Fairy Bread Cookies are a simple spin on classic Fairy Bread or Fairy Toast. It’s a buttery cookie topped with a butter frosting and loads of sprinkles!
Well, yes. Today is a happy cookie day.
Sprinkles for life, right?
These cookies are pretty basic, but also based on a popular treat that I have lived 30-something years not knowing about…
How is that possible?
Well, a few months back Amber told me her husband enjoys Fairy Bread.
Ok, please don’t make fun of him just yet.
Apparently Fairy Bread is a thing in Australia, New Zealand and England.
Jeez, those people get all the good stuff…awesome accents, bread covered in sprinkles…
Anyhow she asked if my boys had ever had it. Because My DAD is from England..and well she just assumed I knew of this buttery, sprinkle bread.
I made her explain it to me…which took 3 seconds. Because it’s bread, with butter, covered in sprinkles. The end.
BUT it has the fantastic name, Fairy Bread…which makes me want to eat a whole loaf.
So yeah, I knew then that I had to share it with you guys.
And also, I seriously need to have a conversation about this with my dad, because never once in all my life has he mentioned Fairy Bread. I am sure it’s going to be because “when he was a boy they were too poor to afford sprinkles” or some nonsense that parents like to tell you. Because this omission might be unforgivable without a valid excuse. Dad? DADDDD???
So instead of making toast. Because blah. I went ahead and morphed Fairy Bread into what it really SHOULD be.
A cookie.
So yeah, I made a classic butter cookie, smeared it with a buttery frosting and loaded sprinkles on top. Fairy Bread officially becomes official.
Ok, so first I made the cookie dough. I happened to use this Princess Cake and Cookie Bakery Emulsion in place of extract. If you haven’t ever used Bakery Emulsion in place of extract in cookies or cakes you absolutely need to give it a go! This one is one of my favorites…it’s a mix of buttery, vanilla-ish, almondy deliciousness…with the most tiny hint of citrus…I don’t know how they do it but it tastes AMAZING!
If you don’t have the emulsion, no worries..just use a mix of almond and vanilla extract. The cookies will turn out perfect!
Your dough will be a stiff butter cookie dough…
Roll it out on a floured surface…
I cut my cookies out using a pizza cutter into free-form triangles. If you wanted to use a cookie cutter, go for it!
When the cookies were baked and cooled I whipped up a simple butter frosting.
The thing about Fairy Bread is that it’s bread and butter topped with sprinkles, basically..so I wanted to make the frosting nice and buttery to mimic that.
Now with that said, you will only need a small smear of that butter frosting to do the trick!
And then have your cookie face plant into sprinkles…
I found the “face plant” method to work the best, so you don’t end up with a millionty sprinkles all over the place.
Because that will happen.
Anyway, please give me the name of someone who could refuse such a happy cookie.
No way they exist.
PrintFairy Bread Cookies
Description
makes 24 cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 cups flour
Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- Sprinkles to top
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350°
- In bowl of stand mixer beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in egg and both extracts, beating until combined. Mix in baking powder and salt.
- Finally with mixer on low, add in flour and mix until dough comes together.
- On a floured surface roll the dough out until it’s 1/2 inch thick. Using a knife or pizza cutter, cut dough into triangle shaped pieces, about 3 1/2 inches long.
- Bake for 8 minutes until edges are lightly golden. Allow to cool before frosting.
Frosting
- Beat butter until smooth. Slowly add powdered sugar and continue beating until smooth and spreadable.
Assembly
- Frost each cookie with a teaspoon or 2 of frosting. Top frosting with sprinkles.
Notes
If you have the bakery emulsion that I used, replace the extracts with 1 tsp of Princess Bakery Emulsion
This is my first time hearing about Fairy toast too! I think I could have fairy toast or fairy toast cookies EVERYDAY! These look so elegant and so fun!
Hooray for expanding our worldliness and opening our eyes to cultural treats! 🙂 Fairy Toast sounds like a dream come true…the cookie versions sounds like you totally made my dreams explode. Hello sprinkles!
This might be the first time I have ever heard of Fairy Toast, but it sounds absolutely delightful! I love your accurate description of how the sprinkles should be applied to the cookies. 😉
I have that emulsion! I need to break it out and dust it off 🙂 These look great! pinned
And I was having problems commenting the other day on your key lime post but my next post is key lime and i juiced them rather than using storebought. Shelly, do not ever do that. It took me like 25 ping pong ball sized little limes to get 1/2 c juice. You were very smart to just buy it! 🙂
As much as I love a chocolate chip cookie, cookies like these will always hold a special place in my heart! Ugh how I love those little pin-dot sprinkles. I think those sprinkles are the driving force behind my love of nonpareils.
Oh how adorable! Love them!
Talk about totally cute cookies, love all those colourful sprinkles. Pinned!
These look AMAZING and I can’t wait to try them! Although I’m English and I’ve never heard or seen Fairy Toast (like ever, and trust me – this is the kind of treat I’d look for!) so maybe it’s more of an Australian/New Zealand thing!
Yep you have officially made my fairy bread dreams!
Squeee! *dies*