My daughter, Laura, has a niece that likes to come to our house to make cookies. When Laura asked Jordan what kind of cookies she wanted to make, she said she wanted to make unicorn cookies. So I searched for unicorn cookie cutters.
Not only did I find the cookie cutters – but I found unicorn glitter sugar….plus all kinds of wonderful cookie decorations that I didn’t know existed.
Unicorn Glitter Sugar: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FH7RFWK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
We used the Pioneer Woman’s Angel Sugar Cookie recipe for the sugar cookies. They are quick and easy to make (although you do need to chill the dough for about 1 hour) and so delicious to eat!
We also made dinosaur cookies – what a fun day!
These are very pretty cookies when you top them with colored sanding sugar. We used purple and lilac in the spring and red and green at Christmas time. Great recipe to use when you are cooking with kids.
Easy Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened plus more for buttering glass
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanillla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 4 cups, plus 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 4 tablespoons colored sanding sugar or unicorn glitter sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, oil, granulated sugar, powdered sugar, vanilla and eggs.
- Add the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt and mix well. Cover and refrigerate the dough for at least 1hour.
- Using a cookie scoop, drop balls of dough onto ungreased, unlined baking sheets. Smear a dab of butter all over the bottom of a glass, then dip the glass in granulated sugar. Use glass to flatten each ball of dough, dipping again into sugar each time.
- Sprinkle about 1/2 teaspoon of the colored sanding sugar, or unicorn glitter, on each cookie.
- Bake until the cookies are just barely turning brown, 9-11 minutes. Be careful not to overbrown. Allow to cool. These are ultra crumbly – so good!
