Copycat Lofthouse Sugar Cookies
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Last year, around this time, I posted a recipe for Perfect Frosted Sugar Cookies. That recipe is the recipe that I've been making for cut-out sugar cookies for years. It is, without a doubt, the most perfect sugar cookie recipe to use with all those fancy Christmas cookie cutters you have taking up space in a drawer in your kitchen. They cookies don't spread. They don't discolor. They stay soft and flavorful. It's easy to make and work with. It uses simple ingredients. I believe itreally is theperfect recipe for cutout cookies.It seems like lots of other folks agree with me, because that recipe continues to spike in popularity around holidays (and now I have people coming back for a second year in a row telling me that it is their must make sugar cookie recipe). So,you're probably thinking, if this is all true of the first Perfect Frosted Sugar Cookies, why in the world is this silly girlposting a second, different frosted sugar cookie recipe? Because, friends, Lofthouse Sugar Cookies are a horse of a different color. 
These cookies are a copycat recipe of the much loved store-bought Lofthouse brand sugar cookies. If you've never had one, Lofthousesugar cookies aren't like your typical sugar cookie—they are somewhere in a glorious gray area between a cookie and a cupcake. They are fluffy, airy, cake-like, and have a nice, thick layer of brightly-colored buttercream frosting that is almost always covered in adorable sprinkles. It's basically like if you took the top of a cupcake and smushed it into a cookie, you'd get Lofthouse cookies. The reason I feel okay posting a second sugar cookie recipe after declaring my first one was "perfect" is because really, it's barely fair that both of them are in the same category of cookie. Honestly, I think Lofthouse cookies should be a category all of their own. A delicious, sugary sweet, awesome category. Get the recipe »..."