Birthday Cake Cookies
We loaded these Birthday Cake Cookies up with colorful sprinkles and white chocolate chips for a sweet birthday party treat! Above all, these soft, thick and chewy cookies have the vanilla and butter flavors just like birthday cake so they taste like a party for real!
Servings: 14 1/4 cup cookies
Calories:
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.
- ¾ cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- 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.
- In another bowl, 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 baking rack.
- For smaller cookies, use 1.5 or 2 tablespoon cookie scoops and bake for 10-12 minutes.
Notes
Add 1 teaspoon of Cake batter extract instead of vanilla to cookies if you want an extra boost of birthday cake flavor!