Want the easiest rose cookies recipe? Perhaps roses would still smell just as sweet no matter what we call them. But would they taste as great? These easy rose shaped cookies are the party-perfect answer for any occasion.
Baby showers? Check!
Birthdays? Check!
Valentine’s Day? Check!
Even Halloween? Check!
You don’t have to be an expert baker to create these gorgeous, easy rose cookies. What’s great about them is that you can make the frosting in any color you want and have a bouquet of colorful rose cookies that are almost too beautiful to eat.
Oh, but you won’t be able to resist that sweet cookie aroma or that cream cheese filling, so go ahead and bite into one. And another. Ok, maybe you’ll need to make a new batch after eating them all, but hey, they’re super simple to make.
They’ll be your new go-to for all those occasions listed above, and many more too. Everyone will want to know how you made such beautiful cookies, but that can our little secret.
What You Will Need for Easy Rose Cookies
- Butter – Make sure it’s at room temperature.
- Sugar – Use granulated.
- Egg – One egg will bind your cookie dough together
- Flour – All-purpose works great here.
- Vanilla extract – Adds that essential sweetness.
- Salt – And this keeps the sweetness from overpowering the cookie.
- Colored food gels – You will choose the colors you want. For example, for Halloween, you could use orange, purple, and black. One will be to color the cream cheese filling.
- Cream cheese – This is what you’ll use to make the filling.
- Parchment paper – Perfect for keeping your baking trays neat and tidy!
- Pastry bags with tip – This is why these are easy rose shaped cookies!
How to Make Easy Rose Shaped Cookies
In less than 30 minutes, you’ll have beautiful cookies you can make for any festive occasion. We love that the food coloring can set the mood for any event, and the rose shapes are so easy to make yet everyone will think you spent hours putting them together.
If you’ve never made your own cookie dough, you should know that a mixer will be the best tool you’ve got for the job. You’ll put the butter, egg, sugar, and vanilla in there while the oven is preheating.
Your objective is to blend this mixture until it becomes creamy, then you can add the flour and salt.
Now, let’s say you want a bunch of orange and purple roses with a black center for Halloween. You’ll divide up the dough into two portions and put orange on one and purple on the other.
What about that black coloring then? That goes with the cream cheese. Whip it together and let it wait for your cookies.
You can see where this is going right? Fill the pastry bags each with a color and pipe them out in a rotated motion onto your parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Once it all cools, you can fill them with the cream cheese filling.
The photos show you what this will look like for Halloween, but you can swap out the colors for anything you like to make it for any occasion. The full recipe walks you through it all below so you can make a delicious bouquet for anyone you know!
Makes: 20 Cookies
Prep: 20 Minutes
Cook Time: 8 Minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 cup (2 sticks) room temperature butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon water
- parchment paper
- 3 drops orange food gel
- 1 drop purple food gel
- 5 drops black food gel
- 1 – 8 oz. package cream cheese
Instructions:
- Heat oven to 400°F. Combine butter, sugar, egg and extract in mixer.
- Blend at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add flour and salt, and blend at low speed until well mixed.
- Divide and use food coloring by mixing in each color. Three drops of orange in one set of dough. One drop of purple in the other set of dough.
- In a stand mixer, mix together 5 drops black dye with cream cheese. Whip it well and set aside for cookie filling.
- To make the cookies, insert a 1M tip into pastry bag. Fill bag with cookie dough. Do this for each color. Warming the piping bag with your hands will help to pipe out the cookies. Do this in a rotated motion on to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 5 to 8 minutes, or until slightly golden. Remove to a cookie rack and let cool. Once cool fill with whipped cream cheese.
Halloween Rose Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) room temperature butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon water
- parchment paper
- 3 drops orange food gel
- 1 drop purple food gel
- 5 drops black food gel
- 1 - 8 oz. package cream cheese
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400°F. Combine butter, sugar, egg and extract in mixer.
- Blend at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add flour and salt, and blend at low speed until well mixed.
- Divide and use food coloring by mixing in each color. Three drops of orange in one set of dough. One drop of purple in the other set of dough.
- In a stand mixer, mix together 5 drops black dye with cream cheese. Whip it well and set aside for cookie filling.
- To make the cookies, insert a 1M tip into pastry bag. Fill bag with cookie dough. Do this for each color. Warming the piping bag with your hands will help to pipe out the cookies. Do this in a rotated motion on to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for 5 to 8 minutes, or until slightly golden. Remove to a cookie rack and let cool. Once cool fill with whipped cream cheese.