Easy and delicious Leprechaun cookies for any St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Crinkle Cookies have always been a family favorite of ours because they’re so simple to make but bring a huge punch of flavor.
Crinkle Cookies for St. Patrick’s Day!
Leprechaun Cookies For St. Patrick’s Day!
What You Need To Make Leprechaun Cookies
Crinkle Cookie Ingredients
- 1 box *white* cake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 C vegetable oil
- green food coloring gel
- 1/3 C powdered sugar
How To Make Leprechaun Cookies
Mix cake mix, oil, and eggs in a medium bowl or stand mixer with paddle attachment. Once cake mix is combined thoroughly roll into one large ball. It is completely normal for the crinkle cookie dough to be sticky. Add desired food color gel.
Place dough rounds in the fridge covered with clear plastic wrap for 30-60 minutes. Once you know that the dough is completely cold, preheat oven to 375 F.
Remove dough from refrigerator to begin making cookies. Roll tablespoon size balls of chilled dough in powdered sugar generously. The more powdered sugar that is covering the dough the better. They’ll bake up and look perfectly like crinkled paper.
Place dough balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Dough balls should be 1″-2″ apart to avoid baking into one another.
Bake for 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees F. Watch the cookies closely as the bottoms can burn quickly.
Remove from oven with sides begin to brown. Cookie will appear to be undercooked but will firm up as they cool. Let cool on wire rack before serving.
Simple, soft, fudge-texture! You will want to make a double batch of these cookies because they’ll go so fast you won’t want only one.
Other Green Crinkle Cookie Ideas
Use the same recipe to switch it up for other holidays or parties.
- Christmas – Add a little bow made with red icing.
- Dr. Seuss Grinch – Gently press a single red heart sprinkles before baking.
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Leprechaun Cookies
Create this simple yet delicious crinkle cookie using your favorite boxed cake mix! This soft fudgy-texture cookie is so easy to make, your family will be begging for more. Perfect for St. Patrick's Day or a Christmas celebration!
Ingredients
- 1 box cake mix white is best for coloring
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 C oil
- Green food coloring
- 1/3 C powdered sugar
Instructions
- Mix cake mix, oil, and eggs in a medium bowl.
- Once cake mix is combined thoroughly roll into one large ball. Dough will be sticky. This is normal.
- Cut raw dough in half and dye to desired color.
- Place dough rounds in the fridge covered with clear plastic wrap for thirty minutes.
- Once you know that the dough is completely cold, preheat oven to 375 F.
- Remove dough from refrigerator to begin making cookies.
- Roll tablespoon size balls of chilled raw dough in powdered sugar generously.
- Place dough balls on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Dough balls should be 2" apart to avoid baking into one another.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees F.
- Watch the cookies closely as the bottoms can burn quickly.
- Remove from oven with sides begin to brown. Cookie will appear to be undercooked but will firm up as they cool.
- Let cool on wire rack before serving.
Notes
The more generous you are with the powdered sugar, the prettier the cookies will be. Make sure to completely cover the raw dough with powdered sugar when you roll the dough.
Store baked cookies in airtight container for up to 1 week for the freshest taste.
