‘Sprinkles’ Articles at Sweetnicks

Colorful sugar cookies that are quick to bake up and perfect for any occasion.

Today it hit 95 degrees in New Jersey.

But that didn’t stop us from turning on our oven and heating up the kitchen.

Because, after all, there were cookies to be made.

I have a massive amount of sprinkles in my cupboard. From friends. From our end-of-year Girl Scout party. From a recent lake party I hosted. And from my own collection.

So it was fairly fortuitous that I spied these Confetti Sprinkle Sugar Cookies over on Annie’s Eats today.

A perfect use for some of our sprinkles.

And since Nick was hanging out with a friend, a good opportunity for Madeline and I to spend some time baking together.

Hot summer weather be darned.

I am a HUGE fan of any cookie recipe that does not require the dough to chill in the refrigerator. I just don’t have the patience for that, and rarely plan ahead enough to do that, and will routinely ignore any recipe that requires it. And, unfortunately, a lot of sugar cookie recipes need the dough chilled.

Not this one.

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This is the store where sprinkle and sugar dreams are made. I had completely forgotten all about this place until a friend mentioned it on Facebook recently. She’s another crazy baker like me and we’ve enjoyed swapping tips and sources back and forth. You know, she gets it. She made those adorable sparkly wedding dress cookies below. I asked her where she was getting all the cool sprinkles and sparkles and she reminded me about Candyland Crafts. We used to go to a fantastic Cuban restaurant that’s actually across the street from this place, but haven’t been there in ages and I had forgotten this baker’s heaven even existed. Thank goodness for Facebook!

I headed down there this past weekend with Madeline and as soon as I lugged her stroller up the three steps inside the front door and turned down the sprinkle aisle, I might have gasped. Just a little. Whatever sprinkle or sugar you need (or didn’t know you needed) is right there for the taking, and at bargain prices, most are $2 a bottle. Madeline’s eyes opened up wide as she took in all the colors (not just a color, but several shades of each color), and she put out her hands to ask for one. I gave her the ones that I was buying to hold and within minutes her lap was full, holding on to the bottles as tightly as she could.

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