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20 Confetti Treats That Are Delightfully Festive

May 16, 2024
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Nothing puts a smile on your face like a dessert that's loaded with rainbow sprinkles.

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Our Favorite Recipes with Sprinkles

Ready to sprinkle some joy into your next birthday bash? Our collection of confetti treat recipes is just what you need to make any celebration extra special. These playful creations are bursting with vibrant colors and sweet surprises in every bite. From delightful cakes to festive cookies, each recipe promises to bring smiles and a playful touch to your party, whether you're using a store-bought jar of sprinkles or learning to make your own. Ready to start baking? This confetti-filled dessert is the perfect place to start. There’s just something about a light, Funfetti-inspired cake that sets the scene for any birthday celebration. This cake batter uses a mix of butter and oil for maximum fluffiness.

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Marshmallow Crispy Treats

Crispy rice squares can be a festive treat all on their own, but the addition of colorful rainbow sprinkles can be just the thing to put a smile on your loved one's face. Make these for birthdays, special occasions, or any time you need to add a little brightness to your day.

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Cake Pops

Serve cake—without the mess! The frosting and cake flavors can be adjusted for different preferences, and the final touch is a generous shower of sprinkles.

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Confetti Whoopie Pies

Sweet and fluffy, a soft whoopie pie is a joyous treat for any occasion. Celebrate a birthday by making a batch of these confetti whoopie pies, which have sprinkles baked into the cookies and coating the fluffy marshmallow filling.

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Confetti Blondies

All the moist, buttery flavor of a classic confetti cake can be transformed into the portable package of a soft blondie. Mix rainbow sprinkles into the batter and into the buttercream frosting for maximum confetti fun.

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Rainbow Confetti Angel Food Cake

Angel food cake is a wonderfully light alternative to butter cake. This version is full of rainbow sprinkles for a confetti look that screams “party.”

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Confetti Cups

Need a festive dessert to serve a big group? These individual confetti cups use vanilla sandwich cookies and store-bought ice cream to make a simple, individual dessert that can be topped with rainbow sprinkles, white chocolate shavings and a dollop of whipped cream.

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Birthday Pancakes

Start a special birthday the right way with a tall stack of confetti pancakes. This colorful breakfast is drizzled with a silky cream cheese and a maple syrup glaze, then finished with (what else?) more sprinkles.

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Giant Sprinkle Macaroons

Coconut-filled macaroons are a holiday favorite, but this gluten-free dessert is a good option any time, thanks to a showering of rainbow sprinkles. The bottoms are dipped in chocolate to finish.

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Confetti Monkey Bread

Pull-apart monkey bread is a delightful dessert that can easily serve a crowd. This version has been reimagined as vanilla-flavored with vanilla and rainbow sprinkles instead of the traditional cinnamon coating.

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Sprinkles Biscotti

Make tea time or your afternoon coffee break extra fun with a crunchy, sprinkle-filled biscotti. The secret to the perfect texture is a second bake, which crisps the cookie to perfection.

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Rainbow Sprinkle Confetti Cake with Vanilla Buttercream

There’s no way to go wrong with a classic confetti cake. This recipe has sprinkles baked into the triple layer of white cake and is coated with additional sprinkles on top of the fluffy buttercream frosting.

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Sprinkle Cookies

Simple sugar cookies are one of the easier baked dessert options out there, and you can add an extra twist of whimsy with a few sprinkles. A quick powdered sugar icing helps hold the sprinkles in place.

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Quick Confetti Croissants

Use store-bought, unbaked croissants to save time when making this magical sprinkle breakfast pastry. Once baked, these croissants are filled with a sweet mixture of mascarpone and strawberry jam.

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Peanut Butter Krispy Rice Squares

Some say that peanut butter crispy rice squares can’t get any better, but those people probably haven’t seen these ones that are covered in sprinkles. These squares also have hidden crushed graham crackers and milk chocolate chips for an extra sweet surprise.

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Sprinkle Cake Donuts

A soft doughnut can only be improved by a full coating of crunchy nonpareil sprinkles. The dough gets a special tang from a combination of cream cheese and sour cream, which also makes the doughnuts super light and airy.

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Giant Chocolate Chip-Sprinkle Cookie

Skip the birthday cake and give your kids the dessert they really want: a gigantic chocolate chip cookie covered in sprinkles! The dough bakes as one whole slab that you can cut into as many slices as you need.

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Confetti Snickerdoodle Sprinkle Ice Cream Sandwiches

These cookies are stuffed with rainbow sprinkles and coated in cinnamon sugar before baking to golden deliciousness. A scoop of vanilla ice cream gets sandwiched between two cookies, and the whole thing is rolled in an extra dose of sprinkles for good measure.

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No-Bake Cookie Dough Balls

Eat raw cookie dough without the risk with these soft cookie balls rolled in sprinkles. This recipe is deceptively healthy, as the balls are filled with plenty of oats, flaxseeds and chia or hemp seeds.

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Isomalt Lollipops

Candy-making can be fun, and it's less challenging that you think. These are made using isomalt, and they're full of bright rainbow sprinkle goodness.

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