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Fairy Bites – A Sweet Little Treat

ByPink Piccadilly Pastries
Hope your week is going well! If not, I have something to cheer you
up! Fairy Bites!! Just looking at these cute little cookie bites makes
me smile! It brings out the kid in me! These are the kind of cookies
that would be perfect for a Doll’s Tea Party with my little girl!
They are easier to make than you might think – especially if you
have an icing knife and a bench scraper. I used my bench scraper
to cut the cookies and my icing knife to move them to my baking
sheet. This knife made it so easy to move rows of cookies at
a time, then I just separated them with my finger. Don’t worry
 if you don’t have these tools – just use a long knife to cut and
 move them.

The cookies were so good and extremely addictive!! They
would make a lovely tea party favor placed in a pretty bag
with a pretty label and ribbon!
Fairy Bites
1/2 cup butter, slightly softened
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp almond extract
1 1/4 cup All Purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
4 tsp multi-colored nonpareils
Heat oven to 325 degrees. Line 8-inch square baking
pan with plastic wrap (or cut parchment to fit) leaving
1-inch overhang. 
Combine butter, sugar and almond extract in medium bowl. 
Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy.
Reduce speed to low, add flour and salt. Beat until well
mixed. Stir in nonpareils.
Knead mixture 4-5 times in bowl until dough forms a ball. 
Pat dough evenly into prepared pan. Use overhang to lift
dough from pan. Cut dough into 1/2-inch squares.
Gently place squares 1/2 inch apart onto ungreased
cookie sheet. Bake approximately 15 minutes or until
bottoms just begin to brown.  
So cute and so yummy!! xo

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  6. That's a good question Alysia! I was actually planning on cutting out little hearts when I made these but the dough is rather crumbly and I was afraid it wouldn't work out so I just went with the recipe! I have a really good shortbread recipe – you can find it using my search button – "Shortbread Sandwiches with Blueberry Buttercream." Just use the shortbread recipe, adding the nonpareils to the dough and they will work beautifully for you! xo Jina

  7. I just made these! They are a wonderful little treat! A more fun version of shortbread. Thanks for sharing! I'll be making these again.

  9. Ohhhh I have to try these, they are ADORABLE.
    Wondering about the lining the pan with "plastic wrap" though. Won't that melt in the oven?
    I understand using parchment paper but was shocked to read "plastic wrap".
    Thanks for all your tempting recipes.

  10. Me again. Forgive me for not reading the recipe more thoroughly. Now I know why you can use plastic to line the pan. I think I just assumed I was going to bake that pan….but no, you take it out and cut them and put on a sheet pan to bake. Silly me………..oh well, you can delete these two posts of mine if you wish….I'd sure understand.

  15. I have these in the oven at the moment and they smell delicious. How long do you think they will last in an airtight container. I'm planning on making them for my daughter's birthday party and would love to do them a couple of days early.
    Cheers
    Stacey

  17. Hi Stacey! So glad you're giving these a try!! The original recipe says that you can bake and freeze these 2 months ahead. I'm sure you could bake them 2 days ahead with no problem, as long as you keep them in an air tight container. I know they will be a hit at your birthday party!! Thanks so much for your comment!!

  19. I just made these this morning while breakfast was in the oven and oh my goodness they are delicious! They taste like the crust off a pop tart, however, these taste much better. Gotta love homemade! Do not leave out the almond extract! That is the secret ingredient here. I do have a question for the author though. I had a hard time mixing in the nonpareils. They sort of melted. It was difficult to get them evenly distributed as they wanted to hide in a few corners. Suggestions? Thanks!

  20. I'm so glad you tried these Xee!! Everyone at my house loved them too!! There weren't many left by the end of the day!! I'm not sure why the nonpareils would melt. Some brands may be better than others, but I think it's probably best to buy a new bottle for this recipe. When you're kneading the dough, just kind of eyeball the nonpareils – try to spread out areas where there are more of them so that they're evenly distributed. Thanks so much!! Jina

  21. Just made these this afternoon and WOW. Between my husband and I, most of the batch has already disappeared! I should cut them larger next time so it's not as easy to eat a handful all at once!

  24. Hmmmm, that is a good question! I think it would work, especially if your sugar is a larger grain. I just looked at another recipe for these by Good Housekeeping and it said that you could use nonpareils or sprinkles. Not sure is sprinkles refers to colored sugar. I would give it a try! Please let me know how they did! Thanks! Jina

  28. I used dinosaur shaped sprinkles instead of nonpareils, and they worked really well! For cutting, I used a pizza cutter, which made it super easy and worked great. Such a great, easy to make recipe! Thank you!

  32. just made these for my sons carnival party at school. first i was a bit concerned about the measurements, cause i'm from germany and all i ever learned was the metric system, but thanks to a wellknown search engine i got everything 'translated' and the fairy bites (my son insists on calling them clowns cookies though) turned out awesome! i'm pretty sure going to try some other recipes of your's too :):)

  33. just made these for my sons carnival party at school. first i was a bit concerned about the measurements, cause i'm from germany and all i ever learned was the metric system, but thanks to a wellknown search engine i got everything 'translated' and the fairy bites (my son insists on calling them clowns cookies though) turned out awesome! i'm pretty sure going to try some other recipes of your's too :):)

  34. Hi! I would like to make these for Mothers Day tomorrow, but I don't have Almond Extract. Is there something else I could use? Thanks x

  39. Just wanted to say that this recipe is a huge hit! I've had to make several batches since I first tried it (a month ago) and have passed the link to it on many times. Also- someone asked about small cookie cutters-I've had great success rolling the dough out between sheets of parchment paper and then using small cutters (like those from Pampered Chef).

  43. I'm thinking of doing these for my daughters first birthday but in the shape of stars. Do you know what I should use for substitutes to make it a little healthier on her? We are doing an applesauce smash cake.

  44. Thank you for your question Deanna! To make this recipe a bit healthier, I would suggest substituting the all purpose flour for "white whole wheat flour." I also want to recommend another recipe of mine to you that is excellent to use with cookie cutters. Just go to my post "An Impromptu Barbie Tea Party" an check out the recipe for "Pink Piccadilly Shortbread." You could make the same healthy substitution for that recipe also!

  45. Yum, yum, yum…….. just baked these for my daughters 4th birthday party and they are delicious. I used vanilla extract instead of almond for the little kiddies.

  51. Oh my goodness me, with our Mother's Day event in my Kindy Room at Daycare next week, I have to try make these absolutely beautiful Fairy Bites. They look perfectly delicious! Thank you for your inspiration and sharing your passion with me.

  55. Greetings from Malaysia..
    Hye ,just bake them for my kids evening munchies they go crazy to see these colorful nonpareils ..and keep praise me..hihi..big thanks for this post

  57. I have these in the oven right now, I had 1/2 c of butter just sitting there not being used for any other recipe, and I said "why not?"
    They smell amazing, and I cannot WAIT until they come out!

  59. We love these cookies. My girlfriend and I bake about 2 dozen different kinds of cookies every Christmas season. These have been added for every year. We use red and green nonpareils and we call the ELF BITES. Thanks for the easy and delicious recipe.

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