They’ll be after your Lucky Charms, specifically your Lucky Charms cookies, if you make these fun sugar cookies for St Patrick’s Day!
These chewy Lucky Charms cookies are the perfect treat for St Patrick’s Day. They combine classic sugar cookies with cereal bits. These are the perfect cookies for a St. Patrick’s Day party, after school treat, or any time of year. These colorful cookies can be as simple or as involved as you like. Use prepackaged dough, or make your own sugar cookies from scratch. Either way, these fun Lucky Charms cookies are sure to be a hit!
Why You’ll Love These Fun Lucky Charms Cookies
- They’re Festive – Who doesn’t love a themed dessert to celebrate a holiday?! These Lucky Charms cookies are the perfect low-effort dessert to make St Patrick’s Day more fun for the whole family.
- Easy to Make – These simple sugar cookies are easy to make, especially if you use a sugar cookie mix!
- Allergy Friendly – Lucky Charms is an oat cereal and is gluten-free and does not contain any of the 8 major food allergens. (See more information) If you use an allergen free sugar cookie recipe, then these Lucky Charm cookies are safe to eat.
Ingredients for Lucky Charms Cookies
- Sugar Cookie Mix – Keep this recipe easy and use a prepackaged sugar cookie mix! The mix saves time and doesn’t require as many ingredients as a homemade dough. Refrigerated sugar cookie dough is also a great alternative. Allow the dough to reach room temperature, or become slightly less cold, so the marshmallows can be mixed into it.
- Ingredients for Homemade Sugar Cookie Dough – All-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, unsalted butter, granulated sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract.
- Vanilla Icing – Top the cookies with vanilla icing so the cereal sticks to the tops. Use a prepackaged icing, or make homemade icing with powdered sugar, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream.
- Lucky Charms Cereal – You can’t have Lucky Charms cookies without Lucky Charms cereal on top! Use the General Mills Lucky Charms, or purchase a generic cereal with tasty marshmallow bits on the cereal aisle. You’ll also need about a cup of extra marshmallows to bake into the sugar cookies.
How to Make Lucky Charms Cookies
These special marshmallow cookies are an easy way to to get festive with the family for St Patrick’s Day. They are great for school lunch treats or family nights. The cereal flavor is delicious for any time of year, but these are especially great around St. Patrick’s Day.
Step One – Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Step Two – Prepare sugar cookie dough according to the package directions, the directions below, or a personal recipe. Mix a cup of Lucky Charms marshmallows into the dough.
Step Three – Scoop the dough into 1.5″ dough balls using a cookie scoop and arrange on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
Step Four – Bake the cookies according to the package directions or a personal recipe, until the edges of the cookie are a golden brown. Allow the cookies to cool completely on a cooling rack.
Step Five – Frost the tops of each cookie with vanilla icing. Then sprinkle the extra Lucky Charms cereal over the tops. Be sure each cookie has a few rainbow marshmallows on top!
Make Your Own Buttery Sugar Cookie Dough
1. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
2. In a separate large bowl, cream together butter and sugar using an electric hand mixer, or stand mixer. Then add the egg, egg yolks, and vanilla until everything is combined.
3. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until well mixed.
Make Homemade Vanilla Whipped Cream Frosting
Whip together powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream, and vanilla using an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Use the frosting immediately and do not store at room temperature.
How to Store Leftover Cookies
Leftover cookie storage depends on the type of icing you used. For prepackaged icing, store the cookies at room temperature in an airtight container for 3-5 days. For homemade icing, store the cookies in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week. The cereal on top will go stale before the cookies.
These easy St. Patrick’s Day cookies are a fun way to celebrate the holiday!
More Festive Foods for St. Patrick’s Day
Lucky Charms Cookies
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- cookie sheet
- parchment paper
- cooling rack optional
- electric mixer optional
Ingredients
- 17 1/2 oz sugar cookie mix
- 1 stick softened butter 1/2 cup
- 1 cup Lucky Charms cereal marshmallows
- 1/2 cup Lucky Charms cereal
Homemade Sugar Cookies
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 sticks softened butter unsalted
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp vanilla
Homemade Vanilla Whipped Cream Frosting
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Prepare sugar cookie dough according to the package directions, the directions below, or a personal recipe. Mix a cup of Lucky Charms marshmallows into the dough.
- Scoop dough into 1.5" dough balls using a cookie scoop and arrange on a lined baking sheet.
- Bake cookies 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
- Allow cookies to cool completely.
- Frost the tops of each cookie with vanilla icing.
- Sprinkle the extra Lucky Charms cereal over the tops.
Homemade Sugar Cookie Dough
- Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
- In a separate large bowl, cream together butter and sugar using an electric mixer. Add the egg, egg yolks, and vanilla and mix well.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until well-mixed.
Homemade Whipped Cream Frosting
- Whip together powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream, and vanilla using an electric mixer until stiff peaks form.
Just saved this on Pinterest, Ashley!! These cookies look amazing, and Lucky Charms are my fave!!
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