Christmas Confetti Cookies
These eggless confetti cookies recipe is a must have one because of its simplicity and versatility. Use your imagination to use different colors of sprinkles to make it perfect for the occasion that you are celebrating.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- ¾ cup granulated white sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract/almond extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ to ¾ cup sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C for 15 minutes.
- Cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl. Add in the vanilla extract; beat well.
- Keep a sieve over the bowl and directly sift the flour, baking soda and salt into the creamed butter mixture.
- Mix the flour into the creamed butter mixture and stir it until well combined. Now add the sprinkles that you are using. I used ¼ cup each of red and green sprinkles. You might also use your hand to bring all the dough together to make one ball of dough. Sometimes the cookie dough might have a sticky consistency. In such cases chill the dough in the refrigerator for an hour or so before baking otherwise you will have thin crepe-like cookies.
- Scoop out about half to a tablespoonful of dough for each cookie, roll it on a plate with sprinkles, lightly flatten it, and place it on the baking sheet 2 inches apart. Bake for about 8-10 minutes or until the edges are browned lightly.
- Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and let it cool on a wire rack for about 10 minutes for it to set completely. Then transfer the cookies from the sheet to the wire rack for it to cool completely before you can store it in an air-tight container.
Notes
- I use either vanilla extract or almond extract and both gives the cookies a pleasant flavor but my personal favorite is using almond extract. Make sure not to use almond extract if sharing the cookies with people with severe nut allergies.
- Like I always suggest, please do a test bake at least 2-3 cookies before baking the entire batch so that you will know how much it spreads, if your baking time is less or more etc. This time by the feel of the dough I was able to guess that the cookies won't spread too much but test baked 3 cookies anyhow just to be sure and it baked just perfectly. So proceeded with the remaining dough without having to chill the confetti cookie dough in the refrigerator.
- Few cookies I baked without rolling the dough balls in the sprinkles and the rest I baked after rolling the individual cookie dough ball into the red and green sprinkles which really gives a more festive look to the cookies. It's your choice. These confetti cookies are delicious either way. Just one looks more beautiful than the other and one has more sugar content than the other because of rolling the dough in extra sprinkles.
Nutrition
Calories: 96kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 47mg | Potassium: 9mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 158IU | Vitamin D: 0.1µg | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 0.3mg
