Description
Delicious colorful cookies loaded with chocolate chips and festive decorations.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 ½ Tbsp cornstarch
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs (room temperature)
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp blue gel food coloring (*see notes)
- 2–3 drops violet gel food coloring
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- Candy sprinkle eyes (optional, for decoration)
- Oreos and Chips Ahoy cookies (broken into pieces for decoration)
Instructions
- Preheat and Prepare: Preheat your oven to 350°F (163°C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Mix Dry Ingredients: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, and cornstarch. Set aside.
- Cream Butter and Sugars: In a large mixing bowl, use a hand mixer or stand mixer to beat the softened butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until smooth and fluffy (about 2 minutes).
- Add Eggs and Vanilla: Mix in the vanilla extract, then beat in the eggs one at a time, ensuring each is well incorporated.
- Color the Dough: Add the blue and violet gel food coloring, mixing until the color is evenly distributed (see notes for coloring tips).
- Incorporate Dry Ingredients: Gradually add the dry ingredient mixture to the wet ingredients, mixing until just combined.
- Fold in Chocolate Chips: Stir in the semi-sweet and white chocolate chips, reserving about ⅓ cup of each for topping.
- Portion the Dough: Use a 2 Tbsp cookie scoop to portion the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing cookies about 2 inches apart.
- Decorate Before Baking: Press a few of the reserved chocolate chips, Oreos, and Chips Ahoy pieces onto the tops of each cookie. Do not add the candy eyes yet.
- Bake: Bake for 9 minutes, or until the cookies are set in the center but still slightly soft.
- Final Decorations: Immediately after removing from the oven, press additional chocolate chips and candy eyes onto the cookies if desired.
- Cool: Let the cookies rest on the baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- For a brighter color, add more gel food coloring as desired.
- These cookies can be decorated with any fun toppings!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 9 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 12g
- Sodium: 100mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 30mg