Copycat Crumbl Birthday Cake Cookies
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Crumbl is the latest craze in the cookie world and with good reason. These Copycat Crumbl Birthday Cake Cookies taste like the ones straight from the Crumbl shop. They are easy to make so you can enjoy these giant bakery cookies at home!
Crumbl has quickly become our favorite cookie shop in the state of Utah. We have tried so many different flavors and looking at the menu each week feels like Christmas.
It is no secret that Crumbl cookies are large, buttery, soft and chewy cookies with a variety of toppings.
While earning Crumbl Cash is a fun perk to buying them in-store, nothing beats making a batch of Crumbl cookies at home with the family.
That is why we made this Copycat Crumbl recipe so you can enjoy these delicious cookies at home too!
Ingredients For Homemade Crumbl Birthday Cake Cookies
For The Crumbl Birthday Cake Cookies
- Unsalted sweet cream butter – You want this softened so make sure it is room temperature before making the cookie dough
- Granulated Sugar – This is regular white sugar but if you’d rather, you can also use a sugar substitute like Truvia
- Eggs – Make sure the eggs are at room temperature before making the cookie dough
- Pure vanilla extract – You can also use cake batter flavoring instead
- Flour – This is just regular all-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Funfetti sprinkles – You want to get the rainbow jimmies sprinkles
For The Crumbl Vanilla Frosting
- Unsalted sweet cream butter – You also want this at room temperature to help make sure it creams well
- Powdered sugar – Just regular powdered sugar
- Pure vanilla extract – Again, you can use cake batter flavoring instead
- Heavy whipping cream
- Large piping bag with large round tip – This will help make those beautiful and perfect frosting swirls
- Funfetti sprinkles – You want to get the rainbow jimmies sprinkles
Want more Copycat Crumbl Cookie Recipes? Check out this Copycat Crumbl Sugar Cookie Recipe.
How to Make Crumbl Birthday Cake Cookies
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper
Using a standing mixer, beat the butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla (or cake batter flavoring) until combined, creamy and fluffy
Using a medium bowl, whisk the flour and baking powder
Gradually beat in the dry ingredients into the wet until a soft dough forms
Gently fold in the Funfetti sprinkles
Using a medium ice cream scooper, scoop out some dough and roll into a ball. If you have a food scale on hand, you can weigh the cookies to 2.5 ounces so you know they will all be the same size and bake evenly.
Place the cookies onto a cookie sheet and lightly flatten into a thick disk (you can use the bottom of a cup or small bowl to help with this)
Bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes or until lightly brown
Remove from oven and allow to cool.
Make The Frosting While The Cookies Cool
Using the standing mixer, beat all ingredients, except the sprinkles, together until combined and smooth and holds a peak
Scoop the frosting into the piping bag
Starting from the middle of the cookie, pipe a thick spiral of frosting from the middle to the edge of the cookie
Sprinkle some Funfetti sprinkles on top
Allow the frosting to harden before enjoying!
Serve and Enjoy!
How to Store The Cookies
Make sure you store any leftover cookies in an airtight container away from heat and moisture. You can safely store these at room temperature for a few days. If you prefer, you can also store these in the refrigerator for a few days as well (they will then become chilled cookies).
Want more Funfetti Recipes? Check out:
- Funfetti Cake Batter Popsicles
- Funfetti Ice Cream Bread
- Funfetti Cream Cheese Mints
- Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies
- Funfetti Cheesecake
Copycat Crumbl Birthday Cake Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
For The Crumbl Birthday Cake Cookie Dough
- 1 ½ cups unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 4 ½ cups flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- ¾ cups rainbow Funfetti sprinkles
For The Vanilla frosting
- 1 cup unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 4 Tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- 1 large piping bag with large round tip
- ½ cup rainbow Funfetti sprinkles
Instructions
- How to Make the Crumbl Birthday Cake Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper
- Using a standing mixer, beat the butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla (or cake batter flavoring) until combined, creamy and fluffy
- Using a medium bowl, whisk the flour and baking powder
- Gradually beat in the dry ingredients into the wet until a soft dough forms
- Gently fold in the Funfetti sprinkles
- Using a medium ice cream scooper, scoop out some dough and roll into a ball. If you have a food scale on hand, you can weigh the cookies to 2.5 ounces so you know they will all be the same size and bake evenly.
- Place the cookies onto a cookie sheet and lightly flatten into a thick disk (you can use the bottom of a cup or small bowl to help with this)
- Bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes or until lightly brown
- Remove from oven and allow to cool.
How to Make the Vanilla Frosting- Using the standing mixer, beat all ingredients, except the sprinkles, together until combined and smooth and holds a peak
- Scoop the frosting into the piping bag
- Starting from the middle of the cookie, pipe a thick spiral of frosting from the middle to the edge of the cookie
- Sprinkle some Funfetti sprinkles on top
- Allow the frosting to harden before enjoying!
- Serve and Enjoy!
Nutrition information is a rough estimate only; actual values will vary based on the exact ingredients used and amount of recipe prepared.
I tried this recipe, and it was perfect, but I have questions I want to ask; how can I reach you?
Hi Rel, you can email me at brittanie@simplisticallyliving.com thanks!
I was thinking of making these, but not the frosting. Would it still taste ok? Or does it need the frosting to be nice and sweet.
In my opinion, the frosting is what really makes the cookie but you can certainly make the cookie without it. It just won’t be as sweet.
Hello, I do not have this bakery where I live and am not familiar with the cookie size. While I do plan on weighing the dough as per instructions, I would like to know beforehand if the yield of only 6 cookies is accurate? Approximately how big are these cookies in diameter? Are they almost like personal cookie cakes? They look smaller in the pictures, and I have not done the math on the ingredients to the weight per cookie to see if that equals only six. It feels like it would make more with 4 1/2 cups of flour! Please respond ASAP if you can, I would really appreciate it as I want to make these for my little brothers birthday this weekend. They sound and look delicious, and I will make sure to leave an updated review once I make them!
Hi Rey, so, looking at Crumbl Cookies, each cookie is a 5.5-ounce cookie and measures about 4.5 inches wide. They are much large cookies than just a typically personal size cookie. Hope that helps!
It turned out so good!