Shamrock Cookies
We love to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day here but not with crazy parties or get-togethers but something to note the day like these very cute Shamrock Cookies. Amber made these for you! She has a talent with her sugar cookie designs but these are very simple. To ice you do a piped edge with a slightly thicker icing and then flooding a thinner icing into the middle.
These would finish off a meal of corned beef and cabbage like no other and put smiles on everyone’s face. We make up a big batch of sugar cookies and they are shared over many holidays like Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, birthdays and more. Sugar cookies freeze very well before or after icing. So you can have something for every occasion!
Aren’t these the cutest? I have a huge bag of cookie cutters that I have collected throughout the years but they are very easy to find at any local craft store or online. The little ones are fun to put into a lunchbox! Our daughter Amber is a teenager now but I think she loves her sugar cookies even more than when she was little as she loves to decorate them now!
Flooding is a simple technique that everyone can have fun with. Come over to Amber’s Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies post to see all the details of flooding. She has a tutorial on this previous post.
Enjoy St. Patrick’s Day and celebrate the Irish in you, even if there may only be a smidge! For more recipes to celebrate St. Paddy’s Day check out 15 Dreamy Irish Recipes.
The Recipe
- Sugar Cookies
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- ½ cup white corn syrup
- pinch of salt
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 3¼ cups flour
- Icing
- 4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 3 Tbsp. meringue powder
- 5-6 Tbsp. water, plus more to thin
- Food colouring, liquid or gel
- For the sugar cookies, in a stand up mixer cream butter and sugars together and then beat in eggs until well mixed. Add vanilla and syrup and mix well. Whisk together dry ingredients and add slowly, mixing well until all is incorporated. Chill the dough well, best if done overnight. Roll out dough onto a well floured surface and cut into various shapes. Bake at 325F for 8-10 min. on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Let cool 5 min. on the tray and then remove to further cool on a cooling rack.
- For the icing, add the ingredients to a standup mixer with a paddle attachment and mix for 5-7 min. until soft and glossy, if too thick add more water. Add additional water to thin to a toothpaste consistency. Take out about ½ cup for piping the outside, depending on the size and shape of cookies you may want more. Thin the rest of the icing sugar to a corn syrup consistency, continuing to beat. Place in piping bags with plain tips. Cover any remaining icing with a damp towel.
- Outline cookies with the thicker frosting and flood with the thinner, use a toothpick to guide the icing right up to the border or use the tip of the icing bag itself to come in closer and finish off any tiny areas with a toothpick.
- Let cookies dry for 1-2 days before storing. Cookies freeze well and also last in a sealed container for a couple of weeks.
- Tip: This recipe makes a lot, you can make other shapes for different holidays and have them ready in the freezer to ice for later if desired.
Stacie @ Divine Lifestyle says
Those are so cute! I especially love the frosted tops. Frosting makes everything better!
Jeanette says
Those look so good! What a great job that you did! I wish my frosting on top of my cookies would look as neat as yours. I am definitely going to try this.
Tara Noland says
Thank you, that is my talented daughter at work!!
Robin Rue says
These cookies are so cute! I need to make some of these with my kids.
TColeman says
I have a get together for my grand kids and this would be so fun! We could make them together.
Diana Rambles says
What cute cookies. My kids would have fun making them.
Liz Mays says
We’re definitely going to try and have some St. Patrick’s Day themed meals and treats. These cookies would be so fun!
Randa says
These are so pretty and look so yummy! I love the frosting technique – really makes them stand out.
Keikilani says
Love these fun cookies! My kids would beg to help decorate them.
gingermommyrants says
These cookies look so yummy. I will have to try making these on the weekend. I hope mine turn out as nice as yours did.
Claudia Krusch says
Shamrock cookies are a great idea. I will have to get the ingredients I need to make some this week. I am sure they will be a big hit.
Elizabeth Lampman says
Oh my these cookies looks so delicious. I am excited to make some for my cookie exchange.
Ann Bacciaglia says
I have been looking for some dessert ideas for St Patrick’s Day. These are going to be perfect and delicious.
Rachel Everheart says
OMG…these are so cute! And utterly delicious to look at. My Gran always made sugar cookies for holidays. It’s the best tradition to always get my frosting on!
Melissa says
That looks like a very great recipe that can be adapted for all holidays and occasions o thank you and when the e is right I will try this one. Great job for St. Patrick’s day style .
Reesa Lewandowski says
These look so awesome! I am always jealous of people who can make cookies because I am horrible at sugar cookies and frosting them!
Gabriel says
My wife’s birthday is St. Patty’s Day, I bet she’ll love these, who needs diamonds?
Tara Noland says
LOL Garbriel, I am sure she would love the cookies!!