Scoop: Use a 3-tablespoon cookie scoop to scoop cookies and gently flatten just the top of each cookie with your fingers to get a flat surface for frosting.īake: Slightly underbaking is the key to these soft and tender cookies. Fold in the optional sprinkles.Ĭhill: Just 30 minutes in the fridge to stabilize the cookie dough. Use a spatula to fold in any remaining dry ingredients. Mix in dry ingredients: add the flour, baking powder, and salt to the dough and combine. Beat in the egg, vanilla extract, and cake batter flavor. Find the complete recipe at the end of the post in the printable recipe card.Ĭream: Cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Heads up! This is just a recipe overview. The sprinkles inside the cookies are totally optional! These are the same recipe as my Funfetti Cookies. I had about 1/2 cup leftover (great on cinnamon rolls or similar treats!), but if you’d like cookies that aren’t so indulgent you could also make just half the frosting recipe and use a spatula to spread a smaller amount onto each cookie. The recipe makes quite a bit of frosting, but you’ll use a lot more than you think when piping on top of the cookies. For the frosting:įor the frosting, you’ll need unsalted butter, cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar, cake batter flavor, vanilla extract, and (optional) heavy cream or whole milk in case it is too thick. Skip nonpareils (the tiny round sprinkles) which will bleed. Sprinkles! – Sprinkles are optional, but if you’d like to use them stick with rainbow sprinkles in the long thin cylinder shape. Without a scale handy, I lightly aerate the flour (use a whisk), spoon it into a measuring cup, and level it off with a butter knife. Dry cookies usually mean too much flour has been added. I prefer to weigh the flour with a kitchen scale for accuracy. Don’t panic–once it’s all mixed in it’ll be a light creamy color like in my photos.Īll-Purpose Flour – I use all-purpose unbleached flour for my cookie recipes. Note that the cake batter extract will turn the frosting yellow. The flavor really does make the cookies taste like cake. Here’s a couple quick things to take note of before starting!Ĭake Batter Flavor – This is such a fun ingredient! If you don’t have any, you can use more vanilla extract in place of it, but you’ll miss the cake batter flavor. For the cookies:įor the cookies you will need unsalted butter, confectioners’ sugar, granulated sugar, an egg, cake batter flavor, vanilla extract, all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, and sprinkles (optional). I’ve added sprinkles to the base as well as on top of the frosting, but you may omit them from the cookies if you’d prefer. First, the birthday cake base and then the soft cream cheese frosting. These Crumbl Birthday Cake Cookies are two-part cookies. Love these copycats? I’ve got a growing list of Crumbl Copycat Recipes I can’t wait for you to try! Ingredients You Will Need However, if you omit it the final cookies will taste more like a typical sugar cookie and won’t have any cake batter flavor. If you’d like to make these cookies, but don’t have cake batter flavor on hand, you can pick it up on Amazon OR omit it in place of vanilla extract. I’ve also added the cake batter extract to the cream cheese frosting, because why not? It’s a magical little ingredient that makes any baked good taste like cake/cake batter. I’ve opted to use my Funfetti base cookie for these cookies, which includes cake batter flavoring. These cookies will hit the mark with a tender sugar cookie and a special ingredient that transforms the typical flavor. Crumbl describes their Birthday Cake Cookie as “a warm cake batter cookie topped with vanilla cream cheese frosting and sprinkles”. Mm, these cookies are cake in cookie form. Please note that this post contains affiliate links which allow me to earn a small commission when a purchase is made at no additional cost to you. They are topped with a rich cream cheese frosting and sprinkles. These Crumbl Birthday Cake Cookies start with large cake batter cookies packed with sprinkles.

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