Name: Birthday Cake Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Ingredients: ½ cup unsalted butter softened; ¼ cup brown sugar; ½ cup white sugar; 1 large egg; 2 teaspoons vanilla (or cake batter extract); 2 cups all-purpose flour (measure correctly); ½ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon baking powder; 1 cup sprinkles (plus more for tops of cookies if desired.); 3/4 cup white chocolate chips

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I hear it’s your birthday!? Woohooo! We’re gonna have a good time celebrating with these Birthday Cake Cookies! We loaded these funfetti cookies up with colorful sprinkles and white chocolate chips for a sweet birthday party dessert treat! It’s the perfect birthday cookie recipe!

Above all, these yummy soft, thick and chewy cookies have the vanilla and butter flavors just like birthday cake so they taste like a party for real! Like these Pink Crumbl Birthday Cake Cookies, also good for birthday fun!

Why We Love These Birthday Cake Cookies

Are you ready for the ultimate birthday treat that combines two beloved desserts into one? Say hello to birthday cake cookies! This birthday cake cookie recipe is definitely a must for all the birthday boys and girls, no matter the age!

You will get 14 large sized cookies in each batch. So, it’s easy to whip up a double batch or triple batch easily. Especially, if you are having a larger birthday celebration or party!

These cookies are perfectly balanced in the texture, flavor and thickness because of the ratio of ingredients used. All you need are basic ingredients like all-purpose flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, egg, unsalted butter, vanilla, baking powder and salt.

OH! And we cannot forget the sprinkles and white chocolate chips! We loaded them in this birthday cake cookie recipe!

Indeed, cookies made from scratch are the best! Especially when they have sprinkles!! Who wouldn’t want to have these as a personal gift to celebrate with their bestie or just because? 🙂

What is Birthday Cake Flavor?

Birthday cake flavoring is, is specifically vanilla-oriented. It Most likely derived from the popular Funfetti craze of rainbow jimmies or sprinkles added to white cake, thus birthday cake! However, there is Birthday cake flavoring you can also purchase online and use it in these cookies if you so choose, to give it that extra birthday kicked up flavor, but overall, you’re fine with vanilla!

About The Sprinkles!

Ever wonder what kind of sprinkles when you bake them in cookies? For birthday dessert cookies like these, use these types if little rod-shaped sprinkles or jimmies that you probably see most often, usually in rainbow or chocolate.

I suggest using rainbow jimmies in these cookies instead of nonpareils. Nonpareils tend to bleed into the batter, whereas rainbow jimmies won’t do that. They hold up the best to being mixed into dough without bleeding and don’t melt in the end result.

Ingredients You Need

Birthday Cake Cookies Recipe

unsalted butter, softened
brown sugar
white sugar
egg
vanilla extract or classic birthday cake flavor extract, or almond extract
all-purpose flour, measure correctly
salt
baking powder
sprinkles, rainbow jimmies
white chocolate chips

How to Make Birthday Cookies

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, using a stand mixer or hand mixer, cream together the softened butter and both sugars until fluffy for a couple of minutes.
Beat in the egg and vanilla, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
Whisk together the dry ingredients of flour, baking powder and salt until combined.
Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix together until combined. Add in the white chocolate chips and sprinkles. Do not over-mix, dough should be wet, yet crumbly looking.
Scoop dough balls out with ¼ cup cookie scoop.
Place scooped dough balls on parchment lined cookie sheet.
Bake cookies 2 inches apart for 15 minutes, 6 to 8 cookies per baking sheet. Do not overbake to keep them soft and chewy style. Do not overbake, cookies will continue baking on baking sheet.
Let cool 5 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack.
For smaller cookies, use 1.5 or 2 tablespoon cookie scoops and bake for 10-12 minutes.

How to Add Birthday Cake Flavor!

Add 1 teaspoon of Cake batter extract instead of vanilla extract to cookies if you want an extra boost of birthday cake flavor! You may love these Best Soft Lofthouse Cookies too!

You could also add a fun spin on these and pipe some delicious vanilla buttercream frosting or a cream cheese frosting and use a piping bag to frost the cookies, then add sprinkles on top!

Cookie Baking Tips

Happily, this birthday cookies recipe comes together easily and quickly, because you don’t have to chill the dough, so you can have a batch or 2 of cookies baked up in about 30 minutes time! It takes 5-10 minutes to make the cookies and bake the cookies for 15 minutes time. However you can chill the dough if you want to make the dough ahead of time. Bake the next day.

With this birthday cake cookie recipe, these cookies measure at 1/4 cup, so they bake up thick. It is preferred to use a large cookie scoop or ice cream scoop size for portioning out the cookies. That way you don’t have to roll the dough out with your hands or handle the dough as much. So much easier when it comes to making your cookie dough balls!

If you do chill the dough, scoop your cookie dough balls out after you make the dough and place them on a baking sheet or storage container until you are ready to bake your birthday dessert cookies.

How to Store Sprinkle Birthday Cookies

Room Temperature – Cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature up to a week.

How Long Can I Freeze Sugar Cookies?

Store your sugar cookies in the freezer for up to 3 months to keep them fresh. This goes for both plain and decorated cookies.

How Do I Defrost Frozen Sugar Cookies?

Keep the cookies in their container from the freeze and put the container in the fridge. This will help stop the cookies from getting wet.

Keep the cookies in the fridge for a couple of hours. Then move them to the counter and let them sit until they get to room temperature. This way they’ll thaw out slowly, helping to keep the decorations from running or smearing.

Once they have reached room temperature, you can eat and enjoy!

At the end of the day, these delicious, fluffy, and festive dessert Birthday Cake Cookies are all about celebrating moments – whether it’s a birthday or any other occasion.

Looking for ways to celebrate your birthday? Check out 35 Adult Birthday Party Ideas to Celebrate Another Year of Life, 30 Places to Go on Your Birthday & Fun Things to Do and 25 Simple Ways to Celebrate Someone’s Birthday!!

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Hope you give these party birthday cake cookies a try! Let’s party on!

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