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birthday candle cookies decorated with blue and white stripes and a yellow flame made from Sixlets chocolate candies.
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Birthday Candle Cookies
Prep Time
45 mins
Cook Time
12 mins
Chill Time
15 mins
 

Decorate large birthday candle cookies with frosting and colorful candy-coated chocolate Sixlets candies. It's easy and fun!

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: birthday cake, cookies
Servings: 24
Calories: 300 kcal
Author: Beth Klosterboer
Ingredients
  • 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix OR two (8.5 oz.) pouches
  • ¼ cup all purpose flour
  • ⅓ cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tub vanilla frosting (16 ounces)
  • 336 purple Sixlets
  • 336 white Sixlets
  • 160 yellow Sixlets
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
  2. In a mixing bowl, combine cookie mix, flour, butter, and egg.  Stir to combine.
  3. Divide the dough into 4 varying sizes.
  4. Roll out one piece of dough in between two layers of parchment paper creating a long log.
  5. Then cut out a 10-inch, 12-inch, 14-inch or 16-inch long by 3-inch wide candle.

  6. Roll a ball of dough into a curved teardrop shape and press it on one end of the log to create the candle flame.

  7. Pick up the parchment paper and set your candle-shaped cookies a baking sheet.

  8. Repeat, making 3 more candles of varying sizes.

  9. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.

  10. Bake each cookie for 8-15 minutes until lightly golden brown around the edges. The bake time will vary based on the size of the cookie.
  11. Remove the cookies from oven and allow them to cool for about 2 minutes. Trim around each cookie to straighten out the edges.
  12. Allow the cookies to cool completely before frosting.
  13. Once cooled, spread and even layer of frosting over the cookie.
  14. Arrange colored Sixlets in slanted rows across the cookies.
  15. Then, arrange yellow Sixlets over the flame.
Recipe Notes

Store your cookie at room temperature for up to 5 days if using a tub of frosting or up to 3 days if you used homemade frosting. The Sixlets will soften as they sit, so I suggest making these birthday candle cookies a day before you plan to serve them.