Bump. Thinking ahead to holiday cookies. (Yum!)

OP here, thank everyone for the responses!

The recipe on the bag of Domino sugar is a good one (good amt of butter, but not too much to make the dough unwieldy). Pro tip: the recipe measures sifted flour. If you are measuring unsifted flour, use a bit less than it calls for.

Anonymous wrote:http://allrecipes.com/recipe/the-best-rolled-sugar-cookies/detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=rolled%20sugar%20cookies&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e7=Home%20Page

And super easy too!

That's the one I use and I make the rolled variety quite often. Tasty!

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/the-best-rolled-sugar-cookies/detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=rolled%20sugar%20cookies&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e7=Home%20Page

And super easy too!

I would do a gingerbread cookie if you really want flavor. The Joy of Cooking recipe is a good one. My favorite sugar cookie is from Gourmet's December 2003 issue. You can find it on epicurious. They also have some flavoring variations using the basic recipe although the basic recipe is delicious, especially if you use plugra butter.

Google the cook's illustrated recipe that has corn starch in it - that's the best I've found. (Although you have to subscribe to cook's illustrated to get a recipe from their site, you can find this and other recipes by food bloggers on various other sites.)

Also, think about adding fresh lemon zest and flavoring.

My 3.5 year old loves baking with me and decorating cookies. I have tried a few different recipes (one from a box mix, one from the Joy of Cooking and one from online) and while the cookie dough is tasty, the cookies themselves aren't really all that good once they are baked. They all just taste bland and boring and we wind up throwing them out. Would love a cookie recipe where we can still use the cookie cutters and the cookies actually are tasty. TIA.