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By Kelly Dixon
Published: Oct 18, 2023
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Homemade Lofthouse Christmas Cookies are even better than the delicious ones you buy at the grocery store bakery. They are fun to make and decorate for the holidays! Consider making them for friends and family, or better yet, Santa!
Lofthouse Christmas Cookies
Lofthouse cookies are grocery store cookies we all know and love. They’re similar to soft sugar cookies but softer, fluffier, and thicker in texture. Best of all, everyone knows they taste delicious! Keep this copycat recipe on hand for making cookies for occasions all year round!
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Ingredients:
butter
cream cheese
sour cream
egg
sugar
vanilla extract
food coloring
almond extract
all purpose flour
baking powder
baking soda
salt
Christmas sprinkles
Ingredients:
In a large bowl or mixer bowl add 1 stick of salted butter and sugar, and cream for 2-3 minutesusing an electric mixer. Continue by mixing in the egg and sour cream.
In a medium bowl add flour, baking powder, and salt.Slowly add this dry mixture to the creamy butter mixture in small increments.
Divide the dough in half and put each half on plastic wrap. Press the dough down until it’s about an inch thickness. Wrap up in plastic wrap and place the flattened cookie dough in the refrigerator to chill for at least 2 hours.
Using a round cup or a round cookie cutter, cut the cookies out and place them on a baking sheet. Bake them for about 7-8 minutes. Once cooled, frost the copycat Lofthouse cookies with buttercream frosting. The flavor of these cookies is straight-up addicting!
Buttercream Frosting
½cupof butter, at room temperature
2cupsof powdered sugar
1 ½teaspoonsof vanilla extract
2tablespoonsmilk
food coloring
Using an electric mixer, cream the butter until it’s fluffy. Mix in the powdered sugar followed by the vanilla, milk, and then food coloring
In a large bowl or mixer bowl add 1 stick of butter and sugar, and cream together with a mixer for 2-3 minutes
Add the egg and mix
Add the sour cream and mix
In a separate mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
Add the "dry ingredients" from the step above to the butter mixture in small increments
Divide dough in half and wrap each half in plastic wrap
Using your hands, press the dough down until it is about 2 inches thick
Place the cookie dough in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours
After the dough is chilled, preheat your oven to 350℉
Prepare cookie sheets with parchment paper
Using a rolling pin, place the dough on parchment paper and roll it out until the dough is about ½ inch thick
Cut the dough with cookie cutters. If you don't have a circle cookie cutter, use the lip of a round cup
Place the cookie sheet with the cookies in the refrigerator for an additional 5 minutes
Bake the cookies for 7-8 minutes until the bottoms are are little golden brown
For the Buttercream Frosting
Using an electric mixer, cream the butter until it’s fluffy
Mix in the powdered sugar followed by the vanilla, milk, and then food coloring
Frost the Cookies
Once the cookies are cooled, frost the cookies with the buttercream frosting and add festive sprinkles!
Notes
Store cookies in an airtight container on the counter.
Additional Info
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What Makes Lofthouse Cookies So Soft? Unlike a standard sugar cookie, Lofthouse cookies are made with both baking soda and baking powder for a softer, less crumbly texture. The dough also includes sour cream to keep the cookies moist. The texture is soft and airy, like a cross between a cookie and a cupcake.
Founded in 1994, Lofthouse Foods primarily produces cookies that are sold to the in-store bakeries of major U.S. grocers and mass merchandisers. Ralcorp acquired Lofthouse in January 2002. ConAgra acquired Lofthouse as part of its acquisition of Ralcorp in 2013.
It began in 1994. David Stone started it with just $2,000 and less than 500 square feet of space to work in. David named the company after his mother's maiden name of Lofthouse. With very few resources, everything had to be done by hand, including scooping the dough on to cookie sheets for baking.
We started out with $2,000 of our savings and just lived very frugally the first year," said Dave Stone, chief executive officer and chairman of Lofthouse Foods Inc., a Clearfield-based company.
“To keep cookies soft, store them in an airtight container and not in a cookie jar,” Amanda recommends. “While cookie jars are cute, they usually don't have airtight lids.
“Cornstarch is a game changer for cookie baking,” confirms Brian Hart Hoffman, editor in chief of Bake from Scratch. “You can count on [it for] a softer and more tender crumb.”
Frosted Lofthouse sugar cookies can last up to a week in the fridge when stored properly. Be sure to keep them in an airtight container to preserve their soft texture and to prevent the frosting from drying out.
Lofthouse cookies are the style of thicker, frosted cookies you find in a grocery store or stand-alone bakery. The official “Lofthouse sugar cookies” originated in1994 when Lofthouse Foods started producing cookies that were sold to in-store bakeries of US supermarkets as well as merchandisers.
Once solid, stack the cookies 3 or 4 high between parchment paper, wrap in foil, and transfer to a freezer bag. Freeze for up to a month and thaw at room temperature.
She found a delicious recipe for gluten-free “Jesus cookies.” My daughters call those really puffy, soft sugar cookies with lots of icing and sprinkles you find in the grocery store “Jesus cookies” because they seemed to get them during Sunday School A LOT.
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And here's the aha moment, if you check out the label of Lofthouse cookie ingredients, you will in fact see that nonfat milk powder is in the original recipe. So not so secret, after all!
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