Easy St Patrick’s Day Cookies

This festive and oh-so-easy St Patrick’s Day Cookie Recipe is a fantastic holiday baking recipe to make with the kids. These yummy green cookies are made using a cake mix crinkle cookie recipe so they couldn’t be easier to make!

St Patrick’s Day Cookies

Can you believe February is already over? Thankfully, the weather is starting to warm up and our Spring Break is just around the corner.

St Patrick’s Day is one of our favorite holidays to craft and bake for and “lucky” for us, the holiday always falls during spring break. Rainbows, leprechauns, pots o’ gold, the color green, etc…  what could be better when it comes to crafting and baking? These St. Patrick’s Day Cookies definitely need to go to the top of your baking list!

This year, I’ve decided on these Easy St Patrick-themed Crinkle Cookies. We’ve already made them once (a little early, I know…but who really needs an excuse for cookies?!) and I know we’ll be making them again closer to St Patrick’s Day.

A Great Cookie Recipe to Make With Kids

Everyone loves these St. Patrick’s Day Crinkle Cookies, and bonus, they’re an easy cookie recipe to bake with kids. Personally, I love easy cookie and cake recipes that start with a box of cake mix. It’s the best baking hack ever! Makes the mixing and stirring so much easier because there’s no need for ten different ingredients spread out across the counter.

Other than eating the cookies (of course), the kid’s favorite part of making them is plopping the dough into the bowls of sugar and rolling them into balls. (Except for the multiple times I caught my son licking the sugar off the unbaked cookies – yep, those cookies were his, lol.)

The cookies are so delicious – soft and chewy, just the way I like them.

Besides the cake mix, there are only 4 other ingredients so these might just take the award for easiest cookies ever. The food coloring could even be switched from green to another color to make these festive and appropriate for other celebrations as well.

St Patrick’s Day Cookies Ingredients + Notes

(Ingredients at a glance, you’ll find the full recipe with ingredient amounts in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post.)

• Box of white cake mix | I  prefer Betty Crocker cake mix, but any white or vanilla cake mix will work
• Eggs | Eggs should be at room temperature for best results. Eggs make the crinkle cookies chewy and help bind everything together.
• Vegetable oil | Oil gives the cookie a tender, slightly chewy texture. You can sub with a different oil (like olive or coconut) but keep in mind the oil may affect flavor. 
• Confectioners sugar | You will roll the cookie balls in sugar before baking.
• Optional (but recommended) | Green food color. For best results, I like to use the Wilton Gel Colors.

How to Make these St Patrick’s Day Crinkle Cookies

You’ll love how simple these cookies are to make!

1. Preheat the oven to 375.
2. Mix cookie ingredients together. Chill dough for 15 to 30 minutes.
3. Using a 2 tbsp cookie scoop, drop the cookie dough into the powdered sugar, and roll into balls coating the cookie balls completely with powdered sugar.
4. Place cookies onto a cookie sheet and slightly flatten with the bottom of a glass.
5. Cook for 7-9 minutes or until the edges start to slightly brown.
6. Allow the cookies to cool before serving.

Recipe Tips:

• Don’t skip the chilling, the cookies will be difficult to shape into balls and may turn out flatter than desired.
• Scoop the dough with a cookie scoop and immediately drop it into the bowl of sugar before rolling. This will keep your hands from getting too sticky. Once shaped into a ball, give the ball a final roll in the sugar for the best coverage and prettiest result.
• Don’t overbake these St Patrick’s Day Cookies, they should be very soft when they’re done. If you overbake (while still yummy) they will come out more cake-like.
• Use a silicone baking mat to keep the bottoms of your cookies from getting too brown.
• Secret tip to keep the powdered sugar from melting away: If you want a heavy coating of powdered sugar on your cookies after baking, this extra step gives amazing results. Roll your cookie dough balls in a bowl of granulated sugar first. Then roll again in the confectioner’s sugar for that heavy finished coat of powdered sugar.

Cookie Variations

The best part about this cookie recipe is that you can use any flavor of cake mix.

• Make lemon cookies using a lemon cake mix.
• Chocolate cake mix for fudgy chocolate crinkle cookies.
• Strawberry Cake Mix Crinkle Cookies for Valentine’s Day.
• Vanilla cake mix plus any flavor extract with your favorite gel food color for a custom cookie.
• Add mint extract, chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, nuts, dried fruit or sprinkles.

FAQ’s

Want more green/St. Patty’s Day recipes? Be sure to check these out!

• Pinch Proof Rice Krispy Treats
• Green Eggs and Ham Recipe (mini frittatas)
• Mint Chocolate Fudge Recipe
• Easy Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Pie Recipe

If you’re looking for a fun, non-alcoholic way to celebrate the holiday or an easy cookie recipe to make any time, definitely try these St Patty’s Day Crinkle Cookies. You’ll love how yummy they taste and how quickly they disappear from your plate!

Recommended tools

• Cookie Scoop (for evenly shaped cookies)
• Cookie sheet (Use a cookie sheets that is a light in color. Dark pans absorb more heat and can cause your cookies to overbake.)
• Silicone baking mat

Tried this St Patrick’s Day Cookie recipe?

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