These cookies have been around forever and easier than the cut and bake because they're a drop-and-roll cookie.
I love the old-fashioned easy cookies as the day isn't taken up by cutting, rolling, and icing all day.
These sweet delicate yet crumbly butter sugar cookies are just perfect with a cup of afternoon tea and a great comfort cookie.
If you were looking for a bakery-quality tasting sugar cookie, then you're going to love these and of course, you can just add nothing to the dough and frost them if you prefer.
Scroll down to the recipe card to print off this basic recipe and adapt away with our suggestions below.
Easy Steps To Making Mini Fruit Pizza
- mix the dough
- refrigerator and hour
- dough using an ice cream scoop
- bake
- cool before removing from the pan
Ingredients You Will Need (scroll to the recipe card for exact measurements)
- sugar
- butter
- vanilla
- flour
- baking soda
- eggs
- vanilla
- oil
- cream of tarter
- powdered sugar
- optional frosting, coconut, see other suggestions in the recipe card, sprinkles, colorful sugars
Tips and Fruit Suggestions (use 1 cup of any)
- maraschino cherries
- use colorful nuts, craisins, dried fruits, colorful candied cherries for the holiday
- use canned frosting
- any packaged cookie mix works well but always use butter not margarine to prevent spreading
- I always refrigerate the dough and preheat the oven for perfect cookies
- be sure to cool the cookies before removing them from the cookie sheets
- use any flavored extract in this cookie you prefer
- other toppings can be use or frosting IE Nutella, Cookie Butters, Jams, Lemon Curd, etc.
- garnish: colored sugars or regular sugar
- tint the dough for a colorful change
- add funfetti to the dough that matches the holiday theme
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Other Cookie Love
Sugar cookies are a classic favorite and this is a simple pantry ingredient recipe.
I find these perfect for fussy guests as you can change the toppings and fruits much easier plus they can be made to fit the theme of your party or holiday.
You can also use other favorite cookie recipes that worked well and we have tried: Snickerdoodles, Shortbread Chocolate Chip Cookies, and also Chocolate Cake Mix Cookie dough any round cookies will work that are sturdy even prepackaged store-bought sugar cookies.
These delicious angel cookies can be frosted and decorated for Patriotic holidays like Memorial Day, the 4th of July, and Veterans Day using red, white, and blue fruits, or any colors like Christmas to match the holiday themes just by adding coordinating sprinkles, tinted cookie dough or even tinted frostings!
Funfetti Angel Sugar Cookies
Yield: 22
Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 11 MinTotal time: 21 Min
This is an easy drop sugar cookie, delicate and rich in buttery tasting deliciousness. The cookies are not like the cutout version and more crumbly.
Ingredients
- 4 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 eggs
- 2 sticks of butter room temperature ( do not use cold the dough needs to be evenly blended)
- 1 cup white sugar plus more for the top ( or use a coordinating color for the tops of a holiday theme)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup vegetable or canola oil
- 1 teaspoon cream of tarter
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract or other flavors like lemon, almond, orange anisette
Instructions
- Prepare a cookie sheet with either parchment paper or Silpat mat.
- Cream the butter and the sugars together until light and creamy for around 3 minutes ( must be evenly blended).
- Add the rest of the ingredients( flour slowly) getting everything smooth and the mixture is all one even color.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour or overnight. ( this keeps the dough from spreading out)
- Drop on a parchment-lined cookie sheet ( I use an ice cream scoop.
- Bake 9 to 11 minutes at 350 degrees.
- Don't overbake the cookies are crumbly.
- Cool completely before removing from the paper cookies are very fragile and crumbly.
Notes:
- maraschino cherries
- use colorful nuts, craisins, dried fruits, colorful candied cherries for the holiday
- use canned frosting in a pinch or make your own
- I always refrigerate the dough and preheat the oven for perfect cookies
- be sure to cool the cookies before removing them from the cookie sheets
- use any flavored extract cookie you prefer
- other toppings can be use or frosting IE Nutella, Cookie Butters, Jams, Lemon Curd, etc.
- garnish: colored sugars or regular sugar
- tint the dough for a colorful change
- add funfetti to the dough that matches the holiday theme
Nutrition Facts
Calories
154.43Fat (grams)
9.47Sat. Fat (grams)
5.47Carbs (grams)
17.04Fiber (grams)
0.64Net carbs
16.40Sugar (grams)
14.94Protein (grams)
1.08Sodium (milligrams)
229.49Cholesterol (grams)
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