Description
These Graduation Cap & Diploma Sugar Cookies are perfect for celebrating achievements! With their irresistible flavor and simple preparation using butter, white chocolate, and vanilla extract, they are a must for your next graduation party. Enjoy homemade goodness with every bite!
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 the oven to 350°F.
- In a bowl, mix the flour, salt, and baking powder, and set aside.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Stir in the egg, vanilla extract, and almond extract.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
- If the dough is sticky, add a little more flour.
- Roll out the cookie dough on a floured surface to about 1/8 inch thick.
- Cut twelve 3-inch circles from the dough.
- Cut out twelve diamond-shaped grad caps from the dough.
- Use the diamond-shaped cutter to cut a notch in each circle of dough.
- Brush two edges of the diamond-shaped dough with corn syrup and insert it into the notch in the circle.
- Press the seams together with your finger.
- Bake for 10-14 minutes until the edges are set and tops are no longer wet.
- Let cookies cool completely before decorating.
- Reserve about 2 tablespoons of white modeling chocolate to color for tassels.
- Color 2/3 of the modeling chocolate with flesh tone food coloring and the rest with the color of your choice for the grad caps.
- Allow the colored modeling chocolate to rest at room temperature for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the flesh tone chocolate to about 1/16 inch thick and cut out twelve 3-inch circles.
- Repeat with the colored modeling chocolate for the grad caps.
- For each cookie, brush a light coating of corn syrup on top, place a circle and cap on the cookie, and press to seal.
- For tassels, roll modeling chocolate into tubes, extrude, and cut strands as needed.
- Pinch strands together and attach with corn syrup to complete the tassels.
Notes
For precise cookie shapes, use a ruler for measurements.
Ensure cookies are completely cooled before decorating to prevent melting.
Decorate creatively with different colors for each grad cap!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 180
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 26g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 20mg