Easy Grinch Crinkle Cookies Decorated with Sprinkles
Start making Grinch Crinkle Cookies decorated with sprinkles and these soft chewy Grinch-y green cookies will become a family Christmas Baking tradition. Have this sweet cookie treat ready when you gather the family for a Grinch movie night.
Growing up watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas was a family tradition, that and Rudolph and A Charlie Brown Christmas. We never missed a year. The television stations only played each show once a Christmas season and there were no home movies.
As soon as we could get a copy we bought the shows so we could watch them more than once with the kids. It is just a tradition that we watch these ionic shows each year.
We are now obsessed with the new Disney Grinch movie which has all the charm of the original but is more beautiful and longer. Max the dog makes this version of the movie just like he did in the 1966 original.
How to Decorate Grinch Cookie
- The first and most important way to make a cookie Grinch is to use green food coloring to get that perfect green Grinch color.
- Trees hearts and stars are classic Grinch movie symbols.
- Green, red, white, lime green, and soft pink are classic Grinch colors.
- Sprinkles of any kind will work. Even if you need to use heart sprinkles from Valentine’s decorations, the green will make the cookie. I found these sprinkles at Sprinkles Pop
How to Make Cookies Grinch
- Make the dough by whisking the dry ingredients together.
- Cut in the softened butter.
- In a stand mixer or hand, mixer mix the flour mixture with the egg and melted butter/oil mixture.
- Add the vanilla and mint extract.
- Next, add the green food coloring to get the color that says Grinch to you.
- Form the dough into 1-inch balls.
- Place the sprinkles into a small bowl.
- Roll the top and sides of the cookie dough ball in the sprinkles.
- Place the cookies on parchment paper or a silicone mat on a cookie sheet.
- Slightly flatten the cookie and bake.
Easy Grinch Crinkle Cookies Decorated with Sprinkles
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 24 servings 1x
Description
Start making Grinch Crinkle Cookies decorated with sprinkles and these soft chewy Grinch-y green cookies will become a family Christmas Baking tradition. Have this sweet cookie treat ready when you gather the family for a Grinch movie night.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups of flour
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 cup softened butter
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs at room temperature
- 1/4 cup of melted butter and add oil to make 1/3 cup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon mint extract
- green food coloring
- sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- Cut into this mixture with a pastry cutter the 1/4 cup of softened butter.
- In a stand mixer or with a hand mixer, mix together the flour mixture with the eggs and the melted butter.
- Add the vanilla and mint extract.
- Add 10 drops of green food coloring or as many to get the color green you like.
- Add the sprinkles to a small bowl.
- Form the dough into about 1 inch balls, roll into the sprinkles. I only rolled the top and the sides.
- Place the cookies on parchment paper or a silicone baking pad. Only place 8 cookies on each baking sheet as the cookies spread during baking.
- Bake at 375° for 8 minutes.
