Supremely soft Lofthouse-Style Cookies covered in frosting with bright sprinkles are by far my favorite sugar cookie. I am obsessed with the cake-like texture of these cookies. The store-bought ones, as good as I think they are, taste like they are made almost solely of artificial ingredients.

 
I was pretty sure the texture couldn’t be replicated in a homemade cookie, but it can and with ingredients you most likely have on hand.
 
Back when my son was getting chemotherapy for testicular cancer, we had tons of neighbors bring us meals. I literally didn’t cook dinner for 3 months! One of them brought some homemade Lofthouse-Style Cookies for dessert and I still remember them all these months later.
I don’t know why, but it had never occurred to me to make these cookies homemade. They were just something I allowed myself to buy at the store maybe once a year as a special treat.  
Well, those cookies were so good I knew I had to make my own, and it has only taken me 15 months to do so. 
I’ll never get around to making all the things I want to!

This cookie dough recipe is from Recipes, Food, and Cooking . I changed the frosting from a cream cheese one to a buttercream. I didn’t color my frosting, but you could totally tint it pink, yellow, or even baby blue to make beautiful Easter cookies.
 
Most of the Lofthouse Style Cookie recipes have sour cream in them. This one doesn’t so I’m curious to try using sour cre...