Firecracker Cookies
Firecracker 4th of July Cookies a soft sugar cookie colored Red White and Blue baked on a stick. Fun July 4th Cookie Idea. Red White and Blue Cookies on a stick for American Fun.
Servings: 12
Ingredients
- ½ Cup Butter Softened
- ½ Cup Granulated Sugar 100g
- 1 Egg Large
- ¼ Cup Vegetable Oil
- ½ Cup Powdered Sugar 65g
- ½ teaspoon Cream of Tartar
- ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- 2 Cup All Purpose Flour 240g
- ½ teaspoon Coconut Extract
- ½ teaspoon Strawberry Extract Or Cherry Extract
- ½ teaspoon Blue Raspberry Extract or Blueberry Extract
- Food Coloring Red and Blue
- Coarse Sugar optional to sprinkle on top
Instructions
- Prepare baking sheets with parchment paper or use baking spray and preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a large bowl using a hand mixer or use a Stand Mixer cream butter and granulated sugar together until light and fluffy.
- This will take a couple minutes. Make sure to scrape sides of bowl down multiple times to ensure all the ingredients are getting mixed together.
- Add egg and continue to mix together. Then carefully drizzle vegetable oil into mixture followed by Powdered Sugar.
- In a separate bowl combine all purpose flour, baking soda and cream of tartar. Gradually add dry ingredients to butter and sugar mixture until combined.
- Separate cookie dough into 3 separate and equal portions. Add blue food coloring and blue raspberry extract to one portion and mix to combine until desired color is reached and mixed through.
- In a separate bowl add Strawberry or Cherry Extract and a few drops of red food coloring and mix together until combined.
- add a little Coconut Extract to the portion I leave white just for fun.
- Press cookie dough onto stick while laying flat making sure each cookie is pressed up against each other too.
- Use fingers to flatten and shape into a rounded square. Then using a fork I add fork marks for texture.
- sprinkle coarse sugar onto cookies before baking (optional)
- Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven and bake for 7-9 minutes
- Cookies are done with edges are a very light golden and centers are set.
- Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet until cool before moving to cooling rack. This helps to ensure they cool and set on the cookie stick.
- Please take a picture of your cookies for the 4th of July and share with me on Social Media by tagging @bestcookierecipes.
Notes
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 small size Cookie Scoop. Americolor - I used AmeriColor Gel food coloring to get bright vibrant colorsSubstitutions
The most common substitution for this recipe is the use of extracts. You can use all vanilla extract if you wish and keep each cookie color tasting the exact same. Or you can flavor each color cookie using a different extract flavor. I love to make these cookies a little bit of tropical fun with Coconut Extract for the white cookie, then use a strawberry or cherry extract for the red cookie. A Blue Raspberry extract can be used on the blue portion. Sticks - I used an 8in lollipop sucker stick. Which gave me plenty of stick for the cookie along with enough to hold too. Tried this recipe?Mention @bestcookierecipes or tag #bestcookierecipes!