Funfetti Cookie Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 15 minutes plus 1 hour chilling time
Cooking time: 13 minutes per tray
Makes: 10 large cookies
Ingredients Needed
- 200g/7oz plain all purpose flour
- 20g/0.7oz cornflour/fine cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarb
- Pinch salt
- 150g/5oz butter, softened
- 80g/2.8oz caster or superfine sugar
- 50g/1.7oz light brown sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 100g/3.5oz white chocolate chips
- 60g/2oz sprinkles for dough
- 30g/1oz sprinkles to roll
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 DOUGH- In a bowl or a jug, whisk the flour (200g/7oz) together with the cornflour (20g/0.7oz), bicarb (1/2 teaspoon) and salt (Pinch) and set aside. In a mixer fitted with a beater attachment, beat butter (150g/5oz), caster or superfine sugar (80g/2.8oz) and light brown sugar (50g/1.7oz) together for 2-3 minutes. Beat in the egg yolks (2 egg yolks) and vanilla (2 teaspoons) until smooth. Add the flour mixture on low speed until almost mixed together. Then stir in the choc chips (100g/3.5oz) and first lot of sprinkles (60g/2oz).
Step 2 SCOOP - Scoop out a cookie dough using a 2oz ice cream scoop and roll in the extra sprinkles (30g/1oz). Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour up to 48 hours.
Step 3 BAKE - Preheat oven to 160C/320F fan forced or 180C/350F conventional. Line 2-3 baking sheets and place 3 or 4 balls on each tray keeping them 2 inches apart. Bake for 13 minutes.
Step 4 SHAPE - Immediately after the cookies are baked, if they aren't perfectly round, use a glass jar to scoot the edges into a circle using a swirling action. If the cookies are too domed, press down gently with the bottom of the glass. Cool on the tray for 15 minutes. Enjoy with a cup of tea, coffee or glass of milk!
Personal Note
On the day I made these we had to go out to dinner that evening so I quickly got these baked and photographed and then got ready. It was dinner in the city and it was a set menu. I never find set menus that good value but it wasn't our choice, it was something that host had organised. She was so excited and explained that the restaurant had created a special menu just for our table this evening.
I had already told them before about my barramundi allergy and the host assured me that they would bring out something else. She was a coeliac and was very organised about allergies.
The entrees were tasty, although there wasn't quite enough for people and we basically got one piece of sashimi per person or two if we were lucky. Then it came to the mains and I saw that there was barramundi and pork. They brought out the barramundi first. "Don't worry they'll have a dish for you," the host said patting my hand. I waited and then they brought out the pork dish.
I asked about my other dish in place of the barramundi and the waitress scowled. "This is it," she said thrusting the pork towards me. I told her that I understand that's the second main, but I thought I was getting a different dish as I can't eat barramundi. "What, do you want two now?" she sniped shoving the pork towards me.
"No, I don't want two plates of pork," I said slowly trying to be calm. Everyone at the table was silent as she agressively huffed and turned on her heel. They eventually brought something out and she actually apologised for the mix up.
Our dessert was more like a palate cleaner but people were still hungry. I felt so bad for the host who was so excited (and also had her gluten allergy ignored) only to have the restaurant let her down.
When we got home, I actually looked at the menu online and found something very interesting. They hadn't actually created anything special for us. It was all from the regular menu and to make things worse when you added everything up and the portions that we got it only added up to about $70 worth of food whereas the host had been charged $140 just for food alone! And we ended up eating these cookies as late night snacks as we were still hungry!
So tell me Dear Reader, what do you think about set menus? And do you like funfetti?
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