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Our homemade Sprinkle Cookies start with our soft and chewy sugar cookie dough! No rolling needed, these drop sugar cookies are beyond easy, packed with colorful sprinkles, and always delicious!
The only thing better than a soft, thick, buttery sugar cookie is edible sugar cookie dough.
But my husband disagrees. He’d rather have the baked cookie than just eat the dough with a spoon like some sort of heathen, so that’s where these sprinkle cookies come into play!
We made these sugar cookies with sprinkles, because the other day my daughter mentioned that her favorite flavor is sprinkles and I like her and her adorable dimple so I made her cookies that were her favorite flavor. <— aaaaand, breathe. Longest sentence ever.
If you were hoping to find sugar cookies that you could roll out, cut, and decorate, well…these aren’t it. These are drop sugar cookies, which means we take rich, buttery sugar cookie dough and we use a cookie scoop to just drop it right on the pan and bake. Easy peasy!
If you want cut out cookies, try my mama’s famous butter cookie recipe!
Expert Tips:
Ingredients: The ingredients here are fairly simple, which means that it’s nice to use a good quality. A good butter and vanilla will really shine in this recipe.
Mixing: Make sure your butter is at room temperature and beat it with the sugar until it’s light and fluffy. This will take 3-5 minutes, probably longer than you’d expect!
Baking: Bake these just until the edges are turning color and the tops still look a wee little bit underdone. They’ll finish baking on the hot cookie sheet and turn out perfectly.
Storage: These will last for about 5 days in your cookie jar. Just keep them sealed for the best results.
Confetti Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cup butter room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes with a stand mixer. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until very well combined.
- In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and sprinkles. Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until combined and the dough comes together.
- Use a cookie scoop to drop balls of dough on the prepared baking sheet, about 1-inch apart. Bake for 11 minutes or until edges are turning golden and tops are just slightly underdone looking.
- Cool for 10 minutes on the cookie sheet before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
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Ingredient Notes:
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Dry Ingredients – You’ll need the usual dry cookie dough ingredients including sugar, all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt.
Wet Ingredients – For the other cookie dough ingredients you’ll need room temp butter, eggs, and some vanilla extract!
Sprinkles – I’m using rainbow sprinkles or jimmies in these homemade sprinkle cookies but you can use pretty much any kind of sprinkle or decoration you’d like.
What We Love About This Sprinkle Sugar COOKIES Recipe:
- Easy: Quick, easy, no chilling or rolling the dough! That’s the kind of easy cookie recipe that anyone can prepare and enjoy in no time at all.
- Texture: These cookies are super soft and might look as if they are a bit underdone. Trust me, that’s okay. You’ll love the soft chewy texture of these soft sprinkle cookies!
My Favorite Cookie Scoop!
We use cookie scoops for everything from baking cookies to scooping meatballs to easily filling muffin tins.
How To Make Sugar Cookies With Sprinkles:
Cookie Dough: A stand mixer will make this easier, but you can mix by hand if necessary. Beat together the butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy, about 3 minutes in a stand mixer. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until very well combined.
Combine: In a separate bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sprinkles. Now start gradually adding the flour mixture to the butter mixture. Mix those together until combined and a dough forms.
Scoop: If you’ve got a cookie scoop it’s going to make this easier, but you can use a spoon too. Scoop balls of the dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet, about 1″ apart.
Bake: The sprinkle sugar cookies will take about 11 minutes to bake at 350 degrees or until the edges are turning golden and the tops are just slightly underdone. They’ll finish up perfectly as they cool on the cookie sheet for 10 minutes.
What Are Drop Sugar Cookies?
They’re easy, that’s what! A lot of sugar cookie recipes require chilling the dough before rolling it out and cutting out shapes. Tasty and cute, but that’s not what drop sugar cookies are!
You’ll just scoop up a ball of the dough with a cookie scoop or a spoon and drop it on the baking sheet, just like the way you’d make our perfect chocolate chip cookies or our peanut butter banana cookies. It’s quick, easy, and it makes for super soft and chewy sugar cookies!
That’ll save you time and have you snacking on these treats in no time.
FAQ’s:
You can keep these sugar cookies with sprinkles stored in an airtight container for about 5 days.
Nope! This recipe is super easy, no chilling or rolling the dough. You can prepare these sugar cookies in under 30 minutes.
MORE HOMEMADE COOKIE RECIPES!
- White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
- Ranger Cookies
- Cool Whip Cookies
- Texas Sheet Cake Cookies
- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Rolo Cookies
- Graham Cracker Cookies
This recipe was originally published in 2014. It was updated with new photos in 2024. Original photos below:
Thalia @ butter and brioche says
these cookies look delicious! loving all the confetti/sprinkles going on.. craving a bite of one right now!
Carol at Wild Goose Tea says
There is something about rolling out cookie dough and me that do not go hand in hand. I will avoid the recipe. So hence my kids never got home made Xmas bells and stars. So I was more than pleasantly surprised to find this a DROP cookie. YES !!!!! Thank you!!!!!
Ordinary Blogger says
My son and I have matching dimples!! Great post, lovely pix! Thanks for sharing.
Jamie | Jamie's Recipes says
Her favorite flavor is sprinkles –she is adorable!
These look wonderful!
Karly says
@Jamie | Jamie’s Recipes,
I have to agree…she is pretty adorable. 🙂 Thank you!
Angelyn @ Everyday Desserts says
ok, well. these look perfect, so I’d really like a cookie now.
Cathy Perez says
Sugar cookies are one of my favorites, with sprinkles puts them over the top for me! Pinned!
Tanya Schroeder says
You don’t have to tell me twice to turn on my Oh-ven! I need me some sugar cookies!! These really are heavenly.
Jessica @ A Kitchen Addiction says
Cookies with loads of sprinkles are the best!
marcie says
These are some of the prettiest cookies to come out of an oh-ven! 🙂 Pinning.
Jocelyn @BruCrew Life says
Baked sprinkle cookies that taste like cookie dough…I definitely need these cute cookies in my life!!!
Kelly @ Trial and Eater says
Baked cookies that still taste like cookie dough?! I think you’re my hero.
Michelle @My California Kitchen says
Yes! I can’t wait to try these; I live for raw cookie dough!
Karly says
@Michelle @My California Kitchen,
Me too!
Emily says
Add the sprinkles always makes a cookie taste better!
Melanie @ Carmel Moments says
Bet my kids would love these for the first day after school treat! Fun stuff.
Have an awesome Monday Karly!
Taylor @ Food Faith Fitness says
1. Confetti ANYTHING is my life.
2. I have been known to eat Pillsbury rolls of cookie dough….without baking.
3. Since they don’t require chilling, I can go eat them ALL right now.
I hate you and love you for that 😉 Pinned!
Karly says
@Taylor @ Food Faith Fitness,
I used to regularly buy the rolls of dough just for eating. The little break and bake ones are good for that too. 😉