4th of July Donut Cookies

Donuts and cookies are two of my favorite treats. What if you can have the best of both worlds in one?

These 4th of July Donut Cookies are literally amazing. These donut shaped cookies are one of the most unique Cookie Recipes and will be the hit of your celebration.

Ready to see how easy these fourth of July cookies are to make?

Ingredients Needed to Make Donut Shaped Cookies

For the Cookies:

• 5 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups cold buttermilk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt

For the Chocolate Ganache:

• 1.2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream

For the Glaze:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 tablespoon whole milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Toppings:

• red white and blue sprinkles and candies

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First, let’s make the cookies. Grab your electric mixer, or standing mixer which is what I love to use, and mix in the butter and both sugars. Mix them over a medium speed until they are creamy and smooth.

Next. you want to add to the mixer bowl your eggs, buttermilk and the vanilla. Mix over medium speed until this is now smooth and creamy.

Take a large bowl and add all of your dry ingredients to it. Mix the dry ingredients together with a large spoon to ensure it is mixed well.

Now, you want to add about half of the dry ingredients to your wet ingredients that are in the standing mixer.

Mix over a low speed until the dry starts to mix with the wet ingredients. If you start off mixing at a speed that is too high, you are going to end up with a flour mess as the mixer will fling it all out of the mixing bowl. Ask me how I know. lol

Once that is well combine, add the final half of the dry ingredients to the bowl, again over a slower speed.

This dough will be a little sticky. This is normal.

Now you want to cover the bowl of cookie dough with clear plastic wrap or foil and place it in the fridge for 1-2 hours.

Once you’re ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grab your baking sheet. You can either use a no stick spray, cover your baking sheet with parchment paper or baking mats.

Grab a small cookie cutter for making the donut hole. Prep it by dipping the edges of it in a little bit of flour so the batter does not stick to the cookie cutter.

Use and ice cream scoop to make 2 scoops for each cookie. You will roll two scoops together to make one larger cookie ball. Spray your hands with non-stick spray if you need to.

Once you have the one large cookie ball, you are going to use your hands to flatten each ball into a flat cookie.

Place the cookie on your prepped baking tray. Use the prepped small round cutter to make the hole in the middle of the donut.

Fill your baking sheet with cookies ensuring they are not touching.

Pop them in the oven for 9-10 minutes.

Once the cookies are done remove them from the oven and move them to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Keep any remaining cookie dough in the fridge in between baking.

Once all of your cookies are done and cool it is time to make the chocolate donut topping.

In a small pot or in a double boiler add your heavy whipping cream. Simmer the cream until it is hot, but not boiling.

In a medium bowl add your chocolate chips. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate chips.

Use a whisk to whip until the chocolate chips are melted and you have nice and creamy chocolate glaze topping.

Grab your cookies and dip each one into the bowl of the chocolate glaze. Ensure you are only covering one side of the cookie. Repeat this for all of the cookies.

Finally you want to top each cookie with the clear glaze.

Simply add the powdered sugar milk and vanilla to a medium size mixing bowl. You can use an electric mixer to combine until nice and smooth. Dip the same side of the cookie in the clear glaze and add sprinkles on top of that. Set them back on the cooling rack to dry.

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This recipe will make 3 dozen cookies.