I have several “go-to” base cookie recipes in my archives. From those base cookie recipes, you have the luxury of creating many spin-off cookies using the same dough. For example:
My chocolate chip cookies recipe is perfect for different add-ins. My peanut butter cookies recipe is wonderful plain or with chocolate chips! My cutout sugar cookies recipe is the inspiration for chocolate sugar cookies. And my salted caramel dark chocolate cookies recipe recently won a Nestle baking contest.
And now we have a basic drop style sprinkle sugar cookie recipe!
How to Make Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
The ingredients are simple. You need baking soda and cream of tartar to lift these cookies. Cream of tartar is a “power ingredient” in snickerdoodles, too. If cream of tartar is unavailable, try them with baking powder instead. To do so, follow my drop sugar cookies recipe. The recipe makes a small batch and can easily be doubled for a large family, get together, or party. You’ll bake about 15 decent sized cookies from 1 batch. Just enough to place in your cookie jar. There’s room for a ton of sprinkles. The dough is thick enough to hold a fair amount of the good stuff. In my recipe testing, I found that sugar cookie dough can be overly greasy, making it hard to incorporate sprinkles. Not these – they’re the perfect soft pillow for a magnitude of sprinkles. I am quite certain that nothing compares to sinking your teeth into a soft, chewy sugar cookie. The cookies are so tender, they will melt in your mouth. See more sprinkle recipes. See more cookie recipes.
