These Sprinkle Butter Cookies taste just like Funfetti Butter Cookies — soft, buttery, and full of colorful rainbow sprinkles! Made with simple ingredients and a splash of evaporated milk, they bake up melt-in-your-mouth soft every time.
Sprinkled Butter Cookies That Melt In Your Mouth
Dreaming of my favorite Christmas sugar cookies in August led me to make these Sprinkled Butter Cookies, and oh my goodness — they’re sooooo good! This easy butter cookie recipe has a short and simple ingredients list, using butter as the star ingredient that keeps them soft, rich, and melt-in-your-mouth delicious.
The other key ingredient in these Sprinkled Butter Cookies is evaporated milk, which helps make them light, fluffy, and perfectly tender. Roll each cookie in your favorite colored sprinkles — red and green for Christmas, pink and white for Valentine’s Day, or rainbow for birthdays — for a festive touch. These homemade butter cookies with sprinkles are perfect for kithen counter snacking, holiday cookie trays, bake sales, or whenever you’re craving something buttery and sweet!
How to Make the Best Butter Cookies
Make the crumbly cookie dough by mixing butter, sugar, flour, baking powder, vanilla and evaporated milk together, using a hand mixer.
Pour sprinkles on a plate or a shallow bowl. I used rainbow sprinkles but you can use whatever color you want depending on the season or holiday!
Roll each cookie into a ball, and then roll in sprinkles so it’s completely covered.
Place cookies onto a baking sheet. I like to cover mine with silicone baking mats.
And then gently flatten each cookie with a back of a spoon.
Bake at 320 degrees (not a typo, we want to bake them at a low temperature for longer) for about 20 minutes. And out of the oven comes some beautiful Sprinkled Butter Cookies!
Can I freeze the cookie dough?
Absolutely! Make the dough as instructed and then you can either freeze as one large piece of dough, or roll and freeze smaller balls. After you defrost the dough, roll in sprinkles and bake as you would.
Hope you enjoy these Sprinkle Butter Cookies recipe!
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Sprinkled Butter Cookies (melt in your mouth)
PrintIngredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons evaporated milk
- Rainbow sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 320 degrees F. Prepare 2 baking sheets with nonstick spray or silicone baking mats.
- Cream butter and sugar together in large bowl with electric hand mixer. Add flour, baking powder, vanilla and evaporated milk. Continue to mix until crumbly.
- Roll dough into tablespoon sized balls and then roll around in sprinkles to completely coat. Continue to do this until all your dough is gone. Place cookies on prepared baking sheets.
- Very gently flatten each cookie with the back of a spoon.
- Bake for 17-20 minutes or until lightly golden brown on the bottom.
- Let cookies cool for 15 minutes before eating them all! 🙂
NIKI MICHELLE VUJAKLYA says
Can I freeze the baked cookie and defrost in a few weeks?
Pamela Reed says
Yes you can! When you’re ready to eat them simply let them sit at room temperature for a few hours. Enjoy!
Tiff Peterson says
These are one of my favorite cookies to make. They look so pretty at a cookie exchange table, or when using holiday-specific colored sprinkles. These freeze beautifully as dough to bake fresh: do all the steps including rolling the cookie dough in sprinkles and flattening slightly on a parchment lined pan. Place pan in the freezer for a few hours, then pop the dough balls into a large freezer ziploc bag. To bake, no thawing needed. Just place the dough balls on a pan while the oven preheats, may bake in the regular amount of time or may need to add a minute. I test them but a light tap on the top of a cookie, if it bounces back, the cookies are done…. thank you sooo much for this recipe!
Marissa says
These are the best butter cookies I made. They are so soft and buttery! My family eats them right away! Will make again.
Joan eggleston says
Very good especially with my cup of coffee
Mary says
These look really good. Any chance I can sub out 2% milk for the evaporated milk? If not, I’ll just wait until I can pick up some evaporated milk.
Kristen says
I don’t bake, and I made these! They came out pretty well! They taste like shortbread cookies.