Circus Animal Sprinkle Cookies are a twist on a childhood favorite treat. This cookie is buttery, chewy and full of colorful sprinkles. It’s then iced with a silky, white chocolate buttercream frosting and finished with more sprinkles!
I Love Chocolate
I am what you call a girl who loves chocolate.
Milk, dark, semi-sweet.
I pretty much love it all when it comes to desserts, especially cookies.
My all time favorite cookies are my Big and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies.
I don’t have very many vanilla based recipes on my site, but I am extremely excited about these Circus Animal Cookies!
Recently a friend brought over a dozen assorted cookies from a well known cookie bakery and it included their version of this cookie. I hadn’t ever seen anything like it before.
Because it wasn’t chocolate, I didn’t give it a second thought until it was the last cookie in the box. Crazy, right?!
I finally gave it a try and let me tell you. It was incredible! I knew immediately I needed to recreate it and so here we are.
It is buttery with all the right amount of chewiness every fabulous cookie has. I love all the sprinkles in the cookie and scattered over the top of the frosting.
The original Circus Animal cookie placed on top is the purely to drive home everyone’s childhood favorite treat. It’s not necessary, but I just love the way it looks.
I might have to admit, that I love my version of this cookie. So many of you have already reached out to me that you are super excited about this cookie so I hope you love the recipe as much as I do!
In a large bowl cream together butter and granulated sugar for 2 minutes on medium speed.
Add in eggs and vanilla and mix until well blended.
In a separate bowl whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda and salt then slowly add to the wet ingredients.
Blend until the flour is halfway incorporated. You don’t want to over mix the dough.
Add in the sprinkles and finish mixing until the flour is just incorporated.
Using a large cookie scoop* or 1/4 cup measuring cup, scoop dough and evenly space out 6 onto a large baking sheet. I like to set them 2, then 1, 2 and 1.
Bake for 12-14 minutes or until lightly golden brown on the bottom.
Cool for 10 minutes before frosting.
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This cookie is buttery, chewy and full of colorful sprinkles. It's then iced with a silky, white chocolate buttercream frosting and finished with more sprinkles!
In a large bowl cream together butter and granulated sugar for 2 minutes on medium speed.
Add in eggs and vanilla and mix until well blended.
In a separate bowl whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda and salt then slowly add to the wet ingredients.
Blend until the flour is halfway incorporated. You don’t want to over mix the dough.
Add in the sprinkles and finish mixing until the flour is just incorporated.
Using a large cookie scoop* or 1/4 cup measuring cup, scoop dough and evenly space out 6 onto a large baking sheet. I like to set them 2, then 1, 2 and 1.
Bake for 12-14 minutes or until lightly golden brown on the bottom.
Cool for 10 minutes before frosting.
FOR FROSTING
In a large stand mixer cream butter and 1 cup of powdered sugar together for 1 minute.
In a microwave, melt together white chocolate and milk together for 30 seconds at a time until melted. About 1 minute total. Stop and stir it every 10 seconds as to not over heat it.
Add this into the butter and mix until smooth.
Add in vanilla.
Sprinkle in the remaining powdered sugar and mix until smooth and creamy.
If you frosting is too thick add in 1 tablespoon of milk at a time until it is spreadable.
If your frosting is too thin you can add in a bit more powdered sugar.
Spread each cookie with frosting and immediately sprinkle with sprinkle so they will stick to the frosting.
Press one Mother's Circus Animal Cookie into the center of the frosting.
Calling all Circus Animals, we've lost control of the frosting hose! Our classic shortbread cookies are scrumptiously covered in our irresistible pink and white frosting and tossed with sprinkles. The iconic shapes include lions, elephants, camels, rhinos, hippos, cows, and pigs.
In total, 53 different animals have been featured in Barnum's Animals Crackers since 1902. The current cookies are bear, bison, camel, cougar, elephant, giraffe, gorilla, hippopotamus, hyena, kangaroo, koala, lion, monkey, rhinoceros, seal, sheep, tiger, and zebra.
N.M. named the cookies Mother's in honor of the brand new holiday, Mother's Day! These are the iconic Circus Animal Cookies you know and love, and soon they became a hit.
The company suffered an accounting scandal in 2008 and in October 2008, the company became a victim of the financial crisis of 2007–2010 when the company filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and laid off all of its workers.
While the types of animals used vary from circus to circus, big cats (namely lions, tigers, and leopards), foxes, wolves, polecats, minks, weasels, camels, llamas, elephants, zebras, horses, donkeys, birds (like parrots and doves), sea lions, bears, monkeys, and domestic animals such as cats and dogs are the most ...
The animal crackers that we're familiar with today were first made in England in the mid-1800s. They were slightly sweet biscuits shaped like animals. For a while they were imported to the United States, but in 1871 the D.F. Stauffer Biscuit Company in York, Pennsylvania, started producing them.
You may have wondered why each animal cracker has a small hole in it — these are known as “dockers,” made during the baking process to keep the dough from rising. Before Barnum's replaced its trademark string with a fold-out cardboard handle, six thousand miles of it were used on the boxes annually.
Sad, sad economic news: Mother's Cookies has shut down. Mother's produced Iced Oatmeal cookies, Mini Chocolate Chip cookies, and the grand old favorite of many, the Iced Circus Animal cookies. The iconic company started out as a one-man shop in Oakland, CA, by a newspaper vendor from San Francisco.
The string was originally intended to allow Barnum's fans to use the colorful little box as a Christmas ornament. When the snack was first released, the charming snack-sized boxes were considered to be revolutionary, as the cookie-cracker hybrids were previously sold in cracker barrels or big tins.
These cookies look like they would be incredibly sweet, seeing as how they're completely covered in icing. Somehow, they've actually managed to balance the sweetness so that it isn't overpowering. I love the sprinkles on top, which give the cookie a nice little added crunch. They're great to satisfy a sweet craving!
These tasty, time-tested treats were first produced in England in the late 19th century. Animal crackers became increasingly popular in the United States after merchants began importing them.
Girl Scouts won't sell the Raspberry Rally this cookie season. The Girl Scouts are discontinuing a popular cookie just a year after its debut sparked a frenzy. Raspberry Rally won't be sold this upcoming cookie-sales season, which runs January to April 2024, Girl Scouts of the USA has announced.
This little treat occupies a unique spot in Girl Scout cookie history. It arrived in 2023; it was the first cookie available exclusively online, and by 2024, it was gone. Raspberry Rally was a raspberry-flavored cookie dipped in the same chocolate as the fan-favorite Thin Mints.
These cookies were lemony wedges coated with powdered sugar and were available from 2011 to 2019. The precursor to Savannah Smiles was the Lemon Coolers, a reduced-fat bite-sized cookie that lasted from 2003 to 2006. When Savannah Smiles was discontinued, Lemon-Ups took their place and are still sold today.
Our classic shortbread cookies meet enchanted legendary figures. These yummy, sparkly mermaids, unicorns, dragons, and sea serpents are fabulously coated in purple and white frosting and coated in glittery sprinkles.
Rhesus Macaque monkeys are the most common species used in circuses. In the wild, these intelligent animals spend up to 9 hours exploring their homes (which can be an area of 15km²), travelling over 3km in a day [5, 6].
Bred by the Canadian seed bank BC Bud Depot, the indica-leaning Animal Cookies is a cross between Fire OG and an award-winning cut of GSC (formerly Girl Scout Cookies), which won the 2013 High Times Medical Cannabis Cup in Los Angeles.
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Introduction: My name is Kerri Lueilwitz, I am a courageous, gentle, quaint, thankful, outstanding, brave, vast person who loves writing and wants to share my knowledge and understanding with you.
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