Weight Watchers Sugar Cookies are a nice, lighter cookie to enjoy when you’re trying to eat a little bit lighter.
Yes, you can eat lightened up cookies on Valentine’s Day when you’re watching your calories. A little sweet treat will satisfy you when you’re craving something really bad! These aren’t bad, and you don’t have to feel guilty for eating them.
Ingredients needed:
- all purpose flour
- baking powder
- salt
- ground nutmeg
- white sugar
- butter
- egg white
- vanilla extract
- reduced-fat sour cream
- powdered sugar
- vanilla extract
- food coloring
How to make Weight Watchers Sugar Cookies:
Mix the dough and pat it into a disk. Wrap it with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least one hour. Chilled dough is easier to roll out. Roll out the dough and cut out shapes. Use hearts for Valentine’s Day or other shapes for different holidays or celebrations!
Place the cut-out cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for about 12 minutes. Then transfer the baked cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely.
These simple cookies need glaze to give them a little more sweetness as well as a pretty drizzle. The glaze is made of powdered sugar, water, vanilla and coloring. Make whatever color glaze you’d like!
The glaze will harden as the cookies are given a chance to sit. Sprinkle a little bit of chunky sugar on top, if desired.
These are not super sweet and decadent sugar cookies… because they’re Weight Watchers Sugar Cookies! They’re a sweet treat that’s delicious to enjoy if you’re watching your calories (or if you’re on the WW program). You’ll find a link to the WW Points on the recipe card at the end of this post. The great thing about Weight Watchers recipes is that you can substitute healthier ingredients to make the recipes more appropriate to eat on a weight loss program.
After the icing has hardened, you can store these cookies in a covered container with layers separated by wax paper. When you’re following the WW program, put these Weight Watchers Sugar Cookies in little zip baggies of two per baggie. And then pop them in the freezer where they are safe from over-indulging! Then you can take them out when the craving hits. Enjoy!
If you are looking for more Weight Watchers cookie recipes, you might like to try my Iced Orange Cookies or these 3-Ingredient Almond Butter Cookies.
Weight Watchers Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
COOKIES:
- 1½ cups all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅔ cup granulated white sugar
- ¼ cup (½ stick) salted butter, at room temperature
- 1 large egg white
- ¾ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup reduced-fat sour cream
ICING:
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- food coloring, optional
Instructions
PREPARE THE COOKIES:
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, nutmeg and salt. In a larger bowl, use an electric mixer to blend together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg white and vanilla, scraping the sides of the bowl as needed. Add the flour mixture and the sour cream alternately, beginning and ending with the flour mixture and beating just until blended. Shape the dough into a disk and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350℉. Line baking sheets with silicon mats or parchment paper (or spray with nonstick spray).
- On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough to a thickness of ¼-inch. Using a 2-inch cookie cutter (I used a heart, but you can use any shape), cut out the cookies re-rolling the scraps to make a total of 28 cookies. Place cookies 1-inch apart on baking sheets.
- Bake until the cookies are very lightly browned at the edges, 12 to 14 minutes. Transfer cookies to a rack and cool completely.
PREPARE THE ICING:
- In a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, water and vanilla. Add coloring, if using. Use a spoon to drizzle icing over the cookies.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This did not turn out well. Done according to recipe. These are crunchy. Taste is ok. But I expected a better result. Disappointing. Hoped give these for Hanukkah.
If you are not looking for a weight watchers recipe, then I would use a different recipe (these are very light and not full of a ton of flavor). I’d use this recipe if I wasn’t worried about it being WW: https://www.recipegirl.com/no-fail-sugar-cookies/
Thank you for sharing this recipe! I am on Weight Watchers and do not want to sabotage my diet, but definitely will try this recipe! 🙂 I just received my new Stampin’ Up! Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps and I am eager to use them with your recipe! 🙂