Perusing the Easter aisle at Target gave me the baking itch! All those colored peeps and chocolate eggs gave me a hankering to make pretty pastel sugar cookies! 
One of my college roommates, Rebecca, was in love with those soft, Lofthouse sugar cookies–you know them well–pale, cakey, and comforting in their sweet simplicity. Since then, I’ve been on a hunt for a similar sugar cookie-not crisp or chewy, but just soft and doughy. And I found it here…
The sugar cookies I usually make are crisp, so I roll them quite thin…With this recipe, the thicker I rolled them, the better they were!
I used a simple icing made from powdered sugar, a bit of corn syrup, a touch of almond extract, and enough milk to get the desired consistency (somewhere between pipeable and spreadable).
I was a bit too lazy to fill 5 piping bags, so I just piped white borders around each cookie and spread the colored icing within the borders using the back of a spoon. Perhaps I’ll be a bit more ambitious this weekend 
I knew that box of 100 cookie cutters I bought in LA and moved across country would come in handy one of these days!
BRIG these look absolutely delicious! hope you had a wonderful easter! miss you!
Ahhh, thanks for the shout-out! I’m sure these are way way better than the Lofthouse ones…(but did you know they now make a Strawberry Shortcake flavor?!?!)
Freakin adorable!! Loooove them!
Adorable and after my own heart at decorating baked goods. Should have emailed you pics of my mini Easter cupcakes
Brigitte: Those are the best looking Easter cookies ever! Your friends at the U.S. Olympic Committee would like to try them sometime…hint hint! Good luck in San Antonio!
These are SO pretty! -e