These sweet and simple drop sugar cookies are bright, colorful, delicious, and take less than an hour to make the whole batch! This recipe is delightfully easy to make, with no needing or rolling required. Just mix up your dough, form your cookie balls and finish them with our secret effortless ingredient to get that sparkling color; sugar and gelatin mix. This go-to basic drop sugar cookie recipe makes about 48 cookies, perfect for whenever you want to quickly make a large batch of delicious and festive cookies.
Stir and Drop Sugar Cookies
- Prep Time 40 min
- Total 40 min
- Servings 48
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- Additional sugar, if desired
- Red and green fruit-flavored gelatins, if desired
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400°F. In large bowl, mix 3/4 cup sugar, the oil, baking powder, vanilla, salt and eggs with spoon. Stir in flour.
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Step2Drop dough by teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Press bottom of glass onto dough to grease, then dip into additional sugar; press on balls until 1/4-inch thickness. Dip bottom of glass onto a wet paper towel, then dip into dry gelatin; press onto dough. Repeat until desired color appears.
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Step3Bake 8 to 10 minutes until light brown. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.
Nutrition
60
Calories
3g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
7g
Total Carbohydrate
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 60
- Calories from Fat
- 25
- Total Fat
- 3g
- 0%
- Saturated Fat
- 1g
- 0%
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 45mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 7g
- 0%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1/2 Fat;Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens
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