If cuter cookies exist, I haven’t made them yet! If you love all things donut and sprinkles, these are the cut-out sugar cookie donut cookies for you! Please, don’t be intimidated by cut out cookies, this is a great recipe to start with because it only has a few ingredients, and the dough is very easy to work with. The hardest part of this recipe is separating the icing into 3 bowls to dye it different colors, but you can make donut cookies all the same color to make it more simple. This sugar cookie dough is my go-to, and I love it so much because it doesn’t require any chilling time in the fridge. Just make the dough, roll out, cut out and bake! The dough uses just the egg yolks, but we will use the leftover egg whites in the frosting, so do not worry about leftovers. You can technically decorate these donut cookies any way you like with any color frosting or any type of sprinkles. Christmas donut cookies would be so cute with red and green sprinkles. Valentine’s Day donut cookies in all pink, white and red is my next project! Rolling and cutting out cookie dough is obviously more work than a simple drop-and-bake cookies, but the effort is always worth it. These cookies are so adorable that I often use them for party favors after a kids’ birthday party.
The Ingredients
Flour. Regular all-purpose flour, not cake flour or pastry flour for these cut out sugar cookies. You will need 1.5 cups for the dough, plus extra for dusting the counter so that the cookies don’t stick during the cutting process. Baking Powder. Butter. One-half cup of unsalted butter is 8 tablespoons/ 1 stick/ 4 ounces. Sugar. Regular granulated white sugar. Eggs. We need 2 whole eggs for this recipe; we will use the egg yolks only in the dough, and the egg whites for the frosting. The egg white in the frosting is what helps these cookies dry after being decorated. You can stack these cookies after being decorated because the frosting dries semi-hard! Vanilla. A small amount of vanilla extract makes the donut cookies sweet and fragrant. Powdered Sugar. We need powdered sugar, also called confectioner’s sugar for the frosting. Lemon. The smallest amount of fresh lemon juice to flavor the icing. Food Coloring. The color of frosting on your donut cookies is entirely your choice. I give instructions for a plain white, bright pink and chocolate brown frosting. Sprinkles. Classic rainbow sprinkles match the donuts from the donut shop, but you can use whatever sprinkles you have.
How to Make Donut Cookies
Move the frostings to a piping bag or piping bottle fitted with a fine tip. Pipe a wavy outline on each cookie, flood the rest, and decorate with sprinkles. Let these cookies dry and then serve.
Other Cut-Out Cookies Recipes:
Gingerbread Cut-Out Cookies Chocolate Chip Cut-Out Cookies Raspberry Pie Cookies
