My baby girl turns seven years old today and I was fully expecting to create pretty princess or fairy-themed cupcakes for her to share with her classmates. She, however, had other ideas in mind: Unicorn Poop Cookies. <sigh> I had never heard of Unicorn Poop Cookies, but my two daughters reveled in describing them to me, giggling all the while. I used my tried-and-true lemon sugar cookie recipe and punted the rest of the way based on their instructions.

UNICORN POOP COOKIES

INGREDIENTS

4 cups sifted flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 ½ cups sugar
2 eggs at room temperature
¾ cup butter (1 ½ sticks) at room-temperature (don’t melt it!)
2 teaspoons vanilla
zest of one lemon

LET’S MAKE IT!

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a bowl, stir together dry ingredients.
In a second bowl (with a stand mixer or electric mixer), beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, lemon zest and vanilla.

Stir in flour mixture. The should look crumbly.

The mixed dough should look crumbly

Divide dough into 4 pieces and place each in its own bowl.
Add a few drops of food coloring each bowl, mix thoroughly.
Roll each dough color into a ball.
DO NOT REFRIGERATE DOUGH!!
Cut each colored ball into 4 pieces.

Using one piece of each color, re-assemble the balls so that each of the four new balls contains all four colors. 
Press dough together, mixing slightly, but don’t over-work it or the cookies will be rock hard.
The goal from here is to get the dough shaped into skinny snakes of uniform width- get it done however you can- there is no right or wrong way.

This is how I went about it:

Roll the dough out with fingers into sausage sized logs.
Cut a slice off the large roll
Roll the slice into a snake.

On top of a parchment paper lined cookie sheet, begin coiling the dough starting from the center of the cookie, working out. Coil dough in an upward spiral, ending in the center. Try not to coil more than 3 layers high.
Sprinkle with colored sugar.
Bake until barely golden (approx. 12-15 minutes).

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My baby girl turns seven years old today and I was fully expecting to create pretty princess or fairy-themed cupcakes for her to share with her classmates. She, however, had other ideas in mind: Unicorn Poop Cookies. <sigh> I had never heard of Unicorn Poop Cookies, but my two daughters reveled in describing them to me, giggling all the while. I used my tried-and-true lemon sugar cookie recipe and punted the rest of the way based on their instructions.

UNICORN POOP COOKIES

INGREDIENTS

4 cups sifted flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 ½ cups sugar
2 eggs at room temperature
¾ cup butter (1 ½ sticks) at room-temperature (don’t melt it!)
2 teaspoons vanilla
zest of one lemon

LET’S MAKE IT!

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a bowl, stir together dry ingredients.
In a second bowl (with a stand mixer or electric mixer), beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, lemon zest and vanilla.

Stir in flour mixture. The should look crumbly.

The mixed dough should look crumbly

Divide dough into 4 pieces and place each in its own bowl.
Add a few drops of food coloring each bowl, mix thoroughly.
Roll each dough color into a ball.
DO NOT REFRIGERATE DOUGH!!
Cut each colored ball into 4 pieces.

Using one piece of each color, re-assemble the balls so that each of the four new balls contains all four colors. 
Press dough together, mixing slightly, but don’t over-work it or the cookies will be rock hard.
The goal from here is to get the dough shaped into skinny snakes of uniform width- get it done however you can- there is no right or wrong way.

This is how I went about it:

Roll the dough out with fingers into sausage sized logs.
Cut a slice off the large roll
Roll the slice into a snake.

On top of a parchment paper lined cookie sheet, begin coiling the dough starting from the center of the cookie, working out. Coil dough in an upward spiral, ending in the center. Try not to coil more than 3 layers high.
Sprinkle with colored sugar.
Bake until barely golden (approx. 12-15 minutes).

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Angel H
Angel H
2024 years ago

My boys would get a kick out of these cookies!! Guess I will be trying them this weekend:) And my flock would love these treats:)

Carson
Carson
2024 years ago

I feel like the Pied Piper when I shake the bag of these…

Robin88
Robin88
2024 years ago

My chickens deserve those treats! Hope I win…. :)

Michelle Karling
Michelle Karling
2024 years ago

Love the unicorn poop recipie, great pics, they look great!!! I’ve never heard of them either. Now i know my girls would love the happy hens treat package. They all come running whenever they see me with the treat container, lol.

Angela Nelson-Patterson
Angela Nelson-Patterson
2024 years ago

The cookies look interesting. I dont know if I could eat them with that name…..LOL. I do want to try them. Maybe I will call them something else just to be able to eat them…haha Thanks again for the chance for another give away.

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