Perfectly chewy, delicious and full of Christmas sprinkles. These Christmas Sprinkle Cookies are easy to make and always a hit with the kids, and adults! Full of festive Christmas color, these cookies are perfect for your Christmas cookie tray. Make sure to save some for Santa!
Everyone loves a simple, sprinkle cookie. I know I love making them! Red, green and white sprinkles look so pretty inside and on top of these delicious, chewy cookies. The sprinkles I used for these cookies is actually a mixture of three different types of sprinkles. I love mixing sprinkle mixes to create the perfect mix.
I have used my favorite cookie dough for this recipe. This all-purpose cookie dough is perfect by itself or work great for all types of add-ins. I use it for my White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies recipe as well as my Christmas Sandwich Cookies recipe.
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Tips For Making Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
- Using softened butter is important when making these cookies. The butter needs to be completely soft and at room temperature. This will allow for proper creaming of the butter and sugar. Which helps create the perfect spread and texture to this cookie dough.
- Do not overmix your cookie dough. Overmixing will create a tougher dough. Mix just until the flour is fully incorporated. To ensure that I do not overmix the cookie dough I like to add the sprinkles in when I add the dry ingredients.
- Chill the dough. The best texture comes from the dough being chilled for 1 hour, no less. This will allow the dough to spread, not too much and not too little. If the dough doesn’t chill long enough the cookies will spread more making super thin cookies. If the dough is chilled for too long the dough will not spread enough and make the cookies thicker, which makes them less chewy. With that being said, when chilled longer, the thicker cookies are still fantastic, I just prefer the texture they have when chilled for 1 hour.
- Do not overbake. Pull the cookies out of the oven when the middles look slightly under baked. They will continue to cook when they come out of the oven and be perfect by the time they are completely cooled.
How to Make Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
1.Dry ingredients: In a medium bowl mix together the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, salt and 2 tablespoons of sprinkles.
3. Incorporate wet ingredients: Mix in the egg and vanilla extract. Scraping the bowl as need. Mix until fully combined.
4. Incorporate dry ingredients: Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing just until combined.
5. Scoop: Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and scoop out the cookie dough using a 1.5-ounce portion scoop. Use two scoops per cookie. Place 2″ apart on lined baking sheet. Lightly press down to flatten.
6. Decorate: Sprinkle the remaining sprinkles over the tops of the cookies.
7. Chill: Place in the refrigerator and chill the cookie dough for 1 hour.
8. Bake: Preheat an oven to 350° F and bake the cookies for 14 minutes. Cool completely on cooling rack. Enjoy!
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Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
Perfectly chewy, delicious and full of Christmas sprinkles. These Christmas Sprinkle Cookies are easy to make and always a hit with the kids, and adults! Perfect for your Christmas cookie tray.
Ingredients
Instructions
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In a medium bowl mix together the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, salt and 2 tablespoons of sprinkles.
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In the bowl of a mixer cream together the butter and both sugars. Mix until creamy and lighter in color. This should take about 2 minutes.
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To the mixer, add in the egg and vanilla extract. Scraping the bowl as need. Mix until fully combined.
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Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing just until combined. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
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Scoop out the cookie dough using a 1.5-ounce portion scoop. Use two scoops per cookie. Place 2" apart on lined baking sheet. Lightly press down to flatten. Sprinkle with the remaining sprinkles. More if you like!
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Place in the refrigerator and chill the cookie dough for 1 hour.
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Preheat an oven to 350° F and bake the cookies for 14 minutes. Cool completely on cooling rack. Enjoy!
