Try These Mother’s Day Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Help your mom feel special on Mothers Day with these sugar cookies! Dye the cream cheese frosting beautiful colors, and cut the dough into fun shapes. A perfect Mother’s Day treat for kids to make and gift to mom. Kids will love this activity and mothers day sugar cookies they can give as a present.

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been making these sour cream sugar cookies with my mom.  I continued doing that as an adult in college.  My mom even mailed some to me both Christmases that I was a missionary serving in Puerto Rico!

Everyone I’ve ever introduced to these cookies has told me that they taste so much better than traditional sugar cookies – and they’re right.  Try them for yourself and see!

The best part about these sour cream sugar cookies is they work for any holiday, not just Christmas! You just need the right cookie cutter!

Mother's Day Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Mother’s Day Sugar Cookies

The “secret” ingredient for these sour cream sugar cookies recipe is in the name – the sour cream!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 5 cups flour
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp. baking soda

Directions

Cream together:

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 eggs

Add in:

  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Mix together and then slowly stir in:

  • 5 cups flour
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp. baking soda

Be careful not to over-beat the egg! Roll out on a floured surface to 3/4″.  Cut the dough into circles or use cookie cutters to cut these sour cream sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting into whichever shapes you’d like!

Bake at 425* for 5 minutes.  Allow to cool completely before frosting.

Mother's Day Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream Cheese Frosting

You can’t enjoy these sour cream sugar cookies without topping them with cream cheese frosting! It’s super easy to dye for each occasion.

Ingredients

  • 1 cube (1/2 cup) butter
  • 8 oz softened cream cheese
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • up to 5 cups powdered sugar

Directions

Beat together:

  • 1 cube (1/2 cup) butter
  • 1 pack (8 oz) softened cream cheese

Add:

  • 1 tsp vanilla

Alternate adding these items while beating:

  • 1/4 total cup milk
  • Up to 5 cups of powdered sugar

You need to alternate adding sugar and milk so it dough doesn’t clump!  Keep on beating until dough is smooth and at the desired texture.  If mix is too runny, just add a bit of powdered sugar.  If it is too thick, and a tiny bit of milk.

Tip: this recipe is my favorite frosting recipe for cinnamon rolls!

Decorated Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

Here are some amazing ideas and tips on how to decorate these sour cream sugar cookies for Mother’s Day.

Decorating and photos done by Sara Welburn Photography.

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Mother's Day Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Yield: 2 dozen

These delicious but easy sour cream sugar cookies with a cream cheese frosting are light and fluffy, and they are are perfect for cutting into fun shapes with cookie cutters!

Topped with a delicious homemade cream cheese frosting, these cookies are perfecting for making and decorating with your children to share with others.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3 cubes butter (1 1/2 cups)
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 5 cups flour
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 pack (8 oz) softened cream cheese
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 5 cups of powdered sugar

Instructions

Cookies

  1. Cream together the sugar, 1 cup (2 cubes) butter, and eggs.
  2. Add in sour cream and 1 tsp vanilla
  3. Mix together
  4. Slowly stir in flour, salt, and baking soda
  5. Be careful not to over-beat!
  6. Roll our onto a floured surface to 3/4" thickness.
  7. Cut into circles or use cookie cutters.
  8. Bake at 425 degrees for 5 minutes. Allow to cool completely before decorating.

Frosting

  1. Beat together 1 cube butter and cream cheese
  2. Add 1 tsp vanilla
  3. Alternate adding powdered sugar and milk while beating
  4. You need to alternate or else it will clump up
  5. Keep on beating until smooth and at the desired texture
  6. If mix is too runny, just add a bit of powdered sugar.  If it is too thick, add a tiny bit of milk.

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