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Cookies · January 31, 2025

Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookie Recipe

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Making homemade cookies is a typical occurrence in my house. This time, I received a sugar cookie request from a friend at my run club. I decided to try a new-to-me recipe for a chewy and soft sugar cookie.

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It was a gamble, but wow. This bakery-style sugar cookie is from “The New Family Cookbook” by America’s Test Kitchen. These sugar cookies possess that crave-worthy slightly crisp edge and chewy center. They looked beautiful (especially after I sprinkled on chunky coarse sugar).

I passed around a large container of these cookies to a dozen running friends after dinner. At first, I’d hear, “Oh, I’ll have just one.” Then what did I hear? “Hey, can I get another sugar cookie, please?” or “Are there any sugar cookies left?” As for the cookie requester, this was his absolute favorite type of sugar cookie. So there you go.

Table of Contents

  • What’s In These Soft Chewy Sugar Cookies?
  • How Do You Make Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies?
  • Recipe for Chewy and Soft Sugar Cookies by America’s Test Kitchen
  • What Is America’s Test Kitchen?
  • Inside “The New Family Cookbook” by America’s Test Kitchen
  • The America’s Test Kitchen Cookbooks List
    • Perfect Baking Cookbooks Series
    • The Complete ATK Cookbook Series
    • America’s Test Kitchen 100 Series
    • Cooking for Two Annual Series
    • Best of America’s Test Kitchen
  • Related Resources
Jessica Nunemaker and soft, chewy sugar cookies — the perfect addition to any potluck, pitch-in, or get-together.
Who doesn’t love a sugar cookie? These soft and chewy sugar cookies are the perfect addition to any pitch-in, potluck, or get-together.

What’s In These Soft Chewy Sugar Cookies?

This recipe includes most of the usual suspects plus one unexpected addition (you’ll see it in a moment). The ingredients in this sugar cookie recipe include:

  • All-purpose flour
  • Baking powder
  • Baking soda
  • Salt
  • Granulated Sugar
  • Unsalted Butter (I use Salted Butter)
  • Vegetable Oil
  • Egg
  • Whole Milk
  • Vanilla Extract
  • Cream Cheese — yes, that’s the intriguing addition.

Did you notice there isn’t brown sugar (no light brown sugar or dark brown sugar) in this one, or an egg yolk or anything like that? The dry ingredients are pretty run-of-the-mill.

Bonus: no softened butter is used in this cookie recipe (so you won’t cream butter and sugar as you’d expect). You’ll use melted butter that’s warm, not hot (hot butter would cook the egg whites, potentially leaving streaks in your baked goods).

Nope, there isn’t any almond extract or powdered sugar in this recipe either (you don’t even fuss with making buttercream frosting or cream cheese frosting and dealing with the powdered sugar mess either). The tops are so pretty, you won’t miss them.

But wait — what’s this?

Why put cream cheese in a sugar cookie? That’s weird, right? Can’t you taste the cream cheese? Nope. It’s only 2 ounces of cream cheese, but it plays an important role.

Cream cheese in this sugar cookie recipe improves the flavor (adding richness), and boosts the acidity, allowing for the addition of baking soda, making the perfect and delightful crackly-looking surface, my America’s Test Kitchen cookbook shared.

Look at the crispy crackly top on these chewy and soft homemade sugar cookies
Rolling each dough ball in white sugar before you bake them creates a pretty, sparkly sugar cookie.

How Do You Make Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookies?

What do you have to do to make these cookies? Simple. Place butter in a microwave-safe bowl or in a pot on the stove, and melt the butter. Whisk in the cream cheese, so it mostly disappears, leaving behind a few small lumps here and there (which is fine).

Note: You don’t need a stand mixer for this wonderful sugar cookie recipe. Use your electric mixer if you’d like, but it’s just as fast to prepare without it.

Use a parchment-paper-lined baking sheet. It will keep the cookies from sticking and spreading. Did you know that greasing your cookie sheet can cause cookies to spread? It makes sense when you think about it, all that slickness. You can use the same parchment paper sheets for the whole shebang.

These cookies are beautiful “as is,” though you could throw on sparkling sugar (raw coarse sugar) or colored sugar after flattening the dough balls before baking if rolling them in the white sugar wasn’t enough.

Soft and chewy homemade sugar cookies sit on a vintage platter
Crackly-topped, chewy sugar cookies sit on my grandma’s vintage platter.

Recipe for Chewy and Soft Sugar Cookies by America’s Test Kitchen

I guess I have a “thing” for a good sugar cookie. Between the recipes for Funfetti Sugar Cookies and the recipe for Amish Sugar Cookies, and now this recipe from America’s Test Kitchen (ATK) for Chewy and Soft Sugar Cookies, we’ve covered a lot of the bases. How fun is that?

This cookie offers a few variations in the America’s Test Kitchen cookbook:

  • Chewy Hazelnut Browned Butter Sugar Cookies
  • Chewy Chai-Spice Sugar Cookies
  • Chewy Coconut-Lime Sugar Cookies

Get the cookbook. You won’t regret it. Oh, and when you cook or bake out of it, I’d love to know what you tried and loved, so I can add it to my list, too.

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Soft and Chewy Sugar Cookie Recipe


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  • Total Time: 50 minutes
  • Yield: 24 Cookies (if using a 2 Tablespoon disher) 1x
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"The New Family Cookbook" by America's Test Kitchen created a memorable sugar cookie. This is one you cookie recipe you can really sink your teeth into.

This is a fast to fix sugar cookie recipe. You won't have to chill the dough before baking. Expect to take less than an hour to make up a batch of 24 cookies (if you use a 2 Tablespoon cookie dough scoop, mine is a 1 1/2 Tablespoon scoop).

Rolling each dough ball in the sugar is the most time-consuming part of it. Throw some music on or a podcast, and enjoy the process.

You can freeze the raw cookies for up to one month. Bake the frozen cookies in a 350* oven for 17 to 22 minutes or until the edges are set and the cookies are lightly browned.

I find it helpful to bake up a test cookie when I'm trying a new recipe. Then you can adjust the time as necessary.


Ingredients

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Sugar Cookies

  • 2 1/4 Cups All-Purpose Flour (11 1/4 Ounces)
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 1/2 Cups Sugar (10 1/2 Ounces)
  • 2 Ounces Cream Cheese (Cut into 8 Chunks)
  • 6 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter (Melted and Warm, But Not Hot (I used Salted Butter))
  • 1/3 Cup Vegetable Oil
  • 1 Large Egg
  • 1 Tablespoon Whole Milk
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract

Before Baking the Sugar Cookies, You'll Roll the Dough Balls In:

  • 1/3 Cup Granulated Sugar

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 350*. Ovens take longer to heat than you'd think.
  2. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
  3. Whisk together the dry ingredients: all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
  4. Put the 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar and the cream cheese in a large bowl and whisk in the warm melted butter. You will have a few lumps of cream cheese, but for the most part, it dissolves into the mixture.
  5. Whisk in the large egg, the milk, and the vanilla extract until the mixture is combined and smooth.
  6. Fold in the dry ingredient mixture (the flour mixture) using a rubber spatula until the cookie dough combines to form a soft, combined dough.
  7. Put the 1/3 cup granulated sugar in a shallow bowl for rolling the cookie dough balls (I use something similar to a pasta bowl because it has raised edges and offers a large flat space).
  8. Roll the dough balls one at a time (I know, I tried more than one, but you have to go with one dough ball at a time), scoop out cookie dough into a ball and roll it into the white sugar.
  9. Set the cookie dough balls 2" apart on the baking sheets. If you put the cookies too close, you will end up with connecting mutant cookies. You don't want that.
  10. Grease the bottom of a dry measuring cup with Pam for Baking with Flour or Baker's Joy and gently flatten each dough ball so they are 3" in diameter. If you use a different size cookie dough disher, then adjust accordingly (a smaller scoop, such as mine, meant I flattened my 1 1/2" cookie dough balls into a 2.5" diameter.
  11. Sprinkle 2 teaspoons of sugar from the 1/3 cup over the flattened cookies. I also used coarse raw sugar on a few cookies to add a little glittery shine.
  12. Bake one cookie sheet at a time for 11 to 13 minutes, turning the cookie sheet around halfway through the baking cycle. Cookies will begin to brown and the edges will be set when they are done.
    Always set your timer for slightly less than the lowest time in the range "just in case."
  13. Cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then move the baked cookies to a wire rack to finish cooling.
    Store in a covered reusable container when they are completely cooled.
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 11 minutes
  • Category: Snack
  • Cuisine: American

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What Is America’s Test Kitchen?

A Day In The Life at America’s Test Kitchen #Shorts, America’s Test Kitchen on YouTube, May 22, 2023, Accessed January 29, 2025.

This is not a fly-by-night brand. ATK began in 1993 as a magazine, with founder Christopher Kimball eventually hosting the PBS TV show beginning in 2001. You may remember him as the round glasses-wearing, bow-tie-clad man.

Christopher began a new venture in 2016 (Milk Street) after contract disputes. Bridget Lancaster and Julia Collin Davison co-host the PBS segments with a slew of other folks making an appearance, too. You can read about the hosts of America’s Test Kitchen here.

With 2 million weekly viewers and over 600 episodes to date, America’s Test Kitchen has become a staple and has revolutionized the way Americans cook.

. . .

In addition to being the most reliable teachers — likely more so than your favorite TikToker — The America’s Test Kitchen test cooks spend about six weeks testing each recipe before releasing it to the world.

Kristin L. Wolfe, America’s Test Kitchen Turns 25 and Is Celebrating in a Big Way, Forbes Website, October 6, 2024, Accessed January 30, 2025.

America’s Test Kitchen maintains its high standards as the place to go when you want an unbiased view of products and “the best” version of a recipe. They don’t mess around. Well, they do, but in a way that assures a recipe will turn out every time and be the best it can be.

It costs us an average of $10,000 to develop a single recipe, which includes cooking up to 40 versions before finalizing the recipe.

The Editors of America’s Test Kitchen, Join Our Community of Recipe Testers, America’s Test Kitchen website, March 22, 2023,

That attention to detail is evident in everything produced by the ATK brand. If you’ve ever felt that too many modern cookbooks were missing a little something something, that it was more about the Insta-worthy photos than substance, flip through the pages of any ATK cookbook.

“The New Family Cookbook” is no different.

finally! a recipe for a soft and chewy sugar cookie that looks like it came from a bakery
I couldn’t stop eating these chewy yet soft sugar cookies.

Inside “The New Family Cookbook” by America’s Test Kitchen

If you have never seen a cookbook by America’s Test Kitchen, you are going to be so excited. I wish I could be there to see the shocked look on your face. These are recipes you can trust. Always.

In a time when cookbook companies choose to skip images, ATK provides clear, crisp images with many recipes in this 878-page book (that’s with the recipe index). Images do more than showcase the finished product. ATK images highlight a useful kitchen technique or break down the steps involved in a recipe.

Cookbooks from America’s Test Kitchen are for beginning and experienced cooks. “The New Family Cookbook” is a delightful deep dive into a huge variety of food sure to appeal to a wide audience.

Chapters inside “The New Family Cookbook” include:

  • Welcome to America’s Test Kitchen
  • Preface
  • Getting Started
  • Chapter 1 Appetizers
  • Chapter 2 Salads
  • Chapter 3 Soups
  • Chapter 4 Poultry
  • Chapter 5 Meat
  • Chapter 6 Seafood
  • Chapter 7 Vegetarian Entrées
  • Chapter 8 Grilling
  • Chapter 9 Casseroles
  • Chapter 10 Pasta
  • Chapter 11 Pizza and Sandwiches
  • Chapter 12 Vegetables
  • Chapter 13 Rice, Grains, and Beans
  • Chapter 14 Eggs and Breakfast
  • Chapter 15 Quick Breads
  • Chapter 16 Yeast Breads
  • Chapter 17 Cookies and Bars
  • Chapter 18 Cakes
  • Chapter 19 Pies and Tarts
  • Chapter 20 Fruit Desserts
  • Chapter 21 Puddings, Custards, and More
  • The America’s Test Kitchen Shopping Guide
  • Conversions and Equivalencies
  • Index

One of my favorite recipes (other than the sugar cookies), is the One Pan Roast Chicken Parts with Root Vegetables. It is amazing. I plan to try the Oatmeal-Raisin Cookie recipe from this book soon (I know, raisins don’t belong in cookies, but tell that to the man I’m wooing).

I’m also itching to try the Lo Mein recipes, the Best Reuben Sandwich recipe, and the Roast Beef and Blue Cheese Panini (I’m in a sandwich mood).

Then there are the baking recipes. Black and White Cookies, Raspberry Streusel Bars, Oatmeal Butterscotch Bars, and the Chocolate Chip Snack Cake are a small sample of recipes I’ve been eyeing. You’ll like the recipe index, too. It’s highly organized.

I hope you bake this soft and chewy sugar cookie recipe and get lots of use out of this amazing cookbook.

America’s Test Kitchen Cookbooks

A third-party company made newer editions of ATK cookbooks in a ring-bound format. I linked to the legitimate versions of the book instead (whether that was paperback, hardcover, or (at least in the early years, spiralbound).

If you click around, the beginning of the description of these third-party books will say they are not affiliated with America’s Test Kitchen. I don’t like that, and I don’t trust it. Stick with the actual brand. You get what you pay for.

The America’s Test Kitchen Cookbooks List

Cooking at Home With America's Test Kitchen

Cooking at Home With America’s Test Kitchen (2005)

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