The Best & Healthier Sugar Cookies

A healthier alternative to the traditional sugar cookie with the same classic taste! Easy and delicious, these cut-out cookies are a perfect holiday treat!

When Christmas rolls around, I’m all about the sugar cookies. Every year when I was in high schools, my best friends would all go over to one house and make sugar cookies. 

We were like baking elves just cranking out hundreds of sugar cookies. I really mean hundreds. And her mom would be over in the corner, just cranking out royal icing to keep up with our decorating skills. We could have opened up a shop!

Now, this recipe is roughly based off of what my best friends and I would do so many years ago. Of course, I had to bring the measurements way down. I mean, I’m not trying to open up a bake shop in my tiny Brooklyn apartment! I also had to really crank up the quality of ingredients.

If you know me at all, you know I’m really about quality of ingredients rather than the “cleanness” of ingredients or calories in the food. See, I think by rating a food or ingredient as clean or not, you’re placing a black and white judgement on it, when really there’s a gradient of gray in there.

Could I have made these sugar cookies completely paleo and sugar-free and vegan? Sure I could. But the whole point of this cookie series is to show you that the quality of ingredients (i.e. where it’s sourced from) matters more than whether it’s low-fat, sugar-free, grain-free, dairy-free, etc. Now I understand that some people have allergies, which is why I’ve put notes at the bottom of the recipe for ingredient swap-outs.

But to me, I like to focus on where the ingredients come from. Are you using a flour that’s made from a factory that mass-produces several very cheap and easy ingredients and distributes them all over the country or are you using a small batch flour that’s organic and distributed to only a small section of the region? To me, it matters. Of course, you can change the energy of your food very easily, but that’s only if you’re in that high vibration, which many people are not, so that’s why I recommend choosing the easier route until you can!

So these sugar cookies are fairly hard to mess up. All you need to do is use a hand mixer to beat together the eggs, pour in the flour slowly, chill the dough, then roll it out!

One of the best tips for these cookies is using powdered sugar instead of regular granulated sugar. I know, I know, it sounds strange. Isn’t powdered sugar just for the royal icing? Nope! You can actually use a lot less sugar and to me, it tastes better! Plus, they don’t spread as easily for some reason. Go figure, just a tip I picked up from childhood!

My favorite part is using the cookie cutters. There are so many, and over the years, I’ve collected quite a few. I still need snowman though…working on it! Just make sure you refrigerate the dough long enough before rolling it out!

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