Minion Drop Cookies
These Minion drop cookies are soft, frosted cookies decorated to look like everyone’s favorite yellow movie characters. They’re perfect for kids' Minion-themed birthday parties, movie nights, and summer baking fun.
Equipment
Ingredients
Drop Cookies
- ¼ cup Butter room temperature
- 3 tablespoons Cream Cheese room temperature
- ½ cup White Granulated Sugar
- 1 Large Egg Yolk
- 1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
- 2-3 drops Cornflower Blue Icing Gel
- 1 ¼ cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 tablespoon Cornstarch
- ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
- ⅛ teaspoon Salt
Buttercream Frosting
- ½ cup Butter room temperature
- 1 ¼ cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
- 2 tablespoons Milk
- Yellow Icing Gel
- Black Icing Gel
- Edible Googly Eyes
Instructions
Drop Cookies
- In a stand mixer, cream together butter, cream cheese, and sugar. Add egg yolk, vanilla extract, and blue food color or icing gel.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Slowly add to the wet ingredients in the mixer until combined.
- Using a 1.5-tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop mounds of cookie dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Place in the refrigerator for 1 hour. This prevents spreading while they bake.
- Preheat the oven to 375℉. Bake the cookies in the oven for 12-14 minutes until set.
Buttercream Frosting
- Add butter to a stand mixer with a whisk attachment. Whip the butter for 3-4 minutes, until it begins to get light in color, almost white. Slowly add powdered sugar. Add vanilla extract and 1-2 tablespoons of milk until it reaches the desired consistency.
- Reserve 3-4 tablespoons of frosting and add black icing gel to it to create a gray colored frosting. Add to an icing bag with a Wilton #1 or #2 icing tip.
- Add yellow icing gel to the remaining bulk of the frosting to make it bright yellow.
- Let the frosting chill in the fridge until ready to use.
- Once the cookies are fully cooled, use a 1-tablespoon cookie scoop or spoon to add a dollop of yellow frosting to the top of each cookie.
- Add dots of gray frosting to the yellow frosting to add googly eyes to each cookie and create the look of goggles. Draw mouths and hair with gray frosting.
Nutrition
Calories: 220kcalCarbohydrates: 27gProtein: 2gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.4gCholesterol: 44mgSodium: 168mgPotassium: 26mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 18gVitamin A: 380IUCalcium: 21mgIron: 1mg