Sprinkle Cookies are every kids dream! Soft saccharide cookies are rolled in sprinkles to encompass then pressed in addition to baked. An easy, delicious process! You tin can swap out the sprinkle colors to coordinate amongst the near recent holiday.
Fun Festive Christmas Cookies
Here y'all become a soft, somewhat cake-like saccharide cookie that’sec perfectly sugariness, in addition to has such a tasty funfetti-similar flavor!
You’ll beloved how tardily these are to make and the kids volition dearest to assistance.
Can I Use Different Types of Sprinkles?
Colored saccharide, crystal sprinkles, or jimmies will function keen hither. Nonpareils add a scrap of a compaction, fine sugar sprinkles will add a faint crush as well as jimmies volition be soft. If using colored carbohydrate you’ll likely alone postulate i/2 loving cup since they’re finer.
Ingredients for Sprinkle Cookies
- All-role flour – to pass on the cookies structure.
- Baking pulverisation in addition to baking soda – and so they ascent.
- Granulated saccharide – for sugariness.
- Salt – to rest the sweet.
- Unsalted butter – to give wet in addition to richness.
- Cream cheese – adds season as well as makes them soft.
- Egg – to bind.
- Sprinkles – but for fun!
How to Make Sprinkle Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets alongside parchment newspaper or silicone baking mats.
- In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking pulverization, baking soda and table salt, set up aside.
- In the bowl of an electrical stand up mixer fitted alongside a paddle attachment blend butter, sugar, as well as cream cheese until good combined.
- Mix inwards egg, vanilla extract as well as almond extract.
- Add inward flour mixture too mix until combined (in higher humidity you lot may demand to chill dough 30 minutes if it’sec also glutinous to work alongside).
- Place sprinkles inwards a modest mixing bowl.
- Scoop dough out 1 one/two Tbsp at a time as well as form into balls and then coil through sprinkles. Transfer to baking sheets spacing two-inches apart.
- Flatten cookies with the bottom of a loving cup (almost halfway).
- Bake one canvass at a fourth dimension inwards preheated oven, virtually 9 minutes (cookies should seem slightly nether-baked).
- Let cool on baking canvass then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store cookies inward an airtight container.
Can I Omit the Almond Extract?
I don’t recommend omitting the almond extract inwards these cookies, it adds lots of flavour. BUT if there is an allergy and then you lot tin can merely purpose vanilla extract. I’d probably add together a whole tablespoon.
Can I Omit the Sprinkles?
If y'all desire simply a basic sugar cookie the sprinkles can live omitted. Or you tin can simply role less sprinkle past sprinkling them over the tops of flattened cookies (together with gently pressing into cookies) earlier baking.
Make it a Snickerdoodle
Omit the sprinkles together with gyre in cinnamon carbohydrate (1/iii cup carbohydrate in addition to one Tbsp cinnamon).
More Cookie Recipes to Try!
- Funfetti Shortbread Bites
- One Santa Cookie
- Butter Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Bites
- Circus Animal Cookies
- Lofthouse Style Frosted Sugar Cookies
Sprinkle Cookies
Ingredients
- two 1/ii cups (355g) all-use flour (scoop in addition to level to measure out)
- i tsp baking powder
- one/four tsp baking soda
- 1/ii tsp salt
- i loving cup (226g) unsalted butter, softened just still slightly firm
- ane i/iv cups (250g) granulated carbohydrate
- 2 oz. (56g) cream cheese, softened just still slightly business firm
- i large egg
- i tsp vanilla extract
- one/2 tsp almond extract
- three/iv - one loving cup sprinkles (nonpareils, jimmies or colored saccharide sprinkles)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets amongst parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
- In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking pulverisation, baking soda together with table salt, set aside.
- In the bowl of an electrical stand mixer fitted alongside a paddle attachment blend butter, saccharide, as well as cream cheese until well combined.
- Mix inwards egg, vanilla extract and almond extract.
- Add inwards flour mixture too mix until combined (inwards higher humidity yous may require to chill dough thirty minutes if it'second too glutinous to run with).
- Place sprinkles inwards a small-scale mixing bowl.
- Scoop dough out ane i/two Tbsp at a fourth dimension and shape into balls so coil through sprinkles. Transfer to baking sheets spacing 2-inches apart.
- Flatten cookies most halfway using the bottom of a cup or glass.
- Bake i canvas at a fourth dimension in preheated oven, virtually 9 minutes (cookies should appear slightly under-baked).
- Let cool on baking canvass and so transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store cookies inward an airtight container.
Notes
- Recipe adapted from King Arthur Flour.
Amount Per Serving
Calories 135
Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*