Whole Wheat Sprinkle Shortbread Cookies
Here is a simple and delicious holiday cookie recipe to make for (or with) your little one.
And what I love about this cookie recipe is that the ingredients are SO simple: whole wheat flour, unsalted butter, coconut sugar, egg, vanilla and a tiny bit of salt - that’s it!
The result is a crunchy, buttery and slightly sweet cookie that is perfectly festive when topped with fun, holiday sprinkles!
Note you will have to chill the dough for at least two hours and will need a rolling pin and your cookie cutter of choice! I recommend using one that is 2-2.5 inches wide.
Ingredients
1 cup whole wheat flour (I use Organic 100% Stone Ground Whole Wheat Flour by Bob’s Red Mill)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup coconut sugar
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Sprinkles of choice (I use sprinkles by Supernatural that are made without any artificial coloring)
Instructions
1. In a small bowl, whisk together flour and salt. Set aside
2. In a larger bowl, add butter and sugar and cream together with an electric hand mixer for about 2 minutes until fluffy
3. Add egg yolk and vanilla and beat for another minute
4. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and combine with a rubber spatula. Empty out onto a piece of parchment and form the rest of the dough into a disk with your hands
5. Place another piece of parchment paper on top of dough and roll out until 1/4 inch thick
6. Place in the refrigerator (keep parchment paper on) for 2 hours up to overnight
7. Preheat oven to 325 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper
8. Remove parchment from chilled dough and use a cookie cutter to cut out cookies. Place on baking sheet an inch apart
9. Top with sprinkles of choice (pressing them into the cookie slightly) and bake in oven for 18-20 minutes until golden on the edges
10. Once first batch is in oven, take dough scraps and repeat steps 4-6 just chilling until first batch is out of oven, then cut out more cookies and bake. Repeating with more scraps if you have
11. Cool baked cookies completely on cooling rack (Note these take best when fully cooled. Store in an air tight container) and enjoy!
Whole Wheat Sprinkle Shortbread Cookies