Crumbl Cotton Candy Cookies

crumbl cotton candy cookies with candy nerds

These cookies are amazing and so easy to make. With just a few simple ingredients, you can have these delicious cookies that taste like cotton candy.

Ingredients

  • 1⁄2 Cup Unsalted Sweet Cream Butter, softened
  • 1⁄4 Cup Canola Oil
  • 1⁄2 Cup Sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons Powdered Sugar
  • 1 Large Egg
  • 1 Tablespoon Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 1 Teaspoon Cotton Candy Extract
  • 2 1⁄3 Cup Flour
  • 2 Tablespoons Corn Starch
  • 1⁄4 Teaspoon Kosher Salt
  • 3⁄4 Teaspoon Baking Powder
  • Food Weight Scale (optional)

Cotton Candy Frosting

  • 1 Cup Unsalted Sweet Cream Butter, softened
  • 2 Cups Powdered Sugar
  • 4 Tablespoons Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 3 Teaspoons Cotton Candy Extract
  • Pink and Sky Blue Gel Food Coloring
  • Pink and Purple Nerd Candy
  • Large Piping Bag with Large Round Tip

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two cookie sheets with silicone baking mats. Using a standing mixer, beat the butter, oil, sugar, powder sugar until combined.
  2. Beat in the egg, cotton candy extract, and heavy whipping cream until combined. Using a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, corn starch, salt and baking powder. Gradually beat in the dry ingredients into the wet and continue beating until a dough forms.
  3. Using a medium cookie scoop and food scale (optional) scoop out a small amount of dough and weigh it. You want your dough to be 2.2 oz or close to make 12 equal size cookies.
  4. Roll the cookie dough into a ball and place onto the cookie sheet, pressing into a thick disk. Repeat steps until you have 6 even sized cookie dough disk on your cookie trays.
  5. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Allow to cool completely while you make your frosting.
  6. Using a standing mixer, beat the butter, powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream, cotton candy extract until creamy.
  7. Divide the frosting into the two bowls. Mix 3 drops of the pink gel food coloring into 1 bowl. Mix in 3 drops of the sky blue gel food coloring into the second bowl.
  8. Scoop the pink frosting onto 1 side of the piping bag and the blue frosting onto the other side of the piping bag.
  9. Pipe swirls around each cookie and sprinkle some pink and purple nerd candies on top.