These are great tips. I always make what is effectively a simple syrup just not very sweet by boiling some water and sugar until the sugar is dissolved and brushing it over cookies before applying the sprinkles. Great Tips! I normally use egg whites to keep the sprinkles sticking. Thanks so much! One tip I saw elsewhere that might be useful is to hold the cookie cutter used to make the shape over the cookie while applying the sprinkles.
This keeps them from going all over the sheet and onto other cookies. Should one put the sprinkles on before or after baking? I used the milk tip, which really helped, but the sprinkles seem to be rather melty. Amethyst — The sprinkles should go on before baking to really hold them in place.
I would experiment with different types of sprinkles some are harder than others to see what gives you the best results. My son and I brushed water onto our shamrock cut out cookies then, sprinkled crystalized green sugar onto them and baked at for 7 minutes. No color changd and they are delicious!
Close zoom modal. Product Zoom. Skill Level Beginner. Top your cut shapes with sparkling sugar, nonpareils or jimmies for a quick color makeover, then bake. You can also roll dough or mix sparkling sugar or sprinkles right into your cookie dough for a little sparkle.
Add to Wishlist. Ingredients Instructions Reviews. Ingredients Print. If you are first getting into baking, you might be surprised by the fact that sprinkles can actually be quite problematic to work with. They have a tendency to spill out away from the food that you are trying to sprinkle and they can be hard to get to properly stick to the food itself, unless the right conditions are met.
After all, at their core, sprinkles are just colored and pressed sugar. There is nothing in the sprinkles themselves that would help them stick to the food that you want to add the sprinkles to. To successfully add sprinkles to a dish, you are going to need to have a surface that will take hold of the sprinkles. One of the reasons why you will see many cupcakes with sprinkles is that the icing on the cupcake will act as a natural binding agent to the sprinkles, keeping them attached to the cupcake so that you can have a delicious dessert.
Unfortunately, most cookies do not have frosting or icing on them, which means that it is going to be a fair bit more work to get the sprinkles to stick to your cookies.
With that being said, there are more than a few ways that you can add sprinkles to your cookies without completely slathering the cookies with frosting. Now that you have a good understanding of why sprinkles do not traditionally stick to cookies, you may also have some ideas on how you can get the sprinkles to stick to the cookies without affecting the recipe too much.
Frosting and glaze offer easy ways to get sprinkles to stick to already baked cookies. You can also cover cookies with sprinkles before baking , but they will melt and turn into colorful icing. Immediately add the sprinkles. They don't stick to frosting that's stiffened from sitting out at room temperature.
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