These St Patrick's Day sugar cookies are crispy but still a little soft in the center, which makes them just perfect!
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I just can't pass up an opportunity to bake cookies. It's kind of my thing. With Saint Patty's day right around the corner, I bought a new Wilton shamrock cookie cutter and gave this St Patrick's Day sugar cookies recipe a try for the first time...and it came out fantastic! This is one of the easiest sugar cookie recipes you will ever try, and you are likely to have all of the ingredients already in your pantry - seriously, it only has five ingredients!
I whipped up a batch yesterday for Angeline and I to try out and we both loved them.
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Ingredients you need to make these St Patrick's Day Sugar Cookies
- 1 c. butter
- 1 c. sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 c. flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ tsp. salt
Directions for how to make this St Patrick's Day Sugar Cookies Recipe
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugar until creamy. Add your egg, flour, salt and baking powder and beat at low speed until you have a thick and crumbly dough.
Refrigerate your dough for 20 minutes and then place on a sheet of parchment paper. Sprinkle with flour and roll to about a ½ inch thickness using a rolling pin. Using your shamrock cookie cutter, cut out your shapes and sprinkle with green sprinkles. Using your finger tips, lightly press the sprinkles down into the cookie so that they adhere. I hate when the sprinkles fall off a sugar cookie when I take them out of the oven! Transfer to your cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for about 8 minutes, or until edges start to brown.
Once you remove from the oven, allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for about 5 minutes so that they harden up a but before removing them to a cooling rack.
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St Patrick's Day Sugar Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 c. butter
- 1 c. sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 c. flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ tsp. salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugar until creamy. Add your egg, flour, salt and baking powder and beat at low speed until you have a thick and crumbly dough.
- Refrigerate your dough for 20 minutes and then place on a sheet of parchment paper. Sprinkle with flour and roll to about a ½ inch thickness using a rolling pin.
- Using your shamrock cookie cutter, cut out your shapes and sprinkle with green sprinkles. Using your finger tips, lightly press the sprinkles down into the cookie so that they adhere.
- I hate when the sprinkles fall off a sugar cookie when I take them out of the oven!
- Transfer to your cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for about 8 minutes, or until edges start to brown.
- Once you remove from the oven, allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheet for about 5 minutes so that they harden up a but before removing them to a cooling rack
Andi C. says
The picture is so pretty, I want to go out and get the stuff to make them right now!!
LyndaS says
Those are cute!
Tammy says
Um yeah - those wouldn't last an afternoon in my home LOL!
Mellisa says
I think I will try and make up a batch of these for my birthday (which just so happens to be on ST. Patty's DAy! )
tamie says
Recipe sounds so easy and they look yummy!! Can I place an order??
April Golightly says
These are adorable and look yummy.
Crystal says
Those are super cute and so festive.
Jennifer says
ah Jenn these are too cute! I love simple (but delicious) cookies like this
Colleen says
They look store bought they look so good, my kids would LOVE them.
Theresa says
These look so good.
Shell Fruscione says
Those look crazy good! This is going on my to-do list 🙂
HilLesha says
That is really cute!
Maryann says
I love cookies too!
Lisa says
These look so good!
courtney says
oh my gosh yum! love the picture too!!
Kathleen says
Yum! Those look delicious and adorable all at once. St. Patrick's Day is one of my favorite holidays!
Stefani says
Those cookies remind me of the cookies I used to make with my Nana growing up. I want some now.
Lolo says
Love sugar cookies!!
Ty says
Those look so good!
Emily says
I love Sugar Cookies
theresa says
how much baking powder?
Jennifer Quillen says
1/2 a teaspoon