These Iced Maple Amish Sugar Cookies are so puffy, pillowy, and soft, they literally melt in your mouth! Who doesn’t love a perfect and potent maple sugar cookie with a thick slathering of maple icing? These Iced Maple Amish Sugar Cookies could not be easier, and are made with common pantry ingredients!
Two falls ago, I tested out several recipes for perfect maple cookies, and I wasn’t happy with them. Trader Joe’s and Wegman’s both carry maple cookies that are shaped like leaves and verrrrry maple-y. I’ve wanted to make a copycat version of those, but I didn’t love the ones I tried, and it was a major hassle to make them as cut-outs.
I have no shortage of leaf cookie cutters, in fact, you can find these gorgeous Fall Leaves Sugar Cookie Cut-outs from a few years ago. But making cut-out cookies is not awesome. They’re a lot of work.
Given that Amish Sugar Cookies are SO good and SO versatile, I thought I’d just make a maple version, these Iced Maple Amish Sugar Cookies. These are just missing the maple leaf-shaped part, but otherwise, they’re the perfect soft maple cookie.
If you have a cookie recipe that you love, just adapt it. Now I can put the perfect maple cookie search to rest.
These Iced Maple Amish Sugar Cookies retain the best features of traditional Amish Sugar Cookies: they’re a lot like a cut-out cookie, but they’re a drop cookie, so they’re a fraction of the work. No chilling, no rolling & cutting. They’re very soft, puffy, and pillowy.
The texture of Amish Sugar Cookies is unmatched, and that stays front and center in these Iced Maple Amish Sugar Cookies too. They’re buttery and sweet, kinda flaky, and very soft and puffy. They literally melt in your mouth. They’re universally adored, in my experience!
These Iced Maple Amish Sugar Cookies are maple-ified, big time. Lots of maple from the cookie to the icing. Could you add nuts on top? Yes, and I thought about it: a maple nut cookie. However, I really wanted to keep these Iced Maple Amish Sugar Cookies as a simple, perfect maple cookie, straight-forward and uncomplicated. So there you have it!
Amish Sugar Cookies are nothing if not versatile, and so here’s allllll the different ones I’ve got so far:
- Eggnog Amish Sugar Cookies
- Cranberry Orange Amish Sugar Cookies
- Iced Vanilla Amish Sugar Cookies
- Cherry Almond Amish Sugar Cookies
- Pecan Praline Amish Sugar Cookies
- Pumpkin Spice Latte Amish Sugar Cookies
- Iced Chai-Spiced Amish Sugar Cookies
- Thin Crispy Amish Sugar Cookies
- Iced Almond Sugar Cookies
- Iced Lemon Amish Sugar Cookies
- Toasted Coconut Amish Sugar Cookies
- Coconut Oil Amish Sugar Cookies
- Peppermint Amish Sugar Cookies
Yeah, it’s a lot. But Amish Sugar Cookies are amazing, so there’s just no overdoing them!
Iced Maple Amish Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
For cookies:
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup vegetable or canola oil
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 tbsp. maple extract
- 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. cream of tartar
For icing:
- 4 tbsp. butter melted
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 tsp. maple extract
- 3 - 4 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
For cookies:
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In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter, oil, and sugars until combined.
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Beat in eggs, vanilla, and maple extract.
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In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar.
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Gradually add flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating until just combined after each addition. Do not overmix.
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Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
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Drop dough by small teaspoonfuls onto baking sheets.
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Bake at 375 for 8-11 minutes, or until edges and bottoms are lightly browned.
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Remove to wire racks to cool.
For icing:
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In a medium bowl, whisk together butter, maple syrup, vanilla, maple extract, and 3 cups powdered sugar.
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Add additional powdered sugar, as needed, to achieve a consistency that is thicker than a glaze - it shouldn't run off the cookie - but easily spreadable.
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Frost cookies, and allow to set.
Recipe Notes
These are good for at least a week, but best within the first 3 days. After 3 days, they get crumbly and a bit on the drier side - still a delicious cookie though.
These freeze really well! Iced or plain, they freeze beautifully.
I've made these Amish Sugar Cookies into Pumpkin Spice Latte Amish Sugar Cookies, Iced Chai-Spiced Amish Sugar Cookies, Iced Almond Cookies, Iced Lemon Amish Sugar Cookies, Iced Orange Amish Sugar Cookies, Toasted Coconut Amish Sugar Cookies, Coconut Oil Amish Sugar Cookies, and Thin Crispy Amish Sugar Cookies!
Maple icing adapted from Taste of Home.
Maggie says
October 8, 2018 at 8:10 amSO delicious! And I love how the ingredients are common and simple. Cut back just a smidge on the maple extract in both the cookie and icing and still plenty of maple taste….
Thanks for posting the recipe and the variations, can’t wait to try some of the others
Sarah says
October 8, 2018 at 9:55 pmI do like things strongly flavored – I’m so glad you adjusted the maple to your preference. 🙂 Thanks so much for your comment! I’m thrilled that you liked them. Amish Sugar Cookies have become such a staple for me!!
Candace says
November 20, 2018 at 12:27 pmCan you substitute maple syrup for the maple extract?
Sarah says
November 20, 2018 at 3:34 pmNot equivalently! You could sub a few tablespoons of maple syrup, and it should have minimal impact to texture. Maple extract is much more potent though, so it’s helpful if you have it on hand. The glaze is where the maple of these cookies really comes out, so I would check to see if there’s a maple icing out there that uses only maple syrup – that might be the best bet! I hope that helps!
Kathy brittell says
September 2, 2019 at 3:54 pmWanted something sweet for the hubby he loves anything maple! THese cookies are so good!They taste like cookies i used to make with my grandma only the maple flavor makes them even better.they are so easy to throw together thank you for a great recipe!
Sarah says
September 2, 2019 at 9:21 pmI love a good maple cookie!!! I’ve struggled to find one I love until I decided to take a cookie recipe I love and make it over with maple. It worked out great. I’m so glad you like these too. Thank you for sharing your feedback, and I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend. 🙂
Stacy says
November 22, 2019 at 12:22 pmI would like to try these but am actually looking for a cut out cookie recipe. Can I treat this recipe as a cut out cookie recipe without messing them up?
Sarah says
November 23, 2019 at 2:44 pmI have not tried them as cutouts yet, but I intend to. For now, I’d say not try to them as cutouts because I’m not sure how they will do. I think if the dough is thoroughly chilled, they will work, but I haven’t tried myself!