Hot tip: cut your cookies, freeze them at least 1 night (fridge would do fine, doesn't have be the freezer). The flavor will taste better because the ingredients had time to rest AND they won't lose their lines when baked. They will keep their sharp lines. I drop cookies in the tray straight from the fridge. They always cooked evenly. Might need 2/3 minutes more but at least they look fresh.

@themermaidstale5008

8 ай бұрын

Mother always refrigerated her sugar cookie dough before rolling it out for the cookie cutters. The dough was already ready, so I never learned to make her sugar cookie dough. The first time I tried on my own was a sticky mess and I never tried again. But I have wonderful memories of making sugar cookies with Mom during school Christmas break.

@racherutheneko7270

8 ай бұрын

thanks for the tip.

@MaritaCovarrubias01

8 ай бұрын

Thanks but I’ll never have the fridge or freezer space for such shenanigans lol.

@themermaidstale5008

8 ай бұрын

@@MaritaCovarrubias01 perhaps you might find the room in the fridge to put the cookie dough rolled in wax paper (my mother did that) or plastic wrap overnight or for several hours. She also kept half of the dough chilled in the fridge while we worked with the other half. Mom’s cookies were delicious and I have great memories of helping my mother make those sugar cookies at Christmas time.

@sandiestafford4085

7 ай бұрын

Bull. Freeze for 5 minutes.

I made these last night, All I can say is WOW. They are soooo good. Thanks John for this recipe. I cut them into 3.5" rounds and 1/4" thick.

I LOVE that you use a scale to measure ingredients. I started doing that after the first time I saw one of your videos over two years ago. It really makes a difference and I wish all recipes everywhere included the weight measurements.

John I made this recipe earlier with my 8 year old niece and they were delicious! We didn’t even frost them and she still said they were the best cookies she ever had. I saved half the dough for cookies on demand when it starts getting colder here. Thanks John!

Thank you! For decades my family has made sugar cookies with the premade tube dough. I copied all your instructions down and measured the flour as you said. These were the best sugar cookies I have seen since my grandma was around. 😂I was so excited when I saw how the dough came out. I shared the recipe and the video with my mom, so now we can make homemade sugar cookies again 🎉 I’m almost in tears because the sentimental value is so deep- truly grateful!

@dawnemerson3604

3 ай бұрын

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Premade this dough yesterday and rolled out/cut/baked cookies today! What an awesome recipe! Thank you for the tips! The timing tip definitely came in handy! 😁

I’ve been making butter cookies since 1960. My mother gave me a pillsbury holiday pamphlet from 1950. Priceless memories! I still have the book. 😂❤ Merry Christmas!

These cookies came out perfect! This has never happened to me in my 22 years of making Christmas sugar cookies! Great recipe! ❤❤❤

Sugar cookies hold such great memories for me. Mom would wait until school was on Christmas break to make sugar cookies and other baked goods. I was her happy helper. Our cookies weren’t fancy frosted - we used regular sugar, colored sugars, cinnamon red hots, those minuscule multi-colored sprinkles and the silver balls that would probably break my teeth now. I also chopped the various candied fruits for her fruit cake, perhaps that where my love of jewels started. It was great spending time with my mother. Rest in Heavenly Peace, Mother.

I have never been able to cook or bake. But I’ve been on maternity leave this year and came across your blog and KZread channel and I’ve tried your sugar cookies as well as a bunch of cake and dinner recipes and they’ve all turned out amazing!! 😭 My husband has been so impressed haha. I went from burning pasta on the regular to actually making delicious Alfredo from scratch. I made sugar cookies for my daughters first birthday and everyone loved them, people were actually fighting over them! 😂 You are so wonderful to watch and make things so easy to understand and give the best tips!! Thank you sooo much!!!! ❤

@realestateunplugged6129

7 ай бұрын

Nothing better than a woman's home made cookies from a cookie loving man's perspective. I'm happy for your husband. My ex wouldn't cook or bake anything.

I’ve tested many cookie recipes and this is probably the best tasting and the cookies also look good. No spread, just a little brown on edges, perfect. Let’s see if these last until they are decorated.

Oh this is now my favorite sugar cookie recipe! So easy and delicious! 😍

Made these tonight with my girls and they had so much fun. They came out delicious too! They’re so excited to have some left over dough for later this week.

Yesterday I made sugar cookies using another chef’s recipe and my cookies came out dry and crumbly. Today I used your recipe using my kitchen scale and dough is absolutely PERFECT! Thank you.

John, I just made my husband sugar cookies the other day they were just so, so now Im going to try your recipe this weekend. Great timing. Thank you.

You are an awesome teacher. I learned how to make your swiss meringue butter cream. I was afraid that I would be wasting my ingredients and it would not turn out, but your YT sessions take the fear out of making many things. I also live in a place without good Indian restaurants. I have made your naan and the chicken tikka masala. HEAVEN. Thank you for being you.

I never comment on any receipe that I tried but I can't resist to write a comment after trying these cookies. These are just awesome. Perfectly done.

Absolutely love your recipes, so much so I plan to gift your book to people I know who love or are trying to learn cooking/baking 🥰

Omgosh I think I can smell these cookies!!! 😮 I’m definitely using this recipe for my Christmas cookies! 🎄Thanks ❤

I've baked for 25 years and have always hated homemade sugar cookies. Hated. Until I made these! These were so amazing, I substituted the vanilla with honey and made a cream cheese icing, and they were mouthwatering! Thank you so much

John Kanell, you are the 💣. I can never thank you enough for teaching me how to make the BEST homemade cookies! You are the best of the best and I enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for being you, thanks for making us laugh and that’s for teaching us ❤️ I am so grateful to have come across your channel 🙏🏼

Many thanks John for the best holiday cookies much appreciated God bless your family always

I always love your videos, feel like you are Bob Ross for baking! Think this is the first time I've ever commented on anyones video but just wanted you to know how great you are.Would love to see some more tart recipes!

@PreppyKitchen

8 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you! That's very kind and I truly appreciate it.

@joennepease3655

8 ай бұрын

​@@PreppyKitchenI don't know what is going on but I was unable to comment directly. They are one of my favorite cookies. Thanks for sharing 🌺

@francesmorgan6397

8 ай бұрын

These r great I love these cookies u r awesome

@radxcityxresin

8 ай бұрын

Such a cute comment! I’m glad you posted it! ❤

@laurastrele

8 ай бұрын

Agree with you 💯

Whenever I need a specific recipe or something new, I check your channel out. These were great! Thank you!

Love watching your cooking videos, all of your recipes are amazing! Thanks for sharing 😊❤

You are truly amazing. Your videos have opened doors for me in regards to how fun baking can be! Any time I want to make a new thing, my first check is to see if you have a recipe for it! ❤

You are always my go-to baker every time and I have been DELIGHTED with this recipe as it warmed up my home with the smell of fresh baked cookies this winter, my family loved them and will definitely going to be making more in the future! Happy Holidays! ☺

That looks like a wonderful sugar cookie recipe for the holidays. Thank you for sharing. Definitely making this!❤

I’ve made this exact cookie recipe many many times John, perfect every time and you are free to decorate in any way you like, we used to enjoy decorating with my daughter, especially with different colours of sanding sugars or Royal icing, always so much fun to do together, we never forgot the fun we had. Thank you for sharing with us, it brought back so many fun and loving memories for us….many thanks John💕 Enjoy the rest of your week and thanks again for sharing this video, certainly looking forward to the next one!!! 🍪 Tina 🍪

Thank you! I've never understood my sugar cookie issues (so your info on dough cracking, flour when rolling out the dough, baking time, decorating, weighing flour, etc. is a great help ). The grocery store premade dough is OK, but nothing like home made, non preservative and who knows what else, cookies.

I made your sugar cookies a lot of times(esp special occasions) and decided to sell it in our school. Everyone loved it and wanted me to make more! Thank you so much!

Made them for Xmas🎅🏼 and everybody❤ loved them. Thank🍪 you so much. Will do them for every occasion now

I'm getting ready to do some cut-out cookies, thanks for all the great tips!!!

Fo far, all his recipes have been spot-on for me. Thanks!

the sugar cookies with the color sugar sprinkles are my favorite. I love Freshness Guaranteed cookies.😋💖 the only time I got to eat them was on holidays at school or someone brought some to a party. I use to like the cookies with frosting, but cause my mom bought them so many times I got tired of them and my sister would eat most of them herself.

I just love these videos. He's the perfect host. No other chef compares to his presentation. Thank you for great instructions and entertainment ❤

Hi John, enjoy your channel not only because your baking instructions are so easy to follow, but also because you have such a nice personality. Congrats these cookies are delicious and with your icing have a heavenly taste !! Looking forward to your next video and buying your book soon. Best regards from Germany where I now live 👋

Oh so that’s how you do the sugar decorating!! With granulated sugar with color 😮 i always wondered about that cause I always seen pictures in my moms baking books but never showed me how to decorate them like this. Thank you!

Just baked a batch to gift to our neighbours! Love the sugar idea 😊

This recipe is wonderful! And the easy icing too. Thank you so much

Stop my waistline! LoL ❤ I'm baking these cookies right away!

You have so many little tips and tricks. Wonderful video. Thank you!

aaaa FINALLY ❤❤ i’ve seen all Your christmas baking videos and i was waiting for another oneee❤️

Okay so I made the cookie dough for these sugar cookies two days ago. I had to do trial run before thanksgiving. so last night I baked up a few of the cookies. and let me just say this and brag on you some. John these cookies are yes, very easy sugar cookies and they are oh so delicious. Not too sweet and have that good twang-ness to them. Very, very delicious. So of course, this morning during coffee time, I had to do the coffee test. and yup I tell you this they held together so very well after dunking for at least four seconds. and we all know cookies usually fall apart, nuh uh, not these LOL! So, I want to say thank you for sharing this and this is Hands Down my go to Sugar Cookie Recipe! :)

Your my favorite person to watch for delicious treats, especially I’m in pastry school

Gracias por dar esta Reseta deliciosa de galletas todas tú resetas son lo máximo 😃😃😃👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️bendiciones y abrazos 😃❤️🥰

I was thinking of doing some sugar cookies. And here you are with it.

Appreciate all the nuanced explanations. They whys and hows are helpful. Thank you and happy holidays to you and your family!

Thanks for posting! I'm planning on baking sugar cookies with my daughter and my sister for Thanksgiving morning

I made it and it was delicious. It was my first time making cookies like that so i thought it will be dry but it came out so good. Thanks for sharing with us❤

I made this recipe and the cookies were perfect!!!!! ♥️

Woah, I'm shocked, this recipe is AMAZING like so delicious there aren't even enough words in the dictionary to desribe it, perfect recipe and amazingly easy to do def reccomend 10/10

I love adding almond flavoring in mine. Love your apron..so festive for the holidays. I'm hosting a cookie exchange at our church. I'll be making these (decorated) for each of the other ladies.

We always just added a pinch of colored sugar by rubbing thumb and forefinger together. Brushing with a little melted butter and pressing into the sprinkles sounds very yummy.

my son has been asking for these cookies.....ill try this recipe and hopefully I will succeed thank you !

I just made cookies from your recipe 4 years ago! I didn’t realize it’s been updated

I never have luck with making cutout cookies, but I am going to try these! They do seem pretty simple.

I have lived a long time & never have seen a man make sugar cookies. This is refreshing to watch. Just saying.😄

Thank you. I've been wanting to try to make sugar cookies. Giving this ago for christmas

I made these today thank you they came out delicious

I just saw a tip on how to soften butter faster! Read that if you get get two glasses and put boiling hot water in them, then dump the water out. After put the cups over the butters and in a few minutes it should be room temp! Wanted to share, haven’t tried tho. Thanks for the great channel ✨

So glad I came across your videos, so helpful and informative!! Thank you!

Cookies on demand...I wish! Love these videos!!!

I can finally make sugar cookiessss, I don't trust no one with recipes but you 💖💖 thankss

Whipped butter is always so pretty !

I made this yesterday and my kids loved me and asked me for more 😂❤

Hi John, These look delicious! I’ve been making sugar cookies on my own since I was 12 (48 years)! It’s my absolute favorite cookie! Recently I used your buttercream frosting recipe for the Halloween sugar cookies I made for my grandsons Halloween Cookie Decorating Party! The frosting did not disappoint!! Absolutely fabulous!! I am hoping we get to see you with your family making/decorating cookies this holiday season. I so enjoyed last years video watching Brian and Lachlan snagging cookies! 😂 It was the best! ❤🎄Cheers!

@cattastroficka196

8 ай бұрын

Yes! Do another family cookie video please! It was so much fun!

Just wondering this recipe doesn't call for corn starch but your original no spread sugar cookies had corn starch no baking powder. So wondering if there was a reason for the change.

I would *LOVE* to see your perfection on Butter Tarts. A Canadian classic. Please!! I use *so many* of your recipes as my go-to for my yearly baking spree.. I always know I can trust it to be good!

Hi I just wanted to say that you are so wonderful to watch and Ilove your vibe! You just motivated me to try this recipe. I am no baker I am the cooker of our household, my husband is the baker, but he loves cookies and I really want to bake him some before his big final he has coming up at school! Thank you for making this video and I already subscribed for more:)

John they are on my list..thank you young man be well.Your cookbook is also on my list

These look so much easier to make. Thanks for tip about baking them with sprinkles

@literallymesit

7 ай бұрын

Did the sugar on top melt

Thank you so much for all your recipes. They are spot on. Many recipe's I collected through the years are missing something but yours are delicious and easy to make. I give you 10 stars not only 5. Hahaha.👍🙏

You are a wonderful cook!! You are my go-to... I just love you and I love your recipes and thank you so much for sharing.. Happy Holidays to you and your family🍗🎄 oh and I'm buying your cookbook for my sister-in-law for Christmas.. We are always in cooking competition but it's fun!

I have found the perfect sugar cookie recipe after years of trying different ones. The perfect recipe is just like a chocolate chip recipe...omit thr chocolate chips of course...Use all sugar and omit the brown sugar. Roll the dough into balls and then roll in sugar. Everyone loves all of my Christmas Cookies. 🙂

Love your videos! Use your recipes all the time

Thank you for your help making these ♥️

These are wonderful! Thanks for sharing this!

These are so, so pretty! I love watching your videos - thanks for sharing!

Some days I just come and watch John explain and walk through the process it’s just cathartic to listen to him gently narrate the nifty details one of the best food bloggers /authors in my humble opinion. Wonderfully insightful and such a brilliant teacher (his teaching background shines through this). Those look scrumptious et so simple to make. Thanks for sharing @PreppyKitchen ☺️🙏🏻and Happy Holidays in advance. 🎄

@emefalove8462

5 ай бұрын

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I love the colored sugar, great idea! 🎄

Thank you so much for this delicious recipe. My family approved! I’m anxious to make them again and was wondering how long can I refrigerate the dough and or freeze before rolling and finishing making the wonderful cookies? Thank you again

These cookies are so good. When I watch one of your videos my daughter runs in yelling "John"! You have not just made me interested and better at baking but have a huge 8 year old fan who said she would love to cook with you someday.

Y’know, one of the thing that helps in these videos is seeing what’s “normal” in a given situation. Yeah, I use that word sparingly but I’m talking about things like what a mixer does to the dough. I didn’t have the budget for a Kitchenaid when I got my stand mixer. I have a smaller, well reviewed, low end stand mixer and it has a weird quirk at low speeds, where the speed goes up and down constantly. I still have no idea if it’s supposed to do that but it gets the job done. However, it tends to make a person doubt everything the mixer does so seeing that even a nicer mixer lets ingredients clump at the bottom of the bowl tells me that mine isn’t too bad. I’ve made meringues with it so I knew it functioned but I still appreciate the reassurance. Even when it works it nags at you that maybe something’s wrong and that you might need to replace it, but I just don’t use it often enough right now to sink money into a better one.

Easy and simple recipe! I will definitely try this😋😊

Thank you so much for sharing this recipe ❤

It's cookie season! 😋

I've made your sugar cookies a countless times, thank you for (re)sharing this recipe 😊 I've learned something new and I will definitely do that next time I bake these cookies again. Thank you John, I enjoy watching your video's. Wishing you and your wonderful family good holidays ❤️

Loved all your videos, tried some of your recipes and they have turned out really great.

Hello John, I absolutely adore your channel. Your channel inspired me to start baking. 2 months ago I didn't know a thing about baking and now I have started making delicate French pastries. This channel has helped me start my baking career and I hope that you keep doing what you do. If possible could you do muffin tops of gingerbread cookies next for Christmas!

I’ve made my dough, it’s in the fridge ready to bake on Christmas Eve! Thank you! Happy Christmas to you and your family 🎄🤗

Wonderful baking tips thank you so much

I’m waiting for this season for your Christmas recipe videos. John, I love your videos. Greetings from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 ♥️♥️♥️🤤🤤🤤😋😋🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍♥️♥️♥️

I love your videos so much! Your recipes a very detailed and helpful😊

I have to say I’m a little sad you changed your recipe. Your old recipe (using cornstarch) is my go to. I’m glad I have it written down. It’s so much easier for kids to roll out and work with.

@fi7lter371

7 ай бұрын

Can you post the recipe here in the comments please? Thank you 🙏

@kelseywolak2928

7 ай бұрын

This!! I was shocked when I went to his site and he had changed the recipe…the cornstarch recipe is foolproof for avoiding spreading and having to re-cool the dough too often. This video of his uses the old recipe kzread.info/dash/bejne/mqp6sLh6f9m1iM4.htmlsi=BZ1L3kpnOQYbMPdL

@ddadhollin

7 ай бұрын

I was also surprised with the recipe change. But I do think they taste better without the cornstarch. Just refrigerate a bit longer.

@dominiquew.8181

7 ай бұрын

@@kelseywolak2928thank you for the link and the tip.

Lại ra lò với những chiếc bánh quy Noel thật ngon và thơm phức còn hấp dẫn nữa trong ngày lễ Noel vui vẻ

Making these today❤ Loooooove your channel. So charming🍪

Amazing instructions, thank you

Loooovvvvveeee them 🎉🎉🎉Yesterday i make them with your royal icing receipe!!!! Oh my God it was to goooddd! Thank you son much.!!! Merry Christmas !!! God bless you😊

These are amazing!!