Chewy Funfetti Cookies
April 16, 2011 § 46 Comments
Cookies, frosting, sprinkles, oh my! The recipe I am about to share with you is the latest addition to the Cake Batter Craze that is currently running rampant in Blog World. Prepare to be amazed! 
I’ve already had the honor of enjoying things like Cake Batter Cinnamon Rolls, Cake Batter Pancakes, and even a Cake Batter Smoothie, but they paled in comparison to something new I tried a few weeks ago. Funfetti cookies.
I was at my little cousin’s play and afterwards there was a refreshment table with a variety of cookies, brownies, and cupcakes. Never one to pass up free food, I grabbed a plate and began piling a few cookies on my plate. The lady behind me in line informed me that the cookies I took were Funfetti cookies and that they were really good. This sparked my interest. Once I got back to my seat I picked up a cookie and took the first bite. Delicious. I took another and another, savoring each bite until my little plate of three Funfetti cookies was empty. At that very moment, I promised myself I was going to recreate those cookies and, two weeks later, I did. 
That night I came home and Googled “Funfetti Cookie Recipes” and was shocked to discover that there were no recipes out there that didn’t use a boxed cake mix. I had to change that! As I began mixing up the batter, I felt like a pioneer. The First Person To Make Funfetti Cookies From Scratch; I deserve a medal. Anyone agree? Don’t worry, you will once you try these cookies.
Chewy Funfetti Cookies
“The first recipe for homemade Funfetti cookies. Once you make these, you’ll never go back to using a boxed mix!”
Ingredients:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 4 eggs
- ¾ cup canola oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup sprinkles
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF and grease a large baking sheet, set aside.
- Place all dry ingredients, except sprinkles, in a large bowl and stir until combined. Place all wet ingredients in a separate bowl, and stir until combined.
- Pour wet ingredient mixture into the dry ingredient mixture and stir. Do not overmix! Fold in sprinkles.
- Roll cookie dough into golf ball-sized balls. Place on the greased cookie sheet, leaving 1 inch between balls. Bake for 12-15 minutes. Let cool.
Yield: 2 ½ dozen cookies
Buttercream Glaze
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
Directions:
- Place all ingredients in a small bowl.
- Mix well and drizzle over cooled cookies.
I took my first bite of a cookie while it was hot out of the oven. It was so chewy, moist, and delicious that it would be wrong not to have another. They taste almost exactly like the Funfetti cookies I had the honor of trying a few weeks ago. I drool at the memory…
Those cookies look amazing. I am prone to the cake batter pancakes which I had been making a lot recently. I love cake patter and funfetti everything.
Cake batter cookies?!? Ahhh!!!! Those look AMAZING!! Sprinkles make everything better
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OH. MY. GOSH.
Every recipe I see on your blog just gets better and better! These cookies look amazing! I love the chewiness of funfetti cookies…and this buttercream glaze looks stellar!
GREAT job, you pioneer!
Talk to you soon!
Ahhh. These are so tempting to make right now.
these look SO tasty!! i love the fun colors!!
You are so cute! These look amazing
I am amazed! Looks sooooo delish~!
How yum!!! Cookies and funfetti were made for eachother
Funfetti cookies? Um, yes, you sure do deserve a medal! Those sound amazing!
I also love how you were able to make them without the box mix.
Ah these are so happy!
I love it! And I love the picture of the sprinkles 
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Sounds good to me!
Cake batter cookies sound delicious to me and i wish I had one right now!
I so wish I could make these because they are seriously calling me. Unfortunately, my oven exploded and I have to stick to no-bake treats :S
So awesome that you made these from scratch despite there being no recipe! I love that! thanks for the lovely comment on my blog btw. Glad I made it over to your site, it looks pretty tasty!
Those look fantastic
Um these look delicious, Erika! And I love the photos!
I love sprinkles
They just make me smile, as do these cookies.
These look too good to be true! Seriously… I wish one of these was in front of me. I suddenly have a major cookie craving
Well done you for baking from scratch! There were two things I didn’t know before I went to America and started reading American blogs: 1) What funfetti was, and 2) that people actually use cake mixes. I honestly couldn’t/don’t understand why people would!
Funfetti!!!
Love it! Love your recipe
have a great rest of the weekend!
My kiddos would go crazy for these super cute cookies!
Holy sprinkles!! I love anything with sprinkles. These cookies are so pretty and cute, great job!!
Excellent post thanks for sharing. Food is something I can enjoy all around. If I’m not eating it. I’m reading and looking at pictures about it.
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Yum!! I love how sprinkles make everything so colorful and fun!
Girl, these are so pretty!!! My little cousins would go nuts over these colors!
Erika, those are SO CUTE!!!
Sprinkles make everything better! 
Ah these are so fun! I love that you did it without the boxed mix. They look perfectly pretty and cake-like
Thanks for sharing!
I know I can be more articulate sometimes, but all I need to relay to you is this: “AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!”
[I'm hungry]
Mmm! Those are so adorable girl! I want to make those! I want to make sprinkle EVERYTHING! ahaha
oh, and can you email me what type of camera you have, pretty please?
Sure thing!
They’re so colorful!
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I made these. They were pretty close to the boxed Funfetti cookies but the batter was really way to sticky. I still like the box ones better, but these were really close to them.
Trying these tomorrow, was going to make funfetti cookies with the boxed cake mix but looked at the ingredients and saw they have TRANS FAT! Gross. That stuff never leaves your body.
Anyway, thanks for posting this!!
Let me know how you like them!
I just made these and took my first bite and yum!! I didn’t put any sprinkles in the batter because I didn’t have enough (my boyfriend likes to eat them plain!). Also for some reason the only pan I could find after moving was one with crusted on meat leftovers on it, so I just put some tin foil down, dull(er) side up, oiled that and cooked them for 12 minutes and they came out perfect! No dark brown on the bottle at all. Also, my “glaze” was more of a frosting, but no worries cause I spread it in there anyways and topped with sprinkles. Thank you for the recipe!
Thanks for sharing these. It was a great start to SRC!
ive been looking for these everywhere! thanks for the no box recipe!
These cookies look ah-mazing! You definitely deserve a medal
Confetti cake is my favorite cake, and I have never thought of making cookies like this. Surprisingly, I haven’t seen the box kind either. My kids will love these!
Yumm! I must try these
is it ok if i increase the amount of sprinkles to 3/4-1 cup?
Good,but too sweet for me!
has anybody ACTUALLY made them?? Yes they look delicious but do they taste that way??