They are soft, thick, and gooey on the inside and have a golden brown, slightly crisp, and a festive red-white-and-blue color on the outside. Oh, and wait…they are also filled with lots of milk chocolate chips! If you have ever made my famous Krolls Kookies recipe before you’re going to love these cookies because this recipe uses that recipe as the base. ? The only difference is this recipe adds in gel food coloring to get those intense colors of the American Flag replicated in your cookies! So fun! These festive cookies are easy to make and can be made ahead of time so you are not in the kitchen with the oven on during the 4th of July. They are absolutely perfect when celebrating our Declaration of Independence, but they also make the perfect Labor Day dessert in September, are so patriotic when honoring our military on Veteran’s Day in November and on Memorial Day in May! If you are looking for more ways to celebrate with food this 4th of July, try my funfetti cookies bars with red white and blue sprinkles, my funfetti cookies with festive sprinkles or these M&M cookies with red, white and blue M&M’s!
All purpose flour: Be exact when measuring and make sure you use all-purpose flour since it makes a cookie with a soft, slightly chewy interior and a crispy exterior. Cake Flour: If you’ve been around my site for any length of time you know I love making my cookies with a combination of cake flour and all-purpose flour. Cake flour is finer, softer and lighter than All-Purpose Flour and I find using a mix of both types of flour results in the most perfect cookies. You can find cake flour in most grocery stores, usually on the top shelf. Cornstarch: key ingredient to making thick, big cookies. Eggs and egg yolks: they don’t need to be at room temperature (yay!) Unsalted butter: I like using unsalted butter so that I can control the flavors in my cookies. If you use salted butter, it may affect the saltiness of your cookies. Consider reducing the amount of added salt if you use salted butter. Chocolate chips (milk, dark or semi sweet): I usually use milk chocolate in these cookies, but feel free to use your favorite. Food coloring: I used gel food coloring to create a very vibrant red and blue color in the cookies. It’s concentrated so it might be hard to mix into the dough, compared to liquid food coloring, but just mix mix mix and it will come together. AmeriColor has a good product for the red and blue colors!
