Soft, puffy, melt-in-your-mouth Amish Sugar Cookies, but made bakery-style, big, fat, tall, and thick! These sugar cookies could not be easier and they’re made with common pantry ingredients. Top these Big Fat Amish Sugar Cookies with your favorite icing and sprinkles or nuts for an extra special cookie!
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This isn’t a “new” recipe, so I’ll keep this short & sweet. Today’s post is more like a PSA.
I want to shout out a fun discovery about Amish Sugar Cookies. In addition to the dozens of ways they can be adapted for different flavors, icings, and toppings, they can also be made BIG & FAT.
Amish Sugar Cookies have proved to be immensely versatile. Just for fun, I experimented with making these cookies exceptionally sizable, and the results were wonderful.
Whether I make these cookies dinky, using just a scant teaspoonful of dough (yes, that tiny of an amount), or I make them from large, golf ball or mandarin orange-sized mounds of dough, they turn out beautifully. No matter the size, these cookies are the BEST.
I’ve never found a more versatile cookie recipe than Amish Sugar Cookies. Whatever you do to them, they’re impossible to screw up, and they’re always delightful.
For Big Fat Amish Sugar Cookies, the basic recipe is the SAME. Ingredients and preparation are identical to the original.
The only differences are:
- Scooping a larger ball of dough, obvi. Slightly larger than the size of a golf ball. A large rounded scoop; and
- Adding 4-5 minutes baking time.
Amish Sugar Cookies can be made into tiny, little, petite cookies, or rather gargantuan, thick, bakery-style cookies. Exciting!
With many cookie recipes, in order to make big, fat cookies, you need to tweak the dough. For example, you can’t just take any chocolate chip cookie recipe and scoop bigger dough balls and expect the same result as regular-sized cookies. The edges burn, while the center can be soggy or undercooked, or they spread too much and become pancakes.
Usually adjustments must be made.
But not these.
Big Fat Amish Sugar Cookies are still soft, puffy, flaky, buttery, rich, melt-in-your-mouth cookies, just like their “normal”-sized counterparts. The texture and flavor is unchanged. They’re just an oversized cookie! Bigger, fatter, and taller. Magical!
Big Fat Amish Sugar Cookies hold their own without a glaze or icing, but they also dress up easily. Many ideas listed below!
I seriously don’t know of a more versatile cookie recipe in all existence. I’ve tested this one eight ways to Sunday, and it’s as reliable and adaptable as it gets.
For impressively massive sugar cookies that are pretty much perfect all-around, give these Big Fat Amish Sugar Cookies a try.
To peruse through every other variation of Amish Sugar Cookies that I’ve come up with, take a look here –>
- Iced Vanilla Amish Sugar Cookies
- Cherry Almond Amish Sugar Cookies
- Chocolate Cherry Amish Sugar Cookies
- Pecan Praline Amish Sugar Cookies
- Iced Maple 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
- Butter Pecan Amish Sugar Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Amish Sugar Cookies
- Pistachio Coconut Amish Sugar Cookies
- Eggnog Amish Sugar Cookies
- Cranberry Orange Amish Sugar Cookies
- Brown Butter Amish Sugar Cookies
- Snickerdoodle Amish Sugar Cookies with Cinnamon Icing
- Strawberry Amish Sugar Cookies
Big Fat Amish Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup vegetable or canola oil
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. cream of tartar
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter, oil, and sugars until combined.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar.
- In two additions, add flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating until just combined. Do not overmix. Dough will be kinda fluffy and light!
- Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. It is not a must to use parchment or silicone mats, but I find that my cookies don't stick, and even more importantly, they don't spread! They stay puffier and thicker!
- Drop dough by large rounded tablespoonfuls onto baking sheets -- golfball-sized mounds. I *highly* recommend using a cookie scoop -- it helps cookies achieve a thicker and taller result, without needing to intentionally "mound" the dough, and it also helps with roundness, uniformity, and even baking.
- Bake at 375 for 9-10 minutes, rotate the pan 180 degrees, and then bake another 4-5 minutes, or until edges and bottoms are lightly browned.
- Remove to wire racks to cool.
Notes
Your work is so full of useful information.
I love the taste! But my cookies spread and the edges turned brown before the centers were done. I cooled the dough for the second pan and they did the same. I’m really looking to get a fat cookie!
Hmmm… these don’t spread a ton, sorry to hear you experienced that. If you make the scoops as tall as possible, that might prevent the spreading. But I understand that this might not be the right cookie for you and for what you’re looking for. Hope you enjoyed them all the same!
I was looking for a cakier sugar cookie and this totally hit the spot, so simple to make but such a delicious outcome 🤌🏼
I was planning on making these again but I was wondering – am I able to make the dough ahead of time and store it in the fridge or freezer?
I love these cookies because they are delicious – a perfect sugar cookie. But also I can always make them on the fly – easy and I always have the ingredients!
I adore the flavor! But before the centers of my cookies were done, they spread and the edges browned. They followed my lead and cooled the dough for the second pan. A big cookie is what I truly want!
I was on the hunt for a big thick cookie and this delivered!! So light and fluffy – AMAZING!
YAY!!
These came out perfect just like your picture and recipe. I will use this recipe for all my sugar cookies. Thank You!
Could these be made into bars? If so, what size pan and time? I have made several versions and they are all delicious! Thank you.
I’ve never tried them as bars! That’s a really interesting thought though! I’d like to try that — if you beat me to it, let me know what you think.
Could these be made into bars? If so, what size pan and for how long? I have made several versions and they all have been delicious!
Can you freeze the dough before you bake it?
Yes, you can freeze this dough prepared, but you do have to thaw before you bake it…. I hope that info is helpful.
These are excellent. Soft & fluffy. Didn’t even last one week here. My favorite cookie now!
Great taste. Just a little dry. Maybe I mixed the batter a bit too long. Frosted them with cream cheese frosting. That helped. Otherwise very good.
Yes I made these cookies today ummmmmmm delish . I will be making them again thank you
Your ❤️ recipes 😋 looks delicious 😋 😍 😀 👌
I want to add a walnut half to the center. Before or after baking?
I love that idea… that’s a great question though. I honestly think you’d do it 2 minutes before they are done. Remove from the oven, press the walnut in while soft, and bake til finished so that it gets toasted. I know that sounds complicated, but I think that’s the ideal way.
This my second time making these cookies and this time I added pecans 🤤🤤🤤
I just made these and am so pleased with them. Family hasn’t tried the yet asI just took the, out of oven.
Yay! Let me know how you like them!