Soft Cotton Candy Cookies (Gender Reveal Cookies)
You will love this new recipe for pink and blue Gender Reveal Cookies with cotton candy flavor! These colorful cotton candy cookies are surprisingly easy to make and taste like cotton candy! Perfect for Gender Reveals, Baby Showers, Birthday Parties or even Easter!
Gender Reveal Cookies
Gender reveal custom cookies may be expensive but these festive pink and blue sugar cookies are perfect for gender reveal cookies or even a baby shower cookies and you can easily make them yourself! Reveal the fun news of the baby’s gender with a cake, a balloon pop, smoke bombs, etc.
There are so many ways people are doing gender reveals these days but these gender reveal sugar cookies go with all of them! If you want to make them even more fancy, pipe some frosting on top of the cookie.
The white frosting would be gender-neutral, but you could go with blue or pink frostings to add more color or even both on each cookie with a cotton candy swirl. Frosting or not, these are easy gender-reveal cookies!
Baby Shower Cookies
These pink and blue cookies would be perfect gender-neutral baby shower or for a boy-girl twins birthday party or baby shower!
Cotton Candy Sugar Cookies
Adding cotton candy flavoring to these cookies makes them not only cute for a baby gender reveal, but also delicious! I mean, who doesn’t love the flavor of cotton candy sugar? When you bite into a chewy cookie, you will flash back to your childhood and sweet memories with the flavor of real cotton candy!
The idea for these came from a Cotton Candy Crumbl Cookie but instead of topping a plain sugar cookie with cotton candy buttercream, I made pink and blue cookies with cotton candy flavor (buttercream optional).
Equipment Needed
- Electric Hand Mixer or Stand Mixer with paddle attachment
- 2 Mixing Bowls
- 2 Spoons
- Large Cookie Scoop, 2-Tbsp is best (optional)
- Baking Sheet
- Parchment Paper
Ingredients
The ingredients for this sugar cookie recipe are all staple pantry ingredients except maybe the cotton candy flavoring which you can order online here if you can’t find it in stores.
- Butter, softened to room temperature
- Granulated Sugar
- Large Egg
- Cotton Candy Extract
- Vanilla Extract
- Flour
- Baking Powder
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Pink Food Coloring*
- Blue Food Coloring*
*I used Rose & Sky Blue from this Gel Colors Food Coloring Set.
Find the complete recipe with ingredients measurements in the recipe card below.se
Substitutions
If you don’t love the nostalgic flavors of cotton candy, you could use vanilla and/or almond extracts instead and but still have the fun colors of cotton candy and use the cookies for gender reveal celebrations!
How to Make Gender Reveal Cookies
This cotton candy cookies recipe is really easy and they are perfect for gender reveal cookies!
- Preheat your oven to 375℉ and line your baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until soft and fluffy, then stir in the egg and extracts.
- Add all of the dry ingredients and stir until it forms a dough. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed to completely combine it.
- Divide the sugar cookie dough into two bowls and add a few drops of blue food coloring to one bowl of dough and a few drops of pink to the other. Stir both doughs with their own spoons to make two different colored doughs.
- Carefully fill half of your cookie scoop with one colored dough and fill the other half with the other color for each cotton candy cookie, and then place on your baking sheet 2-3 inches apart, there should not be more than 6 cookie dough balls on a tray as they do expand quite a bit. Continue making cookie dough balls like this until you run out of dough.
- Bake for 11-12 minutes and allow to cool slightly before enjoying.
Pro Tip
Want to reveal the gender of the baby with cookies? Use this cotton candy cookie recipe but add frosting! Color some vanilla frosting blue or pink for the baby’s gender. Flip a cookie upside down and pipe a small amount in the center of the cookie. Then use another cookie to sandwich them together to hide the frosting in the middle of the cookie. When they’re bitten into – the gender of the baby will be revealed!
Serving Suggestions
These pretty blue and pink cookies can add a touch of whimsy to so many celebrations.
- Gender Reveal Party
- Baby Shower
- Carnival Themed Birthday Party
- Easter Celebrations
Storage Directions
Store in an airtight container for up to 4-5 days.
FAQs
You will know when these are done baking when they start to golden on the bottom. 10-12 minutes should be plenty of time, leave them on the cookie sheet to finish baking for about 3-5 minutes after pulling them out of the oven as they’ll be very soft. If you try baking them past 12 minutes then the color of the cookies may start to become unsaturated, or less colorful.
Store in an airtight container for up to 4-5 days.
If you don’t have a cookie scoop then simply use a tablespoon and roll together 1 tablespoon of each color dough into a ball to place on your cookie sheets.
The cotton candy extract certainly makes these cookies taste more like cotton candy, but you can still make these cookies without it. They’ll still look like cotton candy cookies, they’ll just simply taste like vanilla cookies instead.
Yes, to make dairy free cotton candy cookies, simply use plant-based butter in place of the dairy butter to make these dairy free.
More Delicious Recipes
Gender Reveal Cookies (Soft Cotton Candy Cookies)
- Total Time: 27 minutes
- Yield: 18 1x
Description
You will love this new recipe for pink and blue Gender Reveal Cookies with cotton candy flavor! These colorful cotton candy cookies are surprisingly easy to make and taste like cotton candy! Perfect for Gender Reveals, Baby Showers or Birthday Parties!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Butter, softened
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 Large Egg
- 1 teaspoon Cotton Candy Flavoring Extract
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 1/2 cups Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 2–3 drops Pink Food Coloring
- 2–3 drops Blue Food Coloring
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375℉ and line your baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until soft and fluffy, then stir in the egg and extracts.
- Add all of the dry ingredients and stir until it forms a dough.
- Divide the dough into 2 bowls and add a few drops of blue food coloring to one bowl of dough and a few drops of pink to the other and stir both doughs with their own spoons to make two different colored doughs.
- Carefully fill half of your cookie scoop with one colored dough and fill the other half with the other color, and then place on your baking sheet 2-3 inches apart, there should not be more than 6 cookie dough balls on a tray as they do expand quite a bit. Continue making cookie dough balls like this until you run out of dough.
- Bake for about 12 minutes and allow to cool slightly before enjoying.
Notes
- Store in an airtight container for up to 4-5 days.
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 12
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
They turned out so cute!