Confetti Christmas Cookies are a fun and festive cookie for any cookie swap or holiday gift! Red and green sprinkles give these Christmas Cookies a cheery holiday look!
So, I have a little story to tell you. It’s all about the time when I made Christmas cookies and sent them to other bloggers. Sounds fun, right? It was all part of The Great Food Bloggers Cookie Swap of 2012.
When you are baking for other people, other bloggers especially, there is a slight bit of pressure to make sure your reputation for cooking good food stays in tact. You really want everything to turn out perfectly. You do not, let’s say, want to accidentally put banana flavored instant pudding in your cookie dough when it’s supposed to be French vanilla instant pudding. You also do not want to realize you made the mistake until after you’ve put the cookies in the mail, come home and snatched your first bite of said cookies. No, no you don’t.
So, to my friends Maris, Lindsay and Kelly… I must apologize, profusely, for grabbing the wrong box out of my pantry and sending you what were not the best cookies ever. I owe you really good cookies, which these Confetti Christmas Cookies are, when made with the correct type of pudding!
A special thanks to Lindsay (yep…I sent bad cookies to one of the coordinators of the cookie swap!) and Julie for organizing yet another fun and successful Food Bloggers Cookie Swap! Also, a big shout out to Becky for her Peanut Butter Blossom cookies, Gerri for his Cranberry Orange Cookies with White Chocolate Chunks and Christina for the Chai Tea Sugar Cookies. They were gobbled up within mere hours of hitting our doorstep. Thank you for your generosity and for sharing such delicious cookies with my family!
Now, for the Confetti Christmas Cookies recipe, with the correct type of pudding mix listed!
Christmas Confetti Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 sticks butter room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 Tablespoon light corn syrup
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 4- ounce package French Vanilla Instant Pudding Mix
- 2 teaspoons cream of tarter
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 cup Red and Green Christmas sprinkles
Instructions
- Combine the butter, sugar and corn syrup in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and beat on medium-high speed for 2-3 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the eggs and vanilla bean paste and mix for 7-8 minutes, until mixture is light and fluffy.
- Meanwhile, in a separate bowl, sift together the flour, French vanilla pudding mix, cream of tarter, baking soda and salt. Slowly add to the wet ingredients, mixing until the dough forms together.
- With the mixer at low speed, add the sprinkles and mix just until incorporated, no longer than 30 seconds.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill for at least one hour and up to overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper or Silpat.
- Scoop dough out in rounded tablespoons, approximately one inch apart, on the baking sheet.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes then remove from the oven.
- Allow to firm up on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes, then remove from cookie sheet onto a wire cooling rack.
- Serve and enjoy!
oh contraire! I had several of your confetti cookies and actually appreciated that they weren’t simply vanilla! I couldn’t put my finger on the flavor (to be honest, I thought maybe it was the abundance of sprinkles because I don’t use them that often), but they tasted okay to me…and some of my coworkers who I shared them with! I bet without the sprinkles and maybe some caramel chips or some cinnamon, you could have some delicious banana cookies!
also, I think you linked my name to Lindsay’s blog above! [as much as I wish I could be as awesome of a blogger as she is… :]
Your very welcome and I bet your cookies still tasted like an A+
Oh my! That would be me! I would have freaked out too! But I am sure they were blown away anyway! It did make me laugh!
It’s so reassuring that hear that you have moments like that too (although by the sounds of it, the recipients of your cookies loved them anyway). I am always grabbing the wrong container of something and realising I’ve put the wrong spice or flour or leavening agent in something and have had to start again! I bet these cookies were delicious anyway!
Well, I’m not sure how you get more festive than these! They look amazing!
Haha I’ve almost made the same mistake numerous times, so I know the feeling. But I’m sure they were still delicious with the banana flavored pudding. 🙂
What a nightmare! I know exactly what you mean about people having high expectations of what you make – you just want everything to be perfect. Never mind though, it sounds like they loved your cookies and I reckon the banana probably tasted pretty good!
I bet they still tasted amazing. And they look so pretty too!
These sound fantastic! Im definitely going to try these..with the right flavored pudding! 😛 hah Thats totally something I would do!
Oh that’s nice. Can’t get more than this on festive. Love your cookies. Looks very delicious 🙂
Oh that’s nice. Can’t get more than this on festive. Love your cookies. Looks very delicious 🙂
The cookies look sooooo delish! Will try the recipe before Christmas 🙂
That totally sounds like something I’ve done. We are truly sisters of the same mind!
These look perfect and simple and kid friendly.
Hey, if anything it makes for a good story! Thanks for sending me cookies – we enjoyed them, regardless of the unintentional banana-ness. 🙂 I thought they tasted like banana taffy or runts or something (which I actually love – now if you had grabbed grape pudding, that would be a different story).
Kristin this made me giggle. I heart you!
Oh no!!! Maybe a good mistake – lots of fabulous recipes get created this way when the “wrong” ingredient is used!! They still look good to me!
Oh no!! Maybe this isn’t a bad thing though – a lot of great recipes get created from “mistakes” when a “wrong” ingredient is used. I am sure they were just as fabulous tasting as they are fabulous looking!!
That is SO hilarious! I love it 🙂
They look fabulous Kristen! Fun event!
So glad you participated this year, Kristen!! These cookies look gorgeous!!!
I’m sure your cookies still taste amazing! Love the confetti so much.
Oh no, I make mistakes like that all the time. I am sure they were still amazing. And I’m pretty sure I am going to make a batch tonight. These look so good!
Oh, that is TOO funny. That’s like the one time Aimee said to a group of us, “Well what about the test cookie?” and we all stared around blankly.. a.. TEST cookie? What a novel idea! Now I don’t bake cookies without doing that. 🙂
These look so fun! I bet they taste amazing. What is that drink in the first picture?!
That sounds like something I would do, Kristen. Still giggling.
So your cookies just look divine (regardless of the mishap)! And ummm can we talk about that DRINK? MUST HAVE!
Girl, it totally happens to the best of us so seriously you shouldn’t even sweat it! It’s murphy’s law anyway…anything that COULD go wrong, absolutely will. Plus they look so adorable anyway!
Thanks for this Christmas confetti cookie recipe. This will be a fine addition to my Christmas menu.
Seriously, you don’t snag some of the raw cookie dough at some point? And then not a cookie until AFTER you cool, wrap and mail them?!?! Girl, you have WAY more will power than me! I had issues with my cookies for the swap too and one set of the cookies I received were DELICIOUS but arrived in large crumbles. Things happen but it’s still a ton of fun, you get cookies, and it’s for a great cause! 🙂
Oh I was convinced I wouldn’t have enough cookies and would have to make another batch if I snitched any of the dough! Normally I’d be all over dough tasting, but was being very careful NOT to eat any because I personally didn’t want to have to make another batch just for a few more cookies 🙂