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.
Servings: 12 cookies
Calories: 203kcal
Ingredients
- 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
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C).
- Prep 2 baking sheets by covering them with parchment paper.
- 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.
- 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.
- Add 1 egg and 2 tsp of vanilla extract to the mixer. Mix until combined.
- Combine the dry ingredients from step 1 with the wet ingredients. Mix until just combined.
- Scoop out ⅔ of the dough into a separate bowl. Add ¾ tsp of ube extract and mix until the dough is completely purple.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes until the edges are slightly brown.
- Cool for 10 minutes on the baking sheet before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 203kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 34mg | Sodium: 119mg | Potassium: 28mg | Fiber: 0.5g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 256IU | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg