Opening Day for our favorite baseball team, the San Francisco Giants, is an event to be celebrated. Unfortunately, we will have to celebrate at home instead of the ballpark because some people have to work and some have to attend class. That’s right, no skipping class on opening day, although skipping work is an option. Since we are stuck at home, we are making our favorite Orange and Black Surprise Inside Cookies for Opening Day and celebrating in front of the TV.
Surprise Inside Cookies for Game Day
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Yes, I know, most people would make popcorn or have hot dogs and a beer, but we make orange and black cookies and drink lemonade—a ballpark tradition.
If you haven’t been to AT&T Park (now Oracle Park), it is a beautiful stadium and sits on the San Francisco Bay. When you enter the stadium, you walk by the magnificent statue of Willie Mays, and once inside, you can see the bay, the Oakland Bay Bridge, the world’s most oversized baseball glove, and a giant Coca-Cola bottle that lights up. Make sure to walk along the McCovey Cove walkway for a San Francisco Giants history lesson. It is a great baseball experience.
At&T Park, a great baseball experience
The ingredients to make Surprise Inside Cookies ~
- Butter
- Shortening
- Flour
- Sugar
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Eggs
- Vanilla
- Almond Extract
- Powdered Sugar
- Cocoa Powder
- Nonpareil Sprinkles – Use your team colors
Let’s get started on these cookies
First things first, you need orange and black nonpareil sprinkles. Or feel free to change up the colors here for your favorite team. I know I kinda went crazy making the SF Giants logo, but I like playing with sprinkles. For the best results use the nonpareils instead of the jimmie type sprinkles.
Sprinkles for the GIANTS!
Or if you are saner than me you can do it like this.
The game will be starting so let’s make cookies. There are several steps to making these Surprise Inside Cookies but I promise they are not at all hard. Do these steps and your cookies will be a home run!
- Make the basic cookie dough
- Tint and flavor part of the dough for the surprise middle layer
- Make the cookie dough balls
- Roll the ball in the nonpareil sprinkles
These homemade buttery sugar cookies hide a rich and tender chocolate middle layer that adds some fun and flavor to every bite.
How to roll out the cookies
To make these cookies roll out about 25 butter cookie dough balls and 25 chocolate cookie middle layer balls; press the butter cookie balls to flatten and place the chocolate dough inside. Now, roll the butter cookie dough around the chocolate dough. Next, and this is super duper important, roll the dough balls in the sprinkles right after you make the balls because they are warm and a bit sticky from rolling and the sprinkles will stick better.
Let’s walk through the recipe ~
Orange and Black Surprise Inside Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 egg
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups AP flour
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/4 tsp. almond extract
- 5 + ounces orange and black nonpariel sprinkles
Instructions
- In a large bowl mix the butter and shortening until fluffy. Add the sugar, baking powder and salt; mix until combined.
- Mix in the egg, egg yolks, and vanilla until combined, scraping sides of the bowl.
- Mix in the flour until combined, forming a soft dough.
- Remove 3/4 cup of the dough to a small bowl and add the sifted powdered sugar, cocoa powder and melted butter. Mix well to combine
- Add the 1/4 tsp. of almond extract to the remaining dough.
- Measure out 1 tablespoon of almond-flavored dough and make 25 balls with the dough. Next measure out 1 teaspoon of the chocolate dough and roll into 25 1″ balls.
- Flatten the almond flavored dough and place a chocolate dough ball in the center and mold the dough around it to make a round ball.
- Roll the ball in the nonpareil sprinkles and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 – 11 minutes at 375 degrees.
Notes
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Nutrition
The game is starting and the cookies are ready.
Orange and Black Sprinkle Cookies
For more baseball dessert inspiration, check out these delicious Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Caramel Frosting topped with Cracker Jack. They are the perfect treat for that 7th inning stretch.
I love sprinkles, and here are some other Surprise Inside Cookies for some colorful inspiration ~
Surprise Inside Easter Cookies
Firework Surprise Inside Cookies
Surprise Inside Halloween Cookies
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Go Team!
As a follow-up, we went to the Giants game the day after Opening Day to see them WIN! One of the best things during the games is making friends with people in the stands. The couple in front of us were passing around cookies that were really, really good. I asked the wife what they were, and she said she loves to cook and bake and follows Joy The Baker and made these Milk Chocolate Cookies and Cream Cookies.
Minutes later, a fly ball popped up, and her husband caught the ball!!! Fun and excitement in the stands that day.
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I love the surprise chocolate middle layer and using sprinkles, it will make the cookies colorful. Kids will surely love this. Thanks for sharing.
How fun are these! What an awesome tradition! And PS how long did it take you to make the symbol in the sprinkles?! Wow!
Hi there, it took about 10 minutes to make the logo for the Giants. Once I figured out how to corral the sprinkles it went quickly.
These are so fun! I am going to make them but switch the sprinkle colors. Thank you for this one!!!!!!
These cookies look so cute and delicious! Specially with that filling!! YUMM!!
That is so cute.. My kids would love these!! All kids would love these.I have to try this soon. Would love to see the expression on kids faces.
These cookies look so interesting. And reflect so much passion for the team.
These are so cute! Thanks for showing how to do a different color for the center so well. I see cookies like this and always wonder how to do that! I’m excited to try them out.
Wow! These are so cute! I’m in LA, so I suppose I could change the colors and the logo! 😉
Haha, we are watching the Giants vs. Dodger right now.
Can you believe I’ve never had a stuffed cookie? These look marvelous – a must-try!
What a fun way to celebrate opening day. Could be adapted for any team colors. Very creative!
That’s the beauty of these cookies, so many sprinkle colors to choose from.
Oh my gosh – how fun! I love these and they don’t look too hard at all. Pinning them now!
Thanks for the pin! These are easy to make.