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Sugar cookie lovers, where are you? You’ve got to try these new maple sugar cookies! They’re thin and chewy with the perfect crispy edges.
I’ve baked a whole-heck-of-a-lot of cookies in my day; everything from simple sprinkle chocolate chip cookies to festive pumpkin ginger molasses cookies and I never, ever get sick of cookies. Nope.
I do; however, run out of ideas and I have to get creative when I’m brainstorming new recipes though. Actually, that’s how these maple sugar cookies came to be!
Sugar cookies happen to be my favorite of the cookie varieties; I don’t know why, I’m just a plain Jane kinda gal I guess. That and I truly appreciate the simplicity of a good sugar cookie.
But…you can always improve on a good thing right? Precisely. So if I were to add maple syrup and a sweet maple glaze to my plain old sugar cookies, they would become something even better, wouldn’t they? You bet they would!
Wa-la! With just a few changes and a few added ingredients, it’s a whole new cookie! Maple sugar cookies! And just so you know, these little cookies have the best texture; they’re chewy in the center and crispy on the outside. They also have just the perfect hint of maple in the frosting, which is hands down my favorite part.
As I mentioned above, this is a small-batch recipe (you know that’s kinda my thing – wink), so it only makes about 2 dozen cookies per batch, but if you’re feeling really hungry, you can easily just double the recipe and make more!
If you have a list going for all the things you want to bake this fall (me!), don’t forget to add these maple sugar cookies, they’re sure to become a favorite!
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Maple Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
For the cookies:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup 100% maple syrup
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1½ cups flour
For the glaze:
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 TBS 100% maple syrup
- 1-1/2 to 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 tsp sea salt (to taste)
Instructions
For the cookies:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until smooth.
- Add maple syrup, baking soda, cream of tartar, and sea salt and stir to combine.
- Add egg and vanilla extract and mix well.
- Add flour, half at a time, and mix until fully incorporated.
- Using a 1.5 TBS cookie scoop, scoop dough and place on a lined baking sheet 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 12 minutes, rotating halfway through.
- Let cookies cool completely on the cookie sheets.
For the glaze:
- In a small bowl whisk together all ingredients until smooth.
- When cookies are fully cool, drizzle glaze over cookies.
- Transfer cookies to a wire rack to harden.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
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Thanks for this. I love that its small batch. I am a sugar cookie gal myself
Hope you enjoy them! They’re one of my favorites! 🙂
I love all cookies, but haven’t made sugar cookies yet. There are just so many different thing to make. I love how you add maple to this recipe, so perfect for this season!
Thank you Trang! These are for sure one of our favorite cookies!
Yeah, you pulled me right in. I LOVE sugar cookies and I am always using maple syrup so you know I love that too. Thanks for the delicious recipe.
Thank you! Hope you love them Ginny, we sure do!
These cookies would be delicious with milk!!
Thanks so much, Vaughn! 🙂
Now these sound like my kind of cookies – they look totally delicious!
Thanks so much, Bintu! I agree with you – they might be my VERY favorite!
I’m always looking for ways to use up leftover maple syrup and this looks like the perfect recipe!
Thank you so much Thanh! This would be a great recipe for that and the cookies are super soft and chewy! Mmm! 🙂
My husband is going to love these! Saving now!
I hope he does Lisa, thanks! 🙂
Oh my lanta, these look so good! Saving this for sure!
Haha Lauren! Thank you so much! Hope you love ’em!
You had me at ‘Maple”!
Thank you Jillian! Me too, me too! 🙂
These sound delicious ? I think I’m going to make these for Thanksgiving !
Thank you Chelsea, I hope you love them!
Here I am!! I am your sugar cookie lover!! Hands are raised high! I will take a batch or two of these, I am loving the maple … yummy
Haha, I love this Dahn! Woohoo for the sugar cookies! Thank you so, so much!
I did something wrong. Mine came out as paper thin bars. The dough spread out across the entire cookie pan! Any idea what step I messed up? I thought I did it all spot on.