New Year’s Eve Danish Butter Cookie Recipe
This New Year’s Eve Danish butter cookie recipe is amazing and the perfect cookie to ring in the new year!
These butter cookies are made with simple ingredients, dipped in candy, and covered in confetti sprinkles to add a fun and festive touch to your celebrations. They’re buttery, melt-in-your-mouth delicious, and a sweet way to welcome the year ahead!
These cookies are not only easy to make but also a great treat to share with guests to enjoy as they celebrate the night away. Each bite is like a little party in your mouth, with the crunchy candy coating and colorful sprinkles adding the perfect crunch.
How to Make Butter Cookie Recipe from Scratch
The ingredients and directions listed below walk you through making these easy New Year’s Eve cookies. If you want to change the flavor in these cookies, you can substitute the vanilla extract for peppermint, rum, coconut, or any other flavor extract. The options are truly endless!
This recipe will make 24 cookies. If you need extra, simply double or triple the recipe to enjoy these amazing butter cookies.
Danish Butter Cookie Recipe Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) room temperature butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 cup black candy melts
- Gold Star sprinkles
- Silver Star sprinkles
- White confetti sprinkles
Other Items Needed
- parchment paper
- piping bag
- 1M piping bag tip
- baking sheet
How To Make New Year’s Eve Danish Butter Cookies
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Combine butter, sugar, egg, and extract in a mixer.
- Blend at medium speed, scraping the bowl often, until creamy.
- Add flour and salt, and blend at low speed until well mixed.
- Divide and use food coloring by mixing in each color.
- To make the cookies, insert a 1M tip into a pastry bag.
- Fill the bag with cookie dough. If it’s hard to pipe add the 1 tablespoon water. Warming the piping bag with your hands will help to pipe out the cookies.
- Pipe the cookies in a rotated motion onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 5 to 8 minutes, or until slightly golden.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and place them on a cookie rack to cool.
- Melt black candy melts in the microwave as directed.
- Carefully dip the cookies into the black candy melts and place them on a rack to dry.
- Sprinkle the star and confetti sprinkles onto the candy coating before it hardens
- Let the chocolate fully harden before serving and/or store the cookies in an airtight container.
- Enjoy!
Notes
You can use peppermint, rum, coconut, or any other flavor extract instead of vanilla extract to change the flavor of your cookies.
Prep: 20 Minutes
Cook: 8 Minutes
Be sure to get the printable recipe below and pin this recipe for later!
Danish Butter Cookie Recipe
Equipment
- piping bag
- 1M piping bag tip
- baking sheet
Ingredients
- 1 cup 2 sticks room temperature butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 cup black candy melts
- Gold Star sprinkles
- Silver Star sprinkles
- White confetti sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Combine butter, sugar, egg, and extract in a mixer.
- Blend at medium speed, scraping the bowl often, until creamy.
- Add flour and salt, and blend at low speed until well mixed.
- Divide and use food coloring by mixing in each color.
- To make the cookies, insert a 1M tip into a pastry bag.
- Fill the bag with cookie dough. If it’s hard to pipe add the 1 tablespoon water. Warming the piping bag with your hands will help to pipe out the cookies.
- Pipe the cookies in a rotated motion on to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 5 to 8 minutes, or until slightly golden.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and place them on a cookie rack to cool.
- Melt black candy melts in the microwave as directed.
- Carefully dip the cookies into the black candy melts and place them on a rack to dry.
- Sprinkle the star and confetti sprinkles onto the candy coating before it hardens
- Let the chocolate fully harden before serving and/or store the cookies in an airtight container.
- Enjoy!
