Description
These Graduation Cap & Diploma Sugar Cookies feature a delightful blend of flavors with a soft texture, making them perfect for celebrations. With easy ingredients like butter, sugar, and white chocolate, they are a tasty treat that everyone will enjoy!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups all purpose flour (plus more if needed)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup butter (softened slightly)
- 3/4 cups sugar
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 16 ounces white chocolate
- 1/3 cup light corn syrup (plus more if needed)
- food coloring (flesh tone and other color for your grad caps)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Mix flour, salt, and baking powder in a bowl and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Stir in egg, vanilla, and almond extract.
- Add dry ingredients and stir just until combined.
- If the dough is sticky, add a small amount of flour.
- Roll out the dough on a floured surface to 1/8th inch thickness.
- Cut twelve 3-inch circles from the dough.
- Cut out twelve diamond-shaped grad caps from the dough.
- Use the cutter to make a notch in each circle of dough.
- Brush two long edges of the diamond-shaped dough and insert it into the notch.
- Press the seams together with your finger.
- Bake for 10-14 minutes until edges are set and tops look dry.
- Cool cookies completely before decorating.
- Reserve about 2 tablespoons of white modeling chocolate for tassels.
- Color 2/3 of the modeling chocolate flesh tone and the rest in your chosen color.
- Let the colored chocolate rest at room temperature for about 30 minutes.
- Roll out flesh tone chocolate to 1/16th inch thickness and cut twelve 3-inch circles.
- Roll out blue chocolate to the same thickness and cut diamond-shaped caps.
- Brush corn syrup over a cookie and place the colored circle and diamond, pressing seams together.
- Roll modeling chocolate into a tube and use a clay extruder to create tassel strands.
- Attach the strands to the caps using corn syrup, creating a cute tassel finish.
Notes
Feel free to customize the colors of your grad caps to match your school colors!
Ensure cookies are completely cooled before decorating to avoid melting the chocolate.
Store decorated cookies in an airtight container for freshness.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 80mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 21g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 20mg