Soft and chewy sugar cookie recipes?

Everywhere I look I can’t find a really good chewy sugar cookie recipe. All of the ones I find have frosting and sprinkles and extra stuff. I love the sugar cookies at Hometown buffet, anyone know what I’m talking about? Does anyone have a good recipe for me? I am craving them so bad.
Thank you in advance.

Any good cookie recipes that don’t use vanilla?

Hi, does anyone out there know a good cookie recipe that doesn’t use vanilla, because I don’t know for sure that I have any. Plus, I don’t have much else to do today. Thanks a lot!
OH, so it wouldn’t hurt not to use vanilla in a sugar cookie recipe? Well, I guess I can try that out. Thanks, and any other answers would be nice, thanks.
Oh, thanks for the call about sugar cookies without vanilla, I guess i’ll try to get some vanilla when I can, and not make the cookies today. Thanks!

What’s a good no-powdered sugar icing recipe to go on top of holiday sugar cookies?

In the middle of cooking sugar cookies, and realized I don’t have any powdered sugar to make my traditional icing. Any ideas for icing alternatives other than using sprinkles?
FYI, confectioner’s sugar IS powdered sugar….

Cookie recipes that can withstand being shipped to Iraq for Halloween/Thanksgiving?

I don’t want to make sugar cookies, saving those for Christmas… What are some Fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving cookie recipes that I could look into that would withstand being shipped to Iraq? I need something that wont be total crumbs by the time they get there, but also wont spoil the 2+ weeks in transit… Anything (other than a sugar cookie) that works well with cookie cutters is also a plus.