The luckiest recipe of all is the one that makes it easy to include the whole family. Make these easy shamrock sugar cookies with just three ingredients including Pillsbury™ Refrigerated Sugar Cookie Dough. Have the kids put on their aprons to help shape, roll and bake each shamrock cookie into a festive St. Patrick’s Day treat! Kids can even swap the green sugar for a different color to make these treats perfect for other holidays.
3-Ingredient Shamrock Cookies
- Prep Time 40 min
- Total 40 min
- Ingredients 3
- Servings 21
Ingredients
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup green sugar
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir or knead in flour until well blended. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER COMBINING WITH FLOUR.) Work with half the dough at a time; refrigerate remaining dough until needed.
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Step2Shape dough into 70 (3/4-inch) balls; reserve 7 balls. Roll each of the remaining balls in green sugar. To form each shamrock, place 2 balls with sides touching and 1 ball on top on ungreased cookie sheets. For stems, divide each reserved ball into 3 pieces. Roll each piece into ball, then in green sugar; shape into a triangle. Place 1 triangle pointed side up at bottom of each cookie between 2 balls for stem.
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Step3Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
Nutrition
240
Calories
10g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
36g
Total Carbohydrate
21g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 240
- Calories from Fat
- 90
- Total Fat
- 10g
- 15%
- Saturated Fat
- 2 1/2g
- 12%
- Trans Fat
- 2 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 15mg
- 5%
- Sodium
- 130mg
- 5%
- Potassium
- 0mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 36g
- 12%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 21g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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