Description
These Graduation Cap & Diploma Sugar Cookies are a delightful treat, combining sweet flavors with festive decoration. Perfect for celebrating achievements, these handmade cookies are easy to make and will impress everyone at your graduation party!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups all purpose flour (plus more if needed)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup butter (softened slightly)
- 3/4 cups sugar
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 16 ounces white chocolate
- 1/3 cup light corn syrup (plus more if needed)
- food coloring (flesh tone and other color for your grad caps)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Mix the flour, salt, and baking powder together in a bowl and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Stir in egg, vanilla, and almond extract.
- Add dry ingredients and stir just until combined.
- If the dough is sticky, add a small amount of flour.
- Roll out cookie dough on a floured surface to about 1/8 inch thickness.
- Cut twelve 3-inch circles out of the cookie dough.
- Cut out twelve diamond-shaped grad caps out of the dough.
- Use the diamond-shaped cookie cutter to cut a triangle notch out of the circle of dough.
- Brush two long edges of the diamond-shaped dough and insert it into the notch in the circle of dough, pressing the seams together.
- Bake for 10-14 minutes until the edges look set and the tops no longer look wet.
- Allow cookies to cool completely before decorating.
- Reserve about 2 tablespoons of white modeling chocolate to color for the tassels.
- Color 2/3 of the white modeling chocolate using flesh-tone food coloring and the rest for your grad caps.
- Let the colored modeling chocolate rest at room temperature for about 30 minutes.
- Roll the flesh-tone modeling chocolate out to about 1/16 inch thickness and cut out twelve 3-inch circles.
- Roll out the colored modeling chocolate to the same thickness and cut out twelve diamond-shaped grad caps.
- Brush a light coating of corn syrup over a cookie and place the circle and diamond on top, pressing the seams together.
- Color the modeling chocolate for tassels and roll it into a tube, then extrude it for strands.
- Attach the strands to the grad cap using corn syrup, pinching together to secure.
Notes
For best results, ensure all ingredients are at room temperature before starting.
If the dough is sticking, dust your rolling surface and the dough lightly with flour as needed.
Experiment with different food coloring for creative grad cap designs.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 20mg