EASY, No Chill Sprinkle Cookies - two sugar bugs (2024)

FAQs

How do I get sprinkles to stay on sugar cookies? ›

Add sprinkles after baking

You can use frosting or an egg wash to get sprinkles to stick to baked cookies. Whichever method you use, start with cookies that have cooled completely. Top the cookies with frosting (homemade or purchased) that is soft but not too runny. (Sprinkles will not stick to dry, stiff frosting.)

The easiest thing to do is to brush the tops of the cookies with a little bit of water or milk, using just enough to dampen the cookie dough and no more. This will help the sprinkles stick and won't change the finished appearance of the cookie when you're done baking.

Sprinkles should be put in the cookie dough prior to baking. If you would like sprinkles on top of your sugar cookies too, then press them on with your finger tips before baking. This will ensure the sprinkles stick to the sugar cookies.

If you want to add sprinkles to cookies, cupcakes, breads, or cakes before baking, that is totally and completely ok. Add sprinkles to the tops of these baked goods right before they go into the oven. Adding sprinkles to “wet” batter is the only way to get them to stick without an additional “glue” like frosting.

Cookies spread because the fat in the cookie dough melts in the oven. If there isn't enough flour to hold that melted fat, the cookies will over-spread. Spoon and level that flour or, better yet, weigh your flour. If your cookies are still spreading, add an extra 2 Tablespoons of flour to the cookie dough.

Adding a painted watercolor effect to cookies is a great way to make beautiful, decorated cookies without using more royal icing! These Painted Sugar Cookies are a unique and fun cookie decorating idea that is easy for beginners and everyone in between.

DO THE SPRINKLES MELT IN THE OVEN? The sprinkles will melt slightly in the oven. When the cookies cool, the sprinkles firm back up, but will be adhered to the cookie.

Ensure that your sugar cookies are completely cool before decorating, or else the royal icing will simply melt off the cookies.

Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before decorating. I like to decorate cookies directly on baking sheets so I can stick the entire baking sheet in the refrigerator to help set the icing. So place the cooled cookies back on baking sheets.

Sprinkle colors does bleed into cake frosting. Once you add them to your cake, cupcakes, or cookies, it will be fine. However, as it sits, the sprinkles will start to bleed.

What kind of sprinkles do you use for cookies? ›

Since they're so crunchy, sugar pearls work best used sparingly to decorate cookies, cupcakes, cakes, and more. They can also be mixed with other types of sprinkles to create a unique sprinkle mix.

Do the sprinkles melt in the oven? The sprinkles may melt but only slightly since they are mixed into the dough and not on top of the dough.

Once the edges develop a golden hue, you've gone too far. While overcooked sugar cookies are certainly still palatable, they'll be hard and crunchy, instead of soft and chewy. → Follow this tip: Pull the cookie sheet from the oven as soon as they've set and gained some color, but not too much.

Add a Little Shine (or a Little Crunch!) One of my simplest sugar cookie tricks is to brush the surface of the cookie with a little egg wash.

Sprinkle the ball of dough with about 1 teaspoon of flour then use your hands to gently knead the dough into a smooth ball. You should only do this for about 10 seconds, as overkneading the dough will cause the butter to soften too much and will cause spreading.

But for chocolate chip cookies, you'd use baking soda because it allows the dough to spread, and you get thinner, crisp edges with a tender center.

Why This Works: Cornstarch binds with the liquids in your dough, so this makes your cookies spread less. It will also help them be soft and tender!

In some recipes, baking soda will increase the pH of the cookie dough, so much so that it might actually increase cookie spread by weakening the gluten network that helps hold the cookie dough together.

Erythritol is ideal as a substitute for powdered sugar for frosting or sprinkling on top of cakes. Swerve confectioners is a well-known brand based on erythritol and a very popular keto option. It's a 1:1 ratio as a replacement, so just use it as you would powdered sugar in any recipe.

How do you make sugar dusting? ›

In English, 'nonpareil' means "having no equal" or “a small flat disc of chocolate covered with sugar sprinkles." In French, it doesn't mean much of anything anymore.

Jimmies. These are the little rod-shaped sprinkles that you probably see most often, typically in rainbow colors or plain chocolate, and they are the best for baking. They hold up to being mixed into dough without bleeding and don't melt in the end result.

You can leave your sugar cookies out overnight to dry. In fact, it's recommended that you leave your iced sugar cookies out overnight to fully set.

However, there is a distinction between the two. In broad terms, frosting is thick and fluffy, and is used to coat the outside (and often the inner layers) of a cake. Icing is thinner and glossier than frosting, and can be used as a glaze or for detailed decorating.

If you've ever tried to frost a cutout cookie neatly and smoothly, you know that bakery-worthy results require more than just spreading on icing with a knife. The proper technique is called flooding, and it allows you to apply a smooth layer of icing to all or part of the cookie.

If you leave them out for too long, the cookies begin to harden or dry out. To prevent cookies from becoming stale, cover them with plastic wrap or keep in an airtight container.

Cover the Cookies Well

Step one to keeping cookies soft is to wrap them tightly with plastic wrap or store them at room temperature in an air tight container, preferably glass. Keep the air away! The less the cookies are out in the open, the better off they will be. So wrap them up!

How far in advance can you bake the cookies? I bake the cookies up to a week ahead of time and store them in an airtight container until ready for use. Can your cookies be frozen? Yes, they freeze well after baking.

What kind of sprinkles bleed? ›

Nonpareils are one of my favorite types of sprinkles for decorating baked goods, but these buggers roll all over the place. They also should not be used in/baked in recipes because their color bleeds A LOT!

The trick to adding sprinkles to the side of the cake is to scrape on extra frosting or clear piping gel making sure the cake is of course nice and firm from chilling. This gives you a fresh layer of frosting or gel for the sprinkles to completely stick to.

As they're bake stable, these little rainbow sprinkles can be added to cake mix or cookie dough before baking, and their colours won't bleed through the rest of your mix, so the colours will be as bright and sharp when you take them out of the oven as when you put them in.

Use milk to place sprinkles on the cookie before baking. Place your cookie shapes on a cookie sheet. Use a pastry brush to spread a small amount of milk across the cookie dough, then add sprinkles to the cookie before baking. You can add sprinkles randomly, or you can create a pattern.

In the Northeastern United States, sprinkles are often referred to as jimmies. "Jimmies", in this sense, are usually considered to be used as an ice cream topping, while sprinkles are for decorating baked goods, but the term can be used for both.

The good news is that an open jar of sprinkles, when stored in a cool, dry place can last up to a year, Summers says. An unopened jar of sprinkles will stay fresh for as long as three years.

Once your sugar cookie recipe is fully baked and decorated, properly store them “in a tin or an airtight container, once they're cool,” says Food52 community member Brette W.

For a standard box of cake mix, or any recipe that makes a two- or three-layer cake, combine 1/2 cup sprinkles with 1 Tbsp. flour. (The flour will coat the sprinkles so that the sprinkles float in your batter, rather than sink to the bottom.)

The trick to adding sprinkles to the side of the cake is to scrape on extra frosting or clear piping gel making sure the cake is of course nice and firm from chilling. This gives you a fresh layer of frosting or gel for the sprinkles to completely stick to.

Use a pastry brush dipped in light corn syrup and lightly brush the tops of the cookies with the corn syrup. Top with sprinkles and brush or shake off excess sprinkles that did not stick to the syrup.

How far in advance can you make decorated sugar cookies? ›

Although I've tested them for longer and the batches I've tried seem fine for up to 4 weeks, my general rule of thumb is up to 2 weeks. I know they're fine to eat at 4 weeks, but I feel better about giving the cookies away when the recipients don't need to eat them right away.

Once the sprinkles are properly formed, they're still very soft. To harden them up, they get a spray-coat of color, then a coat of sugar glaze to make them shiny and durable.

DO THE SPRINKLES MELT IN THE OVEN? The sprinkles will melt slightly in the oven. When the cookies cool, the sprinkles firm back up, but will be adhered to the cookie.

Jimmies will not bleed their color much, which makes them perfect for recipes like funfetti cake, sprinkle cookies, or birthday cake-flavored treats. In other words, they're great ON things (as decoration) and IN things (as they won't bleed their color). ARE JIMMIES SPRINKLES GLUTEN-FREE? They absolutely can be!

The sprinkles may melt but only slightly since they are mixed into the dough and not on top of the dough. How do you get sprinkles to stick to the cookies? Drizzle the cooled cookies with melted chocolate. The chocolate will act as a glue and help the sprinkles stick to the cookies.

The good news is that an open jar of sprinkles, when stored in a cool, dry place can last up to a year, Summers says. An unopened jar of sprinkles will stay fresh for as long as three years.