHAHAHAHA, Barbara. Thank you :)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who gets like that when I skip a meal! I’ve DEF been there!
which is why we should always have pretty little sugar cookies like these around to munch on :P
I have tried to clean out all snacks from the house with similar (but way less dramatic) results…we all need a little junk food in our lives, right? These cookies are too pretty! We are a family of 3 so no need for a whole batch lying around that’s for sure!
You can’t go wrong with Lofthouse! Love that these are small-batch!
These cookies are adorable. Happy Valentines
Oh no! I hope you’re feeling all better now Christina! My Mama always warned me that eating too healthily wasn’t good for me…and I’ve found myself in a similar position to you quite a few times. I always find that a batch off cookies and a few salty chips sets me back on the right path :) I need to make these cute little cookies for my sweetheart this Valentine’s Day. I know he will love them!
Isn’t it crazy how our body needs a serious dose of calories every now and then? Thanks, Amy :)
Oh girl, don’t skip meals! You know it isn’t good for you ;) Not but seriously, glad you are back to feeling better and brought these cookies to the party because I am freaking out over these. I LOVE lofthouse cookies but I don’t trust myself with a whole box. The cure is this small batch :)
I am 100 percent certain that cookies have curative properties. Especially pretty ones like this. :-)
Lofthouse cookies from the store are sooooo good but nothing beats homemade. Yours are so pretty and I love that they’re a small batch!
OH! I hope you’re feeling better!! Have a few fried donuts, m’kay? They help! ;-)
I LOVE them lofthouse cookies, though… so freakin’ good! These look incredibly soft and delicious and festive!
This recipe sounds so good. My husband also loves those cookies from the store and could eat a dozen. I love the fact that this recipe makes a reasonable 6 cookies prefect for a couple. Also since my husband’s not supposed to have sugar I think I’ll try out this recipe and use Splenda. We’ll see how that works out.
These cookies are my JAM! YUM!
I’m so glad that my body isn’t the only one that needs a good kick of fast food every once in awhile! In fact, I celebrated selling our house in two days yesterday with Wendy’s. It seemed like the right Ohio thing to do. lol
These cookies? Beyond being the most adorable thing ever, they look absolutely divine. I think I’d down all six!
Isn’t it wild? I love it! Once a month or so, the Arby’s better get ready for me, hah! Is Wendy’s a Ohio chain? I had no idea!
I’m happy/sad to report that I live approximately 40 miles south of the Lofthouse Cookie OUTLET. Perfectly fresh, delicious (slightly misshapen) cookies in every color imaginable, at half price. It’s rough. Your small batch is a much better idea. And I’ve never tried sour cream in sugar cookies before, so I’m quite intrigued! Thanks!
Can I move in? I mean, come for a quick visit….slash move in and sleep on your couch?
Started these at 8:30pm and in less than an hour they were baked, cooled, frosted and eaten! Made them for three teen-aged boys…one of whom couldn’t wait through the cooling stage and devoured his share warm.:) Once again, my thighs thank you for keeping me away from the remains of a standard three dozen batch of cookies! (I used a medium-sized scoop which produced nine fabulous cookies.)
Have I told you how much I looooove these!?!? Just made another quick batch…between Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day I’ve been able to use up some of my remaining red/green Christmas Cookie sprinkles and coloring. Quick. Easy. Delicious.
I’m so glad, Sandra! Thanks for letting me know <3
I finally had to give in and make these cookies.Oh, my goodness…they are so delicious.I ended up with eight and still had plenty of icing. I know will be making these again and again…maybe with some alternative icings to change it up a bit. Thanks, Christina!!
Hi. I recently found your blog a decided I had to try these! My twin sister just moved out so there are only 3 of us and I see no need to have an excessive amount of sweets in the house when I can make small batches (something that I never even thought of!). I made these today and the cookies themselves were very good but for some reason the frosting tasted like butter. I really don’t know why because I used the correct amount of everything. I used butter, but in general can you use margarine instead of butter in your recipes? Thanks! Oh, and btw you are beautiful (in a non creepy way of course) and so is your daughter.
Hi Holly! Thanks so much for writing me, and nice to meet you :) Hehe, I think I love butter way more than you! You could try this cream cheese frosting?: https://www.dessertfortwo.com/red-velvet-cupcakes-2/
Made these yesterday and they are sooo yummy. Have a recipe that you chill,roll and cut and these are so fast and just as moist and soft. I used a 1 inch scoop and got 16 smaller cookies that baked 10 minutes in my toaster oven. Thank you for the small batch recipes.
Thank you for this! Our oven recently broke and we’re stuck using a toaster oven to bake anything, so I’m excited to try this tonight!
I’m anxious to try these Lofthouse-style sugar cookies, but these webpage displays a recipe for a strawberry galette not the sugar cookie. Help!
Would love to try the lofthouse cookies, but the page is showing a pumpkin chai cupcakes.
Thank you! Currently switching recipe cards, and experiencing a few hiccups. Thanks! fixing it now :)