Description
Brightly colored and perfectly chewy cookies with a sweet cotton candy flavor, ideal for parties and fun baking days.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cotton candy flavoring
- Pink food coloring
- Blue food coloring
- Powdered sugar or flour for rolling
- 16 ounces white icing
- Sprinkles
- 1 teaspoon cotton candy extract (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt together and set aside.
- Beat butter and sugar until light and creamy, then add egg and flavoring.
- Gradually mix in dry ingredients until combined.
- Divide dough in half and color one pink and one blue.
- Roll each dough portion to 1/4-inch thickness.
- Layer dough sheets, press gently, and roll into a log.
- Slice into 1/4-inch rounds and place on baking sheets.
- Bake for 7 to 9 minutes without browning.
- Cool cookies completely before icing.
- Warm icing, add extract if desired, and pipe or drizzle over cookies.
- Add sprinkles and allow icing to dry fully.
Notes
- Use parchment paper between stacked cookies to protect icing.
- Allow icing to harden fully before storage.
- Nutrition values are approximate and may vary.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 7 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 239
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 182mg
- Fat: 11g
- Saturated Fat: 6g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0.3g
- Carbohydrates: 33g
- Fiber: 0.4g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 27mg