Mint Sprinkle Cookies

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A wee little leprechaun asked for something sweet on St. Patrick’s Day and these Mint Sprinkle Cookies have a surprise green center that makes these tasty sugar cookies extra delicious to eat and perfect a fun and festive celebration.

Just take a bite to find the surprise inside of these cookies!

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Who doesn’t like a cookie covered in sprinkles?  Actually, anything with sprinkles calls my name, donuts, cupcakes, candies I always pick the ones with the colorful toppings. These sweet little butter cookies have something besides the sprinkles on top of the cookie, take one bite to find a surprise middle layer of mint cookie.  Hey, how did that get in there?

The best part about these Surprise Inside Sprinkle Cookies is that you can change the colors of the sprinkles on the outside and make the surprise middle layer different colors and flavors. I have a bit of an obsession with these cookies and have made seven different flavors to celebrate the holidays. There are even cookies to celebrate baseball opening day which should be a major holiday in my opinion. 

Red Velvet Sprinkle Cookies for you Valentine

Raspberry Sprinkle Cookies that are perfect to put in an Easter basket

Red, White and Blue Sprinkles Cookies to eat while watching fireworks

Orange and  Black Sprinkle Cookies in honor of our beloved San Francisco Giants

Halloween Sprinkle Cookies for the ghosts and goblins

Christmas Sprinkle Cookies for Santa.

In honor of St. Patrick and my husband’s family the “Cassidy’s” I am baking our favorite cookie that is decked out in the prettiest green and white nonpareil sprinkles.  If you are not familiar with nonpareils they are just little round balls made from sugar and starch.  I find the nonpareils work better than the jimmie type sprinkles, and they keep their color during baking.      

For this recipe, you will need to buy green nonpareils and white nonpareils separately and mix them. It is hard to find the white and green together so I mix them.  You need to have enough sprinkles to roll the cookies in, so buying a bottle of each color will be enough.  And, you don’t have to mix the colors you can make them all white and all green. 

 

You will also need mint extract to flavor the surprise middle layer and green food color to tint the dough.  

Ready, let’s bake cookies! 

Ingredients

• Butter
• Shortening
• Sugar
• Baking powder
• Salt
• Eggs
• Powdered sugar
• Vanilla
• AP Flour
• Mint flavoring
• Green food color
• Green and White nonpareil sprinkles

How to Make the Cookie Dough

Step 1. Add the softened butter and shortening to a stand mixer bowl and mix together, then add the sugar, baking, and salt. You can also make the dough with a handheld mixer, but you may have to finish the mixing with a wooden spoon. 

Step 2. Mix in the egg and the egg yolks on medium speed until combined.

Step 3. Mix in the flour until a soft dough forms.

Step 4. After you make the batter,  measure out ¾ cup of the batter and tint it green with food coloring and add mint flavoring.  This dough will be the surprise middle layer.

How to Roll the Dough Balls

Step 5. Put the sprinkles in a large bowl that is big enough to roll the cookie dough balls around.

Step 6.  Measure out 1 tablespoon of the plain dough and roll into balls. You should get 25. Then measure out the mint dough with a teaspoon to get 25 balls.

Step 7. Flatten a large ball in your hand then put the green/mint ball inside the flattened dough and then fold up the dough and roll back into a ball.  Here is an important part of making these cookies.  You have to roll that just-made ball into the sprinkles immediately while the butter in the dough is a bit soft, this way the sprinkles will stick to the cookie dough ball.  Make sense?

Step 8. It’s now time to bake the cookies. Heat your oven to 375 degrees F. and bake for 10 minutes.

Just checking, but do you have sprinkles all over your floor and countertop?  There is just no stopping these little round balls from going everywhere.

Tips for making these mint cookies

• Have plenty of sprinkles to roll the dough balls in.
• Roll the dough balls in the palm of your hands to warm the dough, this way the sprinkles will stick better.
• If the dough is to soft to roll you can add just a bit more flour, like a ⅛ cup. Or you can chill the dough for 10 to 15 minutes just to firm it up before rolling it into balls. I rarely have too soft of dough except when it’s blazing hot here.
• These cookies freeze well. After the cookies are baked and cooled place them in a freezer contain for one month.

If you are planning on an Irish Tea Party don’t forget the tea. Harney & Sons Irish Breakfast Tea is my favorite. Add a Belleek Irish Blessing Cookie Plate and Belleek Cups and Saucers to your table.

A delicious cookie for an Irish Afternoon Tea

The tea is ready and the cookies are baked for our afternoon tea and perfect for a St. Patrick’s Day dessert.

 

I will leave you with one of my favorite blessing ~

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About Jere’

From learning to cook on a farm in Indiana to culinary school in California, my passion for food is never-ending.  Turning on my oven to bake something for friends and family is my happy place, and I am glad to be here at One Hot Oven sharing both sweet and savory recipes with all my baking friends.