Almond Sprinkle Cookies

The almond sprinkle cookies will brighten your day! Soft, chewy, flavored with almond extract and bursting with vibrant sprinkle colors.

And if you want cookies but don’t want a complicated baking recipe, these are the cookie for you. Wait until you see the fun baking hack that makes these quite literally the easiest homemade sugar cookie ever!

I’m not claiming this to be the easiest cookie recipe without backing that up with proof.

Here’s what makes these the easiest sugar cookie recipe and the easiest kid friendly cookie recipe!

• No making cookie dough balls
• No need for any cookie cutters
• No rolling a sheet of dough and making a messy counter

So I’ve said you’re not making dough balls, you’re not rolling dough, and you’re not using cookie cutters. Want to know how you’re going to make these cookies?

You bake one BIG cookie rectangle. Then, after this giant cookie bakes, use your pizza cutter and slice this into little square cookies!

See how easy that is? And why this is the perfect cookie recipe to try with your little ones.

My big cookie looks like this. I measured 9″ tall by 10″ and find this is the best size for the perfect cookie.

Let’s talk sprinkles.

The vibrant colored sprinkles just pop on these cookies, and you can add as much as you like!

While I haven’t tried these before, I am interested in trying sprinkles that don’t use artificial colors. I found these sprinkles here on Amazon.

Has anyone tried these sprinkles? Or another sprinkle that uses natural food color? Let me know in the comments!

If you’re looking for more Christmas cookies to add to your Holiday baking, I have a few more options to look at!

My absolute favorite cookie to make every year are these. Soft and Chewy Molasses Cookies Perfectly spiced, soft and chewy, totally irresistible!

Speaking of soft and chewy, here are my Brown Butter Chewy Oatmeal Cookies, Chewy Lemon Cookies, and Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies!

Baking tips

• This dough is wet and a little sticky, it’s not your traditional drier dough. Use a spoon, spatula or your hands to smooth out the dough and spread it on the sheet.
• Use the smallest baking sheet you have, when you spread out the dough it’s not going to spread all the way to the edges.
• My favorite thickness comes from making the large rectangle cookie dough 9″ tall by 10″.
• One it has baked, use your pizza cutter to slice into little squares.
• This recipe uses shortening. I’ve never tried it with butter so don’t know how that would turn out. While I don’t use shortening often, it definitely works in this recipe!
• As noted above, if you don’t want the artificial coloring from traditional sprinkles, there are options for sprinkles that use natural coloring ingredients.

It can’t get any easier than that to have homemade freshly baked almond sprinkle cookies!

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