These Birthday Cake Cookies are fun and the can easily be made to go with whatever you’re celebrating or not celebrating, and just enjoying with your family. It’s a recipe that I have been making for many years that my family loves. It is very versatile and by making some simple changes they can go with your celebration.

Sprinkles for Other Celebrations

These cookies are an ideal cookie to share with others, not just for eating at home. They go well at bake sales, perfect for birthday parties, and other family and friend gatherings. And they’re super easy to make for any season, holiday, or celebration, just change the sprinkles and the chips. One of the best parts is you can make them in advanced of your celebration. Since they freeze well you can make them a few days, or weeks in advanced of your party. Some party ideas are:

Winter Cookies – use the blue and white winter sprinkles.
Sports Events – use sprinkles in 1 or 2 of your team’s colors for a Super Bowl party.
Valentine’s Day – use seasonal sprinkles if you can find them or buy pink or red sprinkles. Do you have left over red sprinkles from Christmas? You can use them up here.
St Parick’s Day – use green sprinkles, another use for leftover Christmas green sprinkles.
Princess or Unicorn or Mermaid Party – use sprinkles in the party colors.
Christmas – use red and green sprinkles. There are several available during the Christmas season.

Chips for Your Celebration

You can use the white chocolate chips with these cookies, but you can use milk or semi-sweet chocolate if that is what you prefer. Sometimes there will be special chips in the baking aisle, such as unicorn chips. I have used those with the rainbow sprinkles and my granddaughter thought those were fabulous. At that time, she was into anything magical and princess like. These cookies really hit with her.

Sprinkle Tips

I use the Decorating Sprinkles in rainbow color and mix the sprinkles in with the dough. As you can see in the cookie picture they blend in nicely and bake up so cute looking. A 2.7 oz botte of these sprinkles is 1/3 cup plus 1 tbsp. The recipe calls for 1/3 cup, but you can put in the entire bottle if you don’t want any left over. I do either one. It depends on if I have plans for the remaining tablespoon or not.

In the frosting section in many stores, they will have the everyday sprinkles. During holidays the holiday sprinkles can be found in the seasonal section of the store, or they might have a seasonal baking section in the store. Be sure to look around to find what you are looking for. If you want something really specific, the internet might be your best source.

Be Creative

These birthday cake cookies allow you to be creative with your combinations of sprinkles and chips. Use what you have and what you can find to fit your celebration. Or… make them and enjoy them at home with your family. They will love them when the smell of the freshly baked cookies fills the air and then biting into a cookie that is slightly warm yet. Between the smell and taste, you might just need to make two batches.

Happy Baking!

Birthday Chip Cookies

Birthday Chip Cookies are such fun and exciting cookies with the white chocolate chips and the sprinkles in the batter. It gives them a colorful funfetti look that kids enjoy, adults too.

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cookies

Prep Time: 30

Cook Time: 45

Chilling Time: 45

Total Time: 2

Servings:

Calories: 153kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

1 cup Butter flavored shortening
¾ cup Brown sugar
¾ cup Granulated sugar
1 tsp Vanilla
2 Large Eggs
1 tsp Baking soda
1 tsp Salt
2 ⅔ cup All-purpose flour
2 cup White chocolate chips
⅓ cup Rainbows sprinkles

Instructions

With a mixer or a wooden spoon, mix together shortening, brown sugar, granulated sugar, vanilla, and eggs.
Once the batter is smooth and silky looking, add in the water, baking soda, salt, and flour. Mix well.
Lastly, by hand mix in the chips and the sprinkles.
Chill the dough in the fridge for about 30-60 minutes. I return the dough to the fridge between batches to keep it cool, but that is optional.
While the dough is chilling, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place a baking stone in the oven as it preheats.
Once the oven and baking stone are preheated, using a medium cookie dough scoop, drop the cookies a couple inches apart onto the baking stone. Do not press flat. Just leave them as dough balls. They will flatten out somewhat as they bake.
Bake for 13-14 minutes or until golden brown.
Immediately remove from the baking stone to cool.
Store in an airtight container. They freeze well too.