St. Patrick’s Day Sugar Cookies with a Clever Decorating Trick

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Let’s take a trip over the rainbow! These St. Patrick’s Day Sugar Cookies are making us feel luckier than ever.

Rainbows, gold coins, and leprechauns – oh my! Hey, everyone… Lisa here from Fabulous Habits and I’m back with another themed dessert. Did you see my Easter cupcakes and Valentine’s sugar cookies?

I was never one to go out to party on St. Patricks’s Day – even in my college days. Being more of a homebody, I was more keen on baking than drinking green beers with my peers. Lucky for me, my friends were the same way. In fact, we still enjoy spending time in the kitchen together.

For this year’s St. Patty’s celebrations, I opted for cut-out sugar cookies. I found the cutest clover-shaped cookie cutter and once I purchased it, I wanted to use it right away.

So roll up your sleeves – I’ve got the cookie recipe here for you…

How to Make St. Patrick’s Day Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

Gather your ingredients. See the complete ingredient list in the recipe card later in this post.

Sift Together

In a small bowl, sift together all of your dry ingredients: flour, baking powder and salt.

Mix It Up

Using an electric mixer, beat together butter, sugar and egg until creamy.

All Together Now

Add dry ingredients to your wet ingredients and continue mixing until batter forms.

Chill Out

Roll your batter into a ball and wrap in plastic. Chill for at least one hour.

Time to Prep

Remove cookie dough from the fridge and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Just Keep Rollin’

Dust a clean surface with flour. Also, sprinkle flour on a rolling pin.

Roll out cookie dough so that it’s about a quarter of an inch thick.

Give it Shape

Using a clover-shaped cookie cutter, cut 12 clover shapes out of your cookie dough. Place gently on lined baking sheet.

Baked and Golden

Bake cookies for 5-7 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Allow to cool completely on a wire rack.

Decoratin’ Time

The easy trick for making perfectly decorated St. Patrick’s Day sugar cookies is using fondant and the same cookie cutter you used to cut out your cookie.

Once the cookies are cool, roll out your fondant so that it’s about a quarter of an inch thick. Using the same cookie cutter, cut out 12 fondant clovers. Press one on each cookie.

Lucky Love

Using your red frosting, pipe out a small heart on each cookie. Serve and start feeling lucky.

What are your favourite St. Patrick’s traditions? What about St. Patty’s recipes? Tell me how you celebrate in the comments below.

St. Patrick's Day Sugar Cookies

Homemade sugar cookies fit for the luckiest celebration of them all!

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 7 minutes

Resting Time: 1 hr

Total Time: 27 minutes

Servings: 12 cookies

5 from 3 votes

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Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour (+ extra for rolling)
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• Pinch salt
• 1/4 cup butter (softened)
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg (large)
• 3 to 4 oz. green fondant
• red decorating frosting

Instructions

1. In a small bowl, sift together all of your dry ingredients: flour, baking powder and salt.

2. Using an electric mixer, beat together butter, sugar and egg until creamy.
   

3. Add dry ingredients to your wet ingredients and continue mixing until batter forms.
   

4. Roll your batter into a ball and wrap in plastic. Chill for at least one hour.
   

5. Remove cookie dough from the fridge and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
   

6. Dust a clean surface with flour. Also, sprinkle flour on a rolling pin.
   

7. Roll out cookie dough so that it’s about a quarter of an inch thick.
   

8. Using a clover-shaped cookie cutter, cut 12 clover shapes out of your cookie dough. Place gently on lined baking sheet.
   

9. Bake cookies for 5-7 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
   

10. Once the cookies are cool, roll out your fondant so that it’s about a quarter of an inch thick. Using the same cookie cutter, cut out 12 fondant clovers. Press one on each cookie.
    

11. Using your red frosting, pipe out a small heart on each cookie.
    

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