Easy Camo Sugar Cookies
These camo sugar cookies are SO easy to make! They’re the perfect treat for celebrating a military promotion, reenlistment, retirement or even your favorite veteran on Veterans Day!
Eeek! We have an Army-versary, folks! John is now up to 17 years of serving in the world’s greatest army. It’s crazy to think that we could potentially only have 3 more years of this crazy lifestyle. Although, I honestly think it’ll be a few more years than that!
Since I’ll use any excuse to celebrate, I baked up a few batches of camouflage cookies to take into John’s office. I love any chance I get to interact with soldiers, and soldiers love free food. It’s a win-win! Plus, these cookies are so easy to make, hardly any effort goes into baking up enough to feed an army. Or a platoon. Or just the S3 office. Ha!
Making Camo Sugar Cookies
Part of what makes this recipe so easy, is the base. I just use plain Betty Crocker dump and mix sugar cookie mix. So easy! But, if you have a favorite scratch recipe for drop sugar cookies, that would work as well!
Once the cookie dough is all good and mixed, it’s necessary to divide it into four equal parts. This is when you’ll mix the camo colors in. To keep things simple, two gel colors (brown and green) work perfectly for this. The basic set of Wilton food color gels includes a brown and Kelly green. You can also pick up individual jars of color at craft or baking stores, or even Walmart. To get a moss green, you can simply add a little brown color to the green! Be sure to work with small drops of color at a time (I use a toothpick or knife tip), since a little goes a long way!
To achieve the color combination that I used for my camo sugar cookies, one part of dough is left uncolored. A little bit of brown is added to the second portion of dough. Then one of the greens receives just a tiny bit of food color, and the last part receives a bit more.
Once baked, the colors in the cookies are very close to the color in the raw dough, so feel free to play along with the colors until you’re satisfied.
Just a pinch of dough in each color is all it takes to roll each ball of camo sugar cookie dough up. The goal is to create balls that are about an inch in diameter.
Easy Camo Sugar Cookies
These camo sugar cookies are SO easy to make! They're the perfect treat for celebrating a military promotion, reenlistment, retirement or even your favorite veteran on Veterans Day!
Ingredients
- 1 (17.5 ounce) package sugar cookie cookie mix
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened
- 1 egg
- Gel food color (brown and green)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375ºF (or 350ºF for dark or nonstick cookie sheets).
- In a large bowl, mix sugar cookie mix, butter, and egg until combine and a soft dough forms. Separate the dough evenly into 4 smaller bowls.
- Add a few small drops of brown food color gel to the first bowl of dough. Add a few small drops of green food color gel to the second bowl. Double the amount of green food color gel added to the third bowl. Stir the food color gel into each respective bowl, adding more color if necessary. Leave the last bowl of dough uncolored.
- Take a small pinch of each color of dough in your hand, and use both hands two roll it up into a ball the size of a rounded tablespoon, or about an inch in diameter.
- Place each ball of cookie dough on a parchment lined cookie sheet approximately 3 inches apart.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for about a minute, before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
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I love how easy using a packaged cookie mix makes making these cookies. They’re practically no-fail with crispy edges, but soft chewy middle– my favorite!
