Four Leaf Clover Sugar Cookies
These four leaf clover sugar cookies start with soft vanilla cutout cookies, frosted with fluffy green and white vanilla buttercream for St. Patrick's Day.
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Equipment
- Four Leaf Clover Cookie Cutters (or Shamrock cookie cutters)
- 12-Inch Disposable Piping Bags + Couplers
- Piping Tips, (1M, 18, 32, 68)
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Vanilla Cutout Cookies
- 3x recipe Vanilla American Buttercream
- gel food coloring (forest green, leaf green, turquoise, warm brown)
- electric green sparkling sugar and gold sugar pearls
Instructions
Cookies
- Make the vanilla cookie dough and bake the cookies as instructed, using any size/shape of four leaf clover cookie cutters or shamrock (three leaf clover) cookie cutters you like.
- Handle the baked cookies gently; let cool completely before decorating.
Buttercream
- Make 3x the recipe for Vanilla American Buttercream.
- Remove 1/4 of the buttercream to keep it white.
- Use gel food coloring to color the remaining buttercream green. I used 10 drops of "forest green", 20 drops of "turquoise", 2 drops of "leaf green", and 4 drops of "warm brown".
Decorating
- To decorate my cookies, I used piping tips 1M, 18, 32, and 68. When filling the piping bag, I alternated the green buttercream with smaller amounts of white buttercream, to add more variegation in color. See the video in the recipe card for a decorating tutorial!
- After piping on the buttercream, I finished decorating the cookies with a little electric green sparkling sugar and a few gold sugar pearls.
Video
Notes
Store the decorated cookies in a single layer in an airtight container at room temperature for up to one week, in the refrigerator for up to two weeks, or in the freezer for up to 3-6 months.
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