These spring cookies are the perfect way to welcome the warmer weather. Loaded with mini chocolate chips and colorful baking confetti, these soft chewy cookies are a great weeknight dessert or addition to any gathering or Easter event.
There’s no dessert as versatile as cookies. From easy peanut butter cookies for weeknight desserts to holiday variations like white chocolate peppermint cookies, St Patrick’s Day sugar cookies, or Valentine’s Day cookies, there’s a sweet, hand-held treat for any occasion.
Our newest spring cookies are as versatile as they are delicious, as well. Their soft, chewy dough and mini chocolate chips make them the perfect desserts, while their festive, colorful sprinkles are also suited for the spring season and holidays like Easter.
Jump to:
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Basic Ingredients: These cookies use basic baking ingredients. There’s nothing fancy here. Even the unicorn baking confetti can be found at your local Walmart.
- So Easy: This is a basic cookie recipe. Simply mix the dough, scoop it, and bake. Easy peasy.
- Customizable: It’s easy to add different mix-ins to this dough to create all kinds of tasty cookies.
- Versatile: These are the perfect weeknight dessert or party snack for spring parties and a great treat at Easter gatherings.
- Great for Prepping: These cookies are freezer-friendly, so you can make extra for later.
Key Ingredients
You’ll find the full list of ingredients and their exact amounts in the recipe card at the end of the post.
- Corn Syrup: Corn syrup adds moisture and helps create soft, chewy cookies.
- Mini Chocolate Chips: Mini chocolate chips add classic chocolate chip cookie flavor while saving room for the sprinkles.
- Fancy Unicorn Baking Chips: We love the spring-like feel these pastel, multi-colored baking chips add to the cookies.
Variations
- Chocolate Chip Cookies: Leave out the sprinkles for delicious mini chocolate chip cookies.
- Mini M&M Cookies: Use mini M&Ms with this dough to make fun mini M&M cookies.
- Reese’s Pieces: Add Reese’s Pieces to the dough base to make soft, chewy Reese’s Pieces cookies.
- Sprinkles: You can use your favorite brand of pastel sprinkles for these cookies. You can also change sprinkle themes to suit any holiday or special occasion.
- Your Other Favorite Mix-Ins: This cookie dough is perfect for all your favorite mix-ins, from various baking chips to nuts, and more. Have fun and get creative!
How to Make Spring Cookies
Step 1: Whisk the dry dough ingredients in a medium bowl, then set aside. Then,
Step 2: Beat the butter, vanilla, and both sugars until creamy in a large bowl. Then, beat in the eggs.
Step 3: Mix the dry ingredients into the wet until combined. Then, fold in the chocolate chips and baking confetti.
Step 4: Using a 1-inch cookie scoop, drop dough rounds onto two prepared baking sheets.
Step 5: Bake at 375°F until the edges begin to brown.
Step 6: Remove the cookies from the oven and leave them on the baking sheets for a couple of minutes. Then, transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Expert Tips
- To ensure the perfect amount of flour, loosely spoon it into your measuring cup and level it off with a knife to avoid compacting.
- Mix your cookie dough until the ingredients are combined, then stop. Overmixing activates gluten in the dough, resulting in tough cookies.
- Fold your chocolate chips and confetti into the dough rather than mixing them in. This also helps reduce gluten activation in the dough.
- Remove the cookies as soon as the edges begin to brown. The heat from the pans will continue baking them to perfection when you remove them from the oven.
Spring Cookies FAQs
These spring cookies are a colorful take on classic chocolate chip cookies, incorporating mini chocolate chips and colorful Fancy Unicorn baking confetti into soft, chewy cookie dough.
Fancy unicorn baking confetti is a baking mix that combines pastel candy-coated chocolates with pastel sprinkles.
Cookies can be tough due to excessive flour, overmixing, overbaking, or a combination of these factors. Be sure to loosely spoon your flour into your measuring cup to avoid compacting. In addition, mix your dough until just combined, and remove your cookies as soon as the edges begin to brown.
These cookies will last for up to 2 weeks in an airtight container at room temperature. For longer storage, freeze them in a freezer-safe, airtight container in single layers separated by wax or parchment paper for up to 3 months.
More Delicious Desserts Perfect for Spring
If you try this recipe and love it, please be sure to leave a 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating below and comment! You can also pin it to save it for later. Also, you can follow us on Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Remember to “like” or “follow” us on all social media.
Spring Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter
- ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ teaspoon corn syrup
- 2 large eggs
- 8 ounce Fancy Unicorn Baking Confetti, available at Walmart
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375° and line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat on medium speed, butter, brown sugar, sugar, vanilla and corn syrup together until creamy.
- Beat eggs into the wet mixture.
- Gradually add flour a little at a time until all the flour mixture is mixed well.
- Stir in baking confetti and mini chocolate chips.
- Using a 1-inch cookie scoop, drop on prepared baking sheets.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until the edges start to brown.
- Remove from the oven and let sit for a couple minutes on the cookie sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Notes
- To ensure the perfect amount of flour, loosely spoon it into your measuring cup and level it off with a knife to avoid compacting.
- Mix your cookie dough until the ingredients are combined, then stop. Overmixing activates gluten in the dough, resulting in tough cookies.
- Fold your chocolate chips and confetti into the dough rather than mixing them in. This also helps reduce gluten activation in the dough.
- Remove the cookies as soon as the edges begin to brown. The heat from the pans will continue baking them to perfection when you remove them from the oven.
These cookies are so pretty! I love the soft texture, too. I used Christmas sprinkles for the season, and I’ll be using other sprinkles for other events, too. Love these.
These were so pretty, I couldn’t wait for spring. I made them last night, and we all loved them. I MAY have had a few more after the kids went to bed…
Great recipe. Any time you add corn syrup to cookies, you’re going to have something amazing.
These cookies are so bright and cheerful! They really capture the essence of spring with those beautiful colors. They look like they have a lovely, soft texture that would be perfect for a seasonal tea party or a weekend treat!
These turned out super cute! Even if it isn’t spring yet they just add a little sunshine to the day. Perfect texture too!
Lovely Spring Cookies! They are so bright and easy to make!
I made these with my kids and they were so fun. Light, soft, and colorful!