Celebrate America's Birthday with these Patriotic Red White and Blue Sandwich Cookies. July 4th Cookies Sandwich are a soft sugar cookie and delicious cream cheese frosting makes these colored sandwich cookies a fun and festive treat for any patriotic holiday.
My boys love sandwich cookies and I love to make them and eat them too. I love to use my favorite soft sugar cookie recipe that doesn't require any chilling. Easy to scoop and bake too.
It's fun to make these Red White and Blue Sandwich Cookies for Memorial Day or the 4th of July. But can be made anytime you want a sweet treat to share.
I've also included how to make cookie sandwich frosting which is my Cream Cheese Frosting recipe along with tips and tricks on how to frost and add sprinkles too!
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Dry Ingredients. All Purpose flour, Granulated Sugar, Powdered Sugar, Baking Soda and Cream of Tartar
Butter, Egg, and Vanilla Extract
Food Coloring
Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients
Powdered Sugar
Butter and Cream Cheese
Vanilla Extract and Milk
Food Coloring
How to make 4th of July Cookies
This recipe is truly a favorite for how easy these cookies are to make. I do suggest taking the time to measure and weigh dry ingredients. This will give you the best results time and time again. Here is a Quick Tip Guide to common measurements.
In a large mixing bowl using a hand mixer cream butter and granulated sugar together for 2-3 minutes. This allows the butter to become light and fluffy. The longer its creamed with lighter it becomes.
Add egg and vanilla extract and continue to cream ingredients another 1-2 minutes. Carefully drizzle vegetable oil into mixture and cream for an additional 2-3 minutes.
In a separate bowl combine All purpose flour with baking soda and cream of tarter. Mix to combine.
Gradually add dry ingredients to butter mixture a little at a time allow ingredients to mix together before adding more.
Separate dough into 2 equal portions. Add a few drops of red and blue coloring and mix together. Add enough food coloring to achieve the color of red or blue you like.
Using a medium cookie scoop place cookie dough scoops on a greased baking sheet or lined with parchment paper. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven.
Cool cookies on baking sheet for a couple minutes before moving to a cooling rack to finish cool completely. Recipe will make 24 cookies, 12 of each color if properly separated cookie dough.
There is no need to chilled the dough for this recipe. Which I love!
How to make Cream Cheese Frosting
Making a cream cheese frosting is pretty quick and easy. Cream Butter and Cream Cheese together until fluffy. Add powdered sugar. The mixture will be very thick.
Add vanilla extract and a little bit of milk. I like to start with about 1 tablespoon and then mix everything together before adding more milk. Add a few drops of milk at a time so the frosting doesn't become too thin.
Place frosting into a piping bag and snip the corner of the bag. Generously pipe frosting in a swirl onto a cooke and place alternating color cookie on top.
Roll edges of sandwich cookie into holiday sprinkles for added fun! The Fourth of July or Memorial Day will be so fun with these sandwich cookies.
Pro Tips
Room Temperature Ingredients. Always use butter that has come to room temperature for 1 hour. Butter will still be firm to the touch and not mushy. It's always a good idea to pull an egg out as well. This really does make a difference in the creaming process.
Measuring Ingredients. Use a kitchen scale to properly weigh ingredients. It's the best way to have consistency when baking
Use a parchment lined baking sheet or spray with cooking spray before baking
Cookie Scoop. I used a size #24 Cookie Scoop. Or use a Small size #60 for perfectly shaped cookies
Red White and Blue Sandwich Cookie
Ingredients
- ½ Cup Butter Softened
- ½ Cup Granulated Sugar 100g
- 1 Egg Large; Room Temperature
- ¼ Cup Vegetable Oil
- ½ Cup Powdered Sugar 65g
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 Cup All Purpose Flour 240g
- ½ teaspoon Cream of Tartar
- ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- Red and Blue food Coloring
- ½ Cup Sprinkles Optional
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 ounces Cream Cheese Softened
- 4 Cups Powdered Sugar
- ¼ Cup Butter Softened
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1-3 Tablespoons Milk
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl using a hand mixer cream butter and granulated sugar together for 2-3 minutes. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl as needed
- Add egg and vanilla extract and continue to cream ingredients another 1-2 minutes.
- Carefully drizzle vegetable oil into mixture and cream for an additional 2-3 minutes. Scrape sides of bowl.
- Add ½ cup powdered sugar and cream with butter mixture.
- In a separate bowl combine All purpose flour with baking soda and cream of tarter. Mix to combine.
- Gradually add dry ingredients to butter mixture a little at a time allow ingredients to mix together before adding more.
- Separate dough into 2 equal portions. Add a few drops of red color to one bowl and blue coloring to the other and mix together. Add enough food coloring to achieve the color of red or blue you like.
- Using a medium cookie scoop place cookie dough scoops on a greased baking sheet or lined with parchment paper. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven.
- Bake for 7-9 minutes. Edges will be set and just barely golden when done baking. Do not over bake.
- Cool cookies on baking sheet for a couple minutes before moving to a cooling rack to finish cool completely.
- Recipe will make 24 cookies, 12 of each color if properly separated cookie dough.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- Cream Butter and Cream Cheese together until fluffy. Add powdered sugar. The mixture will be very thick.
- Add vanilla extract and a little bit of milk (1 tablespoon). And mix together. If additional milk is needed add only a couple drops at a time and mix together.
- Place frosting into a piping bag and snip the corner of the bag. Generously pipe frosting in a swirl onto a cooke and place alternating color cookie on top.
- Optional: Roll edges of sandwich cookie into holiday sprinkles for added fun!
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