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Funfetti Cookies

April 29, 2014 by The Simple, Sweet Life 17 Comments

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Funfetti cookies with vanilla glaze

I may be a kid at heart, and I’ll admit, there are few flavors I love more than Funfetti. You know what flavor cake I had for my birthday this year? Funfetti. Year before that? Funfetti. You’re probably starting to see a pattern here. But why should cake have all the fun? What about cookies?

Funfetti Cookies with a Vanilla Cream Glaze
Makes about 2 dozen cookies

For the cookies:
2 sticks (226 grams) butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. almond extract
1 egg
2 cups all purpose flour
Brightly colored sprinkles

For the glaze:
2 cup powdered sugar
6 tbsp. heavy cream or whole milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Start by creaming your butter in a large bowl until smooth (the dough needs to chill for about an hour so we’ll hold off starting the oven just yet). Add the granulated sugar and mix until grainy clumps form. Add everything but the flour, and mix until all of the ingredients are combined, and there are no longer any clumps. In one cup increments, add your flour, mixing between each new addition untilย just combined. Throw in some sprinkles, and mix one last time until the sprinkles are more or less evenly distributed. Remove the dough from the bowl, gently roll it out into a log shape, and wrap it in plastic wrap. Allow it to firm up for about an hour in the refrigerator.

Chilling sugar cookies

Once the dough is firm, you can remove it from the refrigerator, unroll it, and cut it up to bake (at 350* fahrenheit or 175* celsius). Although you can cut it up with a knife, I recommend using thread. Believe it or not, it’s very easy to cut it with thread, and it preserves that round shape (unlike a knife that would squish it down on two sides). To cut it with thread, simply work your thread under the cookie log, bring the thread up around the sides crossing at the top, and keep pulling until it cuts through the dough. Bake the cookie slices for about 8-10 minutes, or until no longer shiny on top.

sliced sugar cookies

baked funfetti cookies

While your cookies cool, you can whip up your glaze! To make the glaze stir all of your glaze ingredients together in a small bowl until you’ve worked all of the powdered sugar clumps out. Dip each cookie into your glaze, and set aside on wax or parchment paper until the glaze is hard (about 2-3 hours).

funfetti cookies and glaze

Make sure you allow the glaze to completely harden before packaging your cookies.

funfetti cookies

funfetti cookies

Happy baking!

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Comments

  1. Sue says

    April 30, 2014 at 4:04 am

    They look like fun to me! Delicious too ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      April 30, 2014 at 9:48 am

      Thank you! I’m enjoying them, although I’ve probably eaten way too many at this point! ๐Ÿ˜›

      Reply
  2. Megan - The Emotional Baker says

    April 30, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    These cookies are so adorable! Hope to try them soon ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      April 30, 2014 at 4:12 pm

      I’m so glad you enjoyed the post and I hope you enjoy the cookies just as much! ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  3. Laura@Baking In Pyjamas says

    May 2, 2014 at 1:27 pm

    Visting from The Weekend Re-Treat. How pretty, I love funfetti but have only make one thing funfetti themed. It needs to change!

    Reply
    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      May 2, 2014 at 9:06 pm

      I’m so glad you stopped by! You’ll definitely have to let me know what you think if you try them! ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  4. JessicaJ says

    May 3, 2014 at 3:00 pm

    These are so pretty, they look delicious! Found you over on Foodie Friday ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      May 3, 2014 at 11:19 pm

      Thank you! So glad you could stop by! ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  5. selena@howaboutcookie says

    May 3, 2014 at 6:52 am

    I love this! Found you through kitchenfunwithmy3sons’ linkup. Will definitely stop by often!

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    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      May 3, 2014 at 10:09 am

      I’m so glad you stopped by! ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  6. Cris says

    May 4, 2014 at 11:23 am

    These cookies looks so cute..and I bet they`re super tasty ๐Ÿ˜ก

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    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      May 4, 2014 at 4:41 pm

      Thank you! ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  7. Cheryl says

    May 6, 2014 at 5:03 am

    Iโ€™d love it if you would share your recipe on this weekโ€™s The Yuck Stops Here link party, a linkup of delicious recipes that starts tomorrow (Tuesday, May 6th) and ends Sunday evening at 8pm ET! You can find us at http://mommasangelbaby.com/the-yuck-stops-here-5/. Hope to see you there! HUGS

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    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      May 6, 2014 at 6:48 am

      Thanks for the invitation! I’ll try to stop by later today. ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  8. Jessica says

    June 16, 2014 at 9:26 pm

    Such a sweet + pretty idea. I’ll have to try these, thanks for sharing! ๐Ÿ™‚

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    • The Simple, Sweet Life says

      June 26, 2014 at 3:43 am

      I’m happy to share them! Hope you like the recipe! ๐Ÿ™‚

      Reply
  9. EL ร‡itra Kale says

    January 22, 2018 at 3:28 am

    This looks fun cookies to make with my kid..she would be happy ๐Ÿ™‚ bookmarked your recipe to make this soon thx for sharing

    Reply

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