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These Thin Sugar Cookies are full of sugar cookie flavor – and sprinkles! These are like homemade refrigerator cookies – and better because YOU made them. They are perfect with ice cream…or just because you want sugar cookies!
If you follow me on Instagram you’ll know that my daughter has her own sense of style.
It’s unique to her and although she often talks about how some of her friends “always look perfect“, her style never changes from it’s crazy ways. Pants with skirts, patterns with stripes, sparkles on sparkles – I never quite know what to expect when she comes downstairs for school in the morning.
Last week, she wore this outfit. I normally don’t interject with her clothing choices (unless it’s white leggings as pants) but when she came downstairs that day, I was torn. Self-expression is one thing…begging to be teased is another. So I mentioned that, while her outfit was cool and very her, that some of the kids at school might say something to her, and that I didn’t want her to feel bad. Her response?
“It’s okay mom. I don’t care if people make fun of me, I know I look crazy and I love it.”
I have never felt that way in my entire life, from birth to now. Even today, I change clothes 27 times so that I don’t look fat or colors match properly.
In that moment with Jordan and her crazier-than-crazy outfit and her amazing outlook on life, I realized that she is my hero. I want to be more like her. I wish I had the confidence to take more risks and say/do what I feel. Wouldn’t that be so freeing?
When I take risks, I take them in the kitchen. To me, a risk is trying to come up with a sugar cookie recipe on the fly – and hoping it turns out.
That’s what I did for these sugar cookies. I was in a development sort of mood…so I made it up as I went along. I’ve made my own peanut butter cookies and my own chocolate chip cookies and even my own brownies. I am always nervous when I try new recipes, because if they don’t work out, it’s money down the drain and wasted food. When these first came out of the oven, my heart sank. I like puffy cookies. Chewy, thick ones with lots of oomph. These were thin…so I thought they were a failure.
And then I tasted them.
These sugar cookies are super sweet and super delicious.
They’re crispy around the edges and soft in the middle, even if they’re thin. I like my cookies soft and almost raw, but if you cook them for a few extra minutes, I bet they’d get crunchy if you like them that way. These cookies actually remind me of the refrigerator cookies you buy at the store – only better because they are homemade!
I love sprinkles in sugar cookies. I think they add a perfect amount of crunch and a prettiness to cookies that might look dull otherwise. Plus, if they have sprinkles, they don’t need frosting, which means I can eat them sooner. Sprinkles make me happy.
Plus, if a cookie is a thin sugar cookie…you can eat more of them. These are the perfect side dish to a bowl of ice cream! (I’m not the only one that does that, right? Eat a side of dessert with my dessert?)
We had company over the day I made these sugar cookies and they went like hotcakes – everyone raved about them. So I guess even though I thought I failed…I didn’t.
I guess I should take a lesson from Jordan: try. Be confident. Flaunt what you love. If you love yourself, and the way you look…the rest of the world won’t care. And if they do…it doesn’t matter!
But I still want you to like these cookies. I do care about that!
You will like them. I promise!
Thin Sugar Cookies with Sprinkles
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter , softened (1/2 cup)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla (I used vanilla bean paste, but extract is fine)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup rainbow jimmies
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or a silpat.
- Cream butter and sugar in an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat in egg and vanilla. Add baking soda and flour and beat until the dough just comes together. Stir in sprinkles. Chill dough for at least 30 minutes.
- Scoop uniform sized balls of dough onto your cookie sheets. These cookies spread, so space them at least 2 inches apart. Bake about 8-10 minutes, rotating pans halfway through baking. Remove from oven just before they begin to brown (or, if you like them crunchy, you can cook them an extra minute). Cool 5 minutes before removing from cookie sheet.
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I’m exactly the same about changing a million times to make sure I look OK and don’t get looked at!! That is so wonderful that your daughter doesn’t care, I so wish I was more like that! I’ve got a bit better over the years, but it’s still sometimes a struggle! I definitely need to take your daughter’s advice and not care what people say/think! And as for risks, I’m with you there on coming up with things in the kitchen, these look great and I bought a huge jar of rainbow jimmies recently so now I have something to make with them! 🙂
Thanks Annie! I’ve definitely gotten better, but it’s so hard not to care! 🙂 Enjoy those sprinkles, they are my fav!
Jordan is awesome, and I am so glad you’re proud of her and her crazy sense of style! Plus, I am reeeeally hoping she’ll stick to the crazy outfits instead of the Abercrombie and stuff A) because your budget will thank you, and B) because I want to go shopping with her! She’s my fellow cartoon character-dresser and I love it!!
I also superrrr love these cookies. If they’re crispy AND chewy, I’m in. And of course, if they’re loaded with butter and sugar and sprinkles 🙂
YES! She would die to go shopping with you. 🙂 Thanks Hayley!
Wow.. That is one smart and inspirational kid you have there. She’s what? 8? And she figured out something that took me about 20 years to figure out. I freaking like that attitude and I would be insanely proud if that were my daughter. Good job, mom!
The way your daughter inspired you really shined through in these cookies. They look so good and unique for sugar cookies. They seem inanely simple too. Next time I need a sugar fix I know what I’m going to do! Thanks!!
Thanks so much! I don’t know where she got it, because it’s not from me, lol! 🙂
Love a thin and chewy cookie!
Thanks Kelly!
They turned out great! I hear you with the recipe development. I’ve been having some failures lately but still enough success that I am still plugging along. 🙂
It’s so hard to stick with it!!! 🙂 Thanks Tonia!
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