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BIRTHDAY CAKE COOKIES

Nellie — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:16:55 +0000

Birthday Cake Cookies are soft vanilla cookies with lots of sprinkles! This simple cookie recipe tastes like your favorite birthday cake in cookie form.

Birthday Cake Cookies are so much fun – no birthdays necessary. You can eat them anytime you want. These cookies are actually amazing even without the sprinkles, or you can use seasonal sprinkles to make them work for whatever holiday or special occasion you are celebrating. Using vanilla pudding mix in the recipe makes the cookies so soft and it adds a lot of vanilla flavor too.

Cookie recipes that include pudding always help create the soft texture we all love, but below you’ll find a few other tips for making soft cookies!

SOME TIPS FOR MAKING COOKIES THAT STAY SOFT AND CHEWY:

Make sure that you have enough flour in the dough. If the dough is too sticky, you may need to add a little bit of flour.
Make sure you use softened butter – DON’T melt it! One of the most common errors in cookie making is using butter that is either really cold and hard, or using butter that is too warm and melted. If you have time, just leave butter out on the counter for about 1-2 hours before making your cookies. If you are like me and don’t plan your cookie cravings that far in advance, just place the butter in your microwave and soften in 5 second intervals, being very careful to pull it out before it melts. I actually like to use the defrost setting on my microwave to soften butter- I don’t know the technical reasons behind it, but it seems to soften the butter more evenly and takes a little bit longer so I’m less likely to start melting it!
Spend a little extra time when you mix the butter and sugars. Creaming them together for 2-3 minutes will improve the consistency of your cookies.
Preheat the oven. This will help your cookies turn out right every time!
Use a cookie scoop! If you want all your cookies to be perfectly shaped and have them all be the same size, a cookie scoop is the way to go.
Use parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Doing this will make it really easy to remove the cookies from your cookie sheet so that you don’t have to scrape them off the pan – they will just slide right off in perfect shape!
Don’t over bake the cookies – when I take mine out of the oven, they still look slightly under baked but they will continue to bake on the cookie sheet for a couple more minutes so that’s ok!

INGREDIENTS IN BIRTHDAY CAKE COOKIES

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 (3.4 oz) pkg instant vanilla pudding mix
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/3-1/2 cup sprinkles

HOW TO MAKE BIRTHDAY CAKE COOKIES

Using a hand mixer, cream the butter and sugars. Add the pudding mix and mix until well blended.
Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well.
Add the flour and baking soda and continue mixing.
Stir in the sprinkles.
Drop cookies by rounded teaspoonfuls (I use a cookie scoop) onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 350°.

BIRTHDAY CAKE COOKIES

Birthday Cake Cookies are soft vanilla cookies with lots of sprinkles! This simple cookie recipe tastes like your favorite birthday cake in cookie form.

Course Cookies

Cuisine American

Keyword birthday cake cookies

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 10

Author Jessica & Nellie

Ingredients

1 cup butter softened
1 cup sugar
1 3.4 oz pkg instant vanilla pudding mix
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/3-1/2 cup sprinkles

Instructions

Using a hand mixer, cream the butter and sugars. Add the pudding mix and mix until well blended.
Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well.
Add the flour and baking soda and continue mixing.
Stir in the sprinkles.
Drop cookies by rounded teaspoonfuls (I use a cookie scoop) onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 350°.

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Birthday Cake Cookies are soft vanilla cookies with lots of sprinkles! This simple cookie recipe tastes like your favorite birthday cake in cookie form.

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CHRISTMAS SPRINKLE COOKIES

Jessica — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:55:09 +0000

Christmas Sprinkle Cookies are sugar Cookies rolled in Christmas sprinkles for a special holiday treat! Delightfully soft & chewy Christmas cookies made with festive holiday sprinkles!

Christmas cookies are a traditional treat in almost every house. They’re so popular that there are cookie gift exchanges where people share their favorites with friends and family! Imagine bringing these colorful and tasty Christmas sprinkle cookies to your next cookie exchange party. They’re sure to be an incredible hit!

Tips for Making these Christmas Sprinkle Cookies

They will spread a lot during the baking process so make sure that you give each one space on the pan to do so. I recommend not placing more than 8 on a cooking sheet.

Another tip is that because you’ll be rolling the dough in your sprinkles, having your sprinkles in a pie plate could be a great way to roll them around without feeling as confined as you would inside a cereal bowl.

Should I chill these sugar cookies?

You could if you wanted to, but there is no need to do so. The cookies come out perfectly soft and chewy when you follow the recipe as it is written. Chilling the dough is often recommended for sugar cookies, but this is a delicious exception to that rule.

Can I use any sprinkles?

Sprinkles come in many different shapes and colors so this is a very valid question. You can use any sprinkle of preference, but keeping the basic red, green and white “jimmies” sprinkles are what make this a great Christmas cookie recipe.

Christmas Sprinkle Cookies Ingredients

-1 cup butter room temperature

-1 cup granulated sugar

-2 eggs

-3 tsp vanilla

-2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

-2 tsp baking powder

-1/2 tsp salt

-1 cup red & green sprinkles

How to make these Christmas Sprinkle Cookies

Preheat your oven to 350°.

You can use a stand mixer or a hand mixer, but inside a bowl, cream together the butter and the sugar. Cream them for about two minutes or until they’re light and fluffy. Scraping down the sides of the bowl.

Add in the eggs and the vanilla and mix again until well combined.

Add in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix them until they’re fully incorporated. The dough will be sticky.

Pour your sprinkles into a bowl (or pie plate). Scoop the cookie dough out of the mixing bowl and place it in the sprinkles. Roll the dough around in the sprinkles until it is fully covered. Reshaped the dough into a ball before placing on a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet.

The cookies will spread quite a bit while baking, so I suggest limiting each cookie sheet to about eight cookies.

Bake at 350° for 10 minutes. Let them cool completely on the pan. The cookies will stay fresh in an airtight container for 2 to 3 days.

Christmas Sprinkle Cookies

Christmas Sprinkle Cookies are sugar Cookies rolled in Christmas sprinkles for a special holiday treat! Delightfully soft & chewy Christmas cookies made with festive holiday sprinkles!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Christmas Sprinkle Cookies

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Total Time 20

Servings

Calories 178kcal

Author Jessica & Nellie

Ingredients

1 cup butter room temp
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
3 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup red and green sprinkles

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350°.
Either using a stand mixer or a hand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar. Cream for about two minutes or until light and fluffy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Add in the eggs and vanilla and mix until well combined.
Add in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix until fully incorporated. The dough will be sticky.
Pour your sprinkles into a bowl. Scoop the cookie dough out of the mixing bowl and place it in the sprinkles. Roll the dough around in the sprinkles until it is fully covered. Reshaped the dough into a ball before placing on a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet.
The cookies will spread quite a bit while baking, so I suggest limiting each cookie sheet to about eight cookies.
Bake at 350° for 10 minutes. Cool completely on the pan. The cookies will stay fresh in an airtight container for 2 to 3 days.

Nutrition

Can you freeze sugar cookies with sprinkles?

Absolutely! One of the best things about Christmas cookies is that they can freeze so well. Not only can you freeze the cookies after they’ve cooled down and been transferred to an airtight container, but you can also take your ready-to-bake dough balls and freeze those as well.

How do you get the sprinkles to stick to the cookie dough?

Rolling the sticky dough ball around in the sprinkles should be enough to do the trick, but if you find that you’re having difficulty, it could be helpful to use your fingers to push the sprinkles into the dough to get a better grasp.

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With these Christmas Sprinkle Cookies, you are sure to have a tasty and winning festive Christmas cookie recipe that everyone will enjoy!

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