I 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.
These St Patrick's Day sugar cookies are crispy but still a little soft in the center, which makes them just perfect!
St Patrick's Day Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 c. butter
- 1 c. sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 c. flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ tsp. salt
Directions
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.
The picture is so pretty, I want to go out and get the stuff to make them right now!!
LyndaS
Those are cute!
Tammy
Um yeah - those wouldn't last an afternoon in my home LOL!
Mellisa
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
Recipe sounds so easy and they look yummy!! Can I place an order??
April Golightly
These are adorable and look yummy.
Crystal
Those are super cute and so festive.
Jennifer
ah Jenn these are too cute! I love simple (but delicious) cookies like this
Colleen
They look store bought they look so good, my kids would LOVE them.
Theresa
These look so good.
Shell Fruscione
Those look crazy good! This is going on my to-do list 🙂
HilLesha
That is really cute!
Maryann
I love cookies too!
Lisa
These look so good!
courtney
oh my gosh yum! love the picture too!!
Kathleen
Yum! Those look delicious and adorable all at once. St. Patrick's Day is one of my favorite holidays!
Stefani
Those cookies remind me of the cookies I used to make with my Nana growing up. I want some now.
Lolo
Love sugar cookies!!
Ty
Those look so good!
Emily
I love Sugar Cookies
theresa
how much baking powder?
Jennifer Quillen
1/2 a teaspoon