New Year’s Eve Cookies Recipe

This is the best simple butter cookie recipe with only 3 ingredients.

To this, I’ve also added a wicked easy chocolate glaze and gold and white sprinkles to snazz the cookies up for New Year’s eve!

I’m getting older and to tell you the truth, we haven’t really stayed up until midnight on New Year’s Eve for some time.

Maybe a few times over the past 10 years or so have we actually stayed up until midnight to watch the ball drop in NYC on TV.

But maybe this year we’ll stay up and celebrate a little bit. 

So, why not make a nice New Year’s eve dessert with a simple dessert recipe at that?

New Year’s Eve Cookies Recipe

If you have these 3 ingredients, you can make these cookies! Powdered sugar, flour, butter. That’s it!

Also, if you have water and cocoa powder, you can also make the chocolate glaze!

Then, grab some gold and white sprinkles and voila – you have awesome New Year’s Eve cookies!

New Year’s Eve Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup butter (2 sticks) at room temperature
• 2 cups flour

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare baking sheet with parchment paper.
• With your mixer, cream together butter and powdered sugar
• Add flour 1/2 cup at a time. Wipe the sides of the bowl once after all flour has been added
• Mix, mix, mix – a few dough balls will thump around in your mixer. Once this happens, stop the mixer, remove the dough and form it with your hands into a large ball.
• Treat your surface and roller with powdered sugar, roll cookie dough into 1/4 inch thick slab(s); cut with cookie cutters.
• Place on parchment and bake for 15-17 minutes – watch carefully as each oven differs! Remove as soon as the edges show a hint of golden brown
• Cool for 3 minutes, move to cooling rack to finish cooling
• Add optional glaze and sprinkles (see glaze recipe)
• Store in airtight container for up to a week

Chocolate Glaze

Ingredients

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbs + 1 tsp cocoa powder
• 1 tbs + tsp water (+ up to 1 more tbs)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

• Stir powdered sugar and cocoa powder together in a small bowl
• Mix in 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon of water and 1 tsp vanilla extract.
• Slowly add water, up to 1 more tablespoon until you have the perfect consistency for dipping the cookies
• Dip cookies half way and allow excess to drip off; sprinkle gold and white sprinkles onto the glaze
• Place cookies on a cookie rack (over paper towels), allowing the chocolate glaze to set

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New Year’s Eve Butter Cookies with Chocolate Glaze

Easy butter cookies and chocolate glaze recipe.

Prep Time 30 mins

Cook Time 17 mins

Total Time 47 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 cup butter 2 sticks at room temperature
• 2 cups flour

Chocolate Glaze

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbs + 1 tsp cocoa powder
• 1 tbs + tsp water + up to 1 more tbs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare baking sheet with parchment paper.
• With your mixer, cream together butter and powdered sugar
• Add flour 1/2 cup at a time. Wipe the sides of the bowl once after all flour has been added
• Mix, mix, mix – a few dough balls will thump around in your mixer. Once this happens, stop the mixer, remove the dough and form it with your hands into a large ball.
• Treat your surface and roller with powdered sugar, roll cookie dough into 1/4 inch thick slab; cut with cookie cutters.
• Place on parchment and bake for 15-17 minutes – watch carefully as each oven differs! Remove as soon as the edges show a hint of golden brown
• Cool for 3 minutes, move to cooling rack to finish cooling
• Add optional glaze and sprinkles (see glaze recipe)
• Store in airtight container for up to a week

Chocolate Glaze

• Stir powdered sugar and cocoa powder together in a small bowl
• Mix in 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon of water and 1 tsp vanilla extract.
• Slowly add water, up to 1 more tablespoon until you have the perfect consistency for dipping the cookies
• Dip cookies half way and allow excess to drip off; sprinkle gold and white sprinkles onto the glaze
• Place cookies on a cookie rack (over paper towels), allowing the chocolate glaze to set

Author: Scrappy Geek

Course: Dessert