15, 2024
Your cookies will look (and taste!)
like they’re made from scratch with these sugar cookie mix hacks.
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Itll give your cookies the best, closest-to-homemade flavor.
Use unsalted butter to be sure your cookies dont taste too salty.
Heres the difference betweenunsalted and salted butter.
Vanilla is the obvious choice.
For a more intriguing flavor, add both vanilla and almond extracts.
Rum, maple and anise are other delicious varieties to consider.
(Try these flavor hacks that work wonders withstore-bought cookie dough.)
Stir in citrus zest
Your sugar cookies will sing with freshcitrus zestadded to the mix!
Sugar cookies will bake up with a wonderfully soft, cake-like texture.
(Hereswhy it works!)
Add these after blending your butter and egg into the sugar cookie mix.
This is our favorite hack for holidayPillsbury cookie dough.
you might do more withpremade cookie doughthan youd believe!
For snickerdoodle-like cookies, try rolling them in a cinnamon-sugar blend.
After rolling, bake the cookies as directed.
Add food coloring or flavored extracts to make them even snazzier.
Heres our recipe for easyroyal icing.
Our editors think THIS is the beststore-bought cookie doughout there!
Dip your cookies in chocolate
Gentlymelt chocolateor white chocolate chips in a microwave or a double boiler.
Dip your baked, cooled sugar cookies in the melted chocolate, then let them cool.
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