30-Minute Ube Marble Cookies
If you need an unfussy cookie recipe, these ube marble cookies are for you. They have the most vibrant purple color thanks to a touch of ube extract swirled into a vanilla cookie dough. Included in this blog post are details on how to get that marble effect and how to make sure your cookies are perfectly round every time.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 ⅔ cup all purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 1 cup granulated sugar (plus ½ cup for rolling)
- 1 egg (room temperature)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ tsp ube extract
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C).
- 2
Prep 2 baking sheets by covering them with parchment paper.
- 3
Combine 1 ⅔ cup of all purpose flour, ½ tsp of baking soda, ½ tsp of baking powder, and ¼ tsp of salt in a small bowl. Mix and set aside.
- 4
In a separate bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, whisk together ½ cup of unsalted butter and 1 cup of granulated sugar until well combined.
- 5
Add 1 egg and 2 tsp of vanilla extract to the mixer. Mix until combined.
- 6
Combine the dry ingredients from step 1 with the wet ingredients. Mix until just combined.
- 7
Scoop out ⅔ of the dough into a separate bowl. Add ¾ tsp of ube extract and mix until the dough is completely purple.
- 8
Take 2 tbsp of dough from the ube dough and 1 tbsp from the vanilla dough, and combine them into 1 cookie dough ball. Each ball should be ~50 grams.
- 9
Add ½ cup of granulated sugar to a small bowl. Coat the dough ball in granulated sugar. Repeat this process until you run out of cookie dough.
- 10
Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes until the edges are slightly brown.
- 11
Cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.