All of the cake qualities of Funfetti in cookie form! Gluten-free and vegan Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies, soft, sweet, & tender with a “cream cheese” center to mimic frosting! The iconic celebratory dessert for any occasion!
So, if you didn’t know…HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! Let’s bring out the fanfare, balloons, and of course, the sprinkles! Just like a birthday without pancakes is unheard of, a birthday without sprinkles is no birthday at all! Sprinkles are the edible confetti of the day and they signal to everyone that a celebration is at hand!
Y’all may be thinking why then, did I not make Funfetti pancakes…I really don’t have an answer for that. I guess that will be next year 😉 It’s okay though, these cookies are out of the park! I didn’t intentionally plan on them having the texture, crumb, and tenderness of actual cake, but that’s what happened!
It’s like biting into a fork-full of cake but in cookie form. I guess you can say these are “cake” cookies. They even have some homemade “cream cheese” frosting to tie it all together! I should have poked some candles in the centers too, but alas, I’m only just thinking of that now as I type this.
Over the years, my birthdays have tended to get rather lackluster. (I know. I say that like I’m old and graying.) That must just be the course of life though. Birthdays lose a bit of the charm with each passing year. With 20 now under my belt, I officially move out of my teens, never to be called a teenager again. How I had always pictured myself at 20 is nothing like how I feel now. The past couple of years are nothing like I would have ever fathomned.
They keep talking about quarter-life crisis now and I do believe that it’s true. Mid-life crisis is so 1990s. With millennials (am I a millennial?) we’re experiencing things a lot quicker/sooner and a lot more of them. I’m pretty sure I already hit my quarter-life crisis (and am still in said crisis). That seems like the norm, which is rather sad. I just want some time to breathe, everything is so rushed now.
Can we stop a moment and smell the funfetti cookies? No, I don’t think we’ll ever find ourselves or society any more relaxed (at least not in the near future). If we want to find any sort of breathing room, semblance, or “okay-ness” with our own intuition it’s up to us and no one else. You’re going to have to tune out so much and find a way to stay focused on what you want and your own peace and well-being. Let’s be real here. You may be lucky enough to find and have the support of a select few who truly and wholeheartedly want to route you on, but for the most part you’re on your own.
That’s what I’ve learned after 20 years. Of course, there are going to be circumstances that will force and dictate some of your decisions and the directions you take that you just have no control over. That’s the other thing. NOTHING will go as planned. Right when you think you’ve found that path of focused self-direction and “calm”, don’t believe it. Something will change or force you to change the things you were mapping out in your mind or everything you thought you had and loved can be taken away. Then, alone, you have to form a thick tough skin, pick yourself back up, and find a way to keep going, to keep trying. That’s all you can do and that’s also the hardest part.
You are your own worst enemy. That is fact. You can literally make or break yourself. You hold so much power in your mind and hands. You’ll end up making so many bad decisions, but also so many right decisions. With all that, each day you’ll start to really see that power that only you have in your life. The reality is life is going to hurt and beat you, so you’ll need to harness your power and start to mold yourself into something unbreakable. Don’t give the power to you enemy-self, but to your superman/woman-self.
Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies
- 1 Cup Gluten-Free All Purpose Flour
- ¾ Cup Sorghum Flour
- ¼ Cup Arrowroot Starch
- 2 Tsp Baking Powder
- ⅓ Cup Granular Erythritol
- 1 Cup Unsweetened Applesauce
- 2 TB Allergy-Free Sprinkelz
- ½ Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
- For the Cream Cheese Center:
- ⅓ Cup Daiya Plain Cream Cheese
- ⅓ Cup Powdered Erythritol
- ¼ Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
- More Sprinkelz (to top)
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all cookie ingredients and mix to form a well combined batter.
- On a Silpat or parchment paper lined baking sheet, form 14 (2 tablespoons each) balls with your hands and place on the baking sheet, flattening them a bit.
- Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
- Remove the baked cookies after 15 minutes, using your thumb, make an indent in the center of each. Then place back in the oven for about 5 more minutes, remove and let cool.
- In a small bowl, mix together the cream cheese ingredients (not the spinkelz), until you get a soft frosting texture.
- Fill the centers of the cookies with 1 teaspoon each of the cream cheese frosting and then sprinkle the center with additional sprinkelz.
 
This post got a little deeper than I’d planned. (What a “Debbie Downer”! I thought this was about celebrations and funfetti?) Well, your reward for reading this post (if you even read the writing of food bloggers!) is the funfetti cookies! I just like to keep it real, no fluff (except on my cookies!) Since it’s my birthday, I get to choose the topic and the recipe 😉 These cookies though. These cookies will change your life (or day), even if you’re not celebrating anything special! A little bite of “cake”, sprinkles, and love! Here’s to the next decade of my young adult life (and some delicious Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies for your Monday!)
So tell me:
+ How did you picture yourself at age 20?
+ What’s your essential birthday breakfast?
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first, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Rebecca! (sorry it’s so belated!)
second, love the thoughts in the post! I feel kinda of the same way. i think it’s because of all the pressure now for kids to know what they want to do going into college, and graduate knowing so and having the pressure to do perfectly in their job, when in reality, we’re so young, and expectations are so much higher than they used to be! due to comparison and such.
i hope your birthday was lovely! i’ll try these next time i have a special occasion 🙂
masala girl recently posted…Vegetable and Bean Enchiladas with Caramelized Onions & Greens
Thank you, sweetheart!
And yes! The expectations, even if they aren’t meant to be intentional, are way to high right now.
So cute! Theses would be perfect for kids to make.
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Probably more fun to eat 😛
Your Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies look awesome!
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hard to believe these are vegan! they look so yummy.
Kim~madeinaday recently posted…Merry Monday Linky Party #108
Well, thank you!
Perfect for parties! My favorite thing about these cookies is the vegan cream cheese center! Awesome!
The center is what makes them so unique!
These look like the Italian cookies my grandma and mother made.
Hahaha, I’m just going to take a shot in the dark here and say these are FAR from them, haha!
You got that right, lol. Although ur recipe is more like something I’d try right now. Don’t tell my relatives.
Happy Birthday! I hope that this next year is full of love, laughter and yummy recipes like this one! Who wouldn’t want a cake-cookie on their birthday? Especially one topped with cream cheese frosting and sprinkles?
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Yayyyyuh for funfetti! It makes everything so much more fun, haha. These cookies look delicious, and I love thumbprint cookies! :]! I hope you had an awesome birthday! <3
I did! Than kyou Farrah!
Happy (belated) birthday! If you think 20 is lackluster just wait until you’re celebrating 50! :-). I hope you had a great day. The cookies look delicious in any case.
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Hahaha, thanks 😉
Those look amazing and would be a wonderful thing to take to a get together this summer. Thanks for sharing.
Clotilde/Craftybegonia recently posted…Garbanzo Morsels
They would be!
Happy birthday Rebecca! Hope you had a wonderful time 🙂 these cookies look perfect for the occasion. I totally love the “candle in the middle” idea, LOL
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HI Rebecca,
Happy Birthday and many more! Hope you have a wonderful day! These cookies sound super delicious especially with the cream cheese filling. Pinned & tweeted!
Thank you so much!
Happy Birthday to you! These cookies are definitely the perfect way to celebrate. The more sprinkles the better!
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Thank you! And I SO agree 😉
Happy Belated Birthday, Rebecca! Ah 20… so young, so much ahead of you. And yet so much accomplished and experienced! You’ve done so much already, I can’t wait to see what you continue to do =)
I hope you had a truly wonderful celebration. These cookies would have definitely helped – I’ll make these for my upcoming birthday in a couple of months =)
“You are your own worst enemy.” Wise words.
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Happy Birthday to you!! I would celebrate with these cookies over cake anyday! And I needt o check out those allergen friendly sprinkles you mentioned!
Anjali @ Vegetarian Gastronomy recently posted…Tofu Peanut Lettuce Wraps
Thank you! O Sprinklz are the best (and only)!
cookies, esp cake worthy ones will definitely brighten up the day 🙂 i hope you had a wonderful bday.
dixya @food, pleasure, and health recently posted…Sharing Siggi’s Love
Totally! That’s why, celebration or not…just make them! Thanks Dixya!
Happy birthday to you Rebecca. I’d say for 20 years old, you are way ahead of most people in their 80’s. With your great outlook on life, and these amazing cookies, I know you have lots of great times ahead!
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Gorgeous
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Happy Birthday Rebecca ~ Hope you had a fabulous day and girl these cookies look so cute n festive. Wish you lots of Strength & Sunshine to Rock the 20’s !!!
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My super-woman self says she’s going to eat all of the funfetti cookies! They look awesome and so pretty. Happy birthday! I hope you had a lovely day.
I have no idea how I pictures my self at 20. It feels like such a long time ago….I’m officially nearly ancient now….
And essential birthday fare is french toast 9with half a gallon of maple syrup0…I love it!
Mel @ avirtualvegan.com recently posted…Artichoke Farro (or Sorghum) from Ancient Grains by Kim Lutz & Giveaway
I did! Thank you dear (I may have just eaten one of these cookies I had frozen…cookies = breakfast!)
Well yea! The syrup…we just need a swimming pool of syrup!
How fun, happy birthday to you!! These are so adorable 🙂
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Funfetti always makes me so happy 🙂 love these thumbprint cookies!
Cristina @ I Say Nomato recently posted…The Wednesday Showcase #51
So does!
Happy happy birthday! Hope you had a great day! Thumbprint cookies hold such a special place in my heart – bring me back to childhood! These sound delicious!
Ashley@CookNourishBliss recently posted…Sweet Potato Corn Chowder
Isn’t Funfetti the best?
Thank you so much Ashley! xo
I love this recipe! I’m going to make it tonight.
It’s going to be a good night!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 😀 hope you had a fab day lovely and ate lots of yummy food like these delicious cookies! 😀
I did, I did! Thank you dear!
Happy Birthday, girl!
Cookies are the best way to celebrate!
~jules
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They are! Thanks Jules!
Happy Birthay, my friend! I hope you had an amazing day. 🙂 Those lovely pillows of sugary goodness look delicious.
Linda @ Veganosity recently posted…Vegan Whole Wheat Strawberry Muffins
I did! Thank you Linda!!
These are adorable!
Thanks!
Happy birthday here again 🙂
These cookies look super cute!
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Happy birthday girlie! I hope you had a FABULOUS day full of gluten free goodies like this one, fun with family and friends and time to relax! Stay awesome 😉
Casey the College Celiac recently posted…Gluten Free Recipe Round Up: Lunches for Work
Haha, it was pretty good 🙂 Thank you Casey!
Happppyyy birthday, sweet girl! This looks like the perfect birthday treat! Especially because everything is better with sprinkles!
My go to birthday breakfast is anything with strawberries. Sounds odd but winter strawberries are PERFECT by my birthday each year and so I always have some kind of strawberry involving breakky 😛
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Happy Birthday my friend. It was fun to read about your 20-year-old wisdom, and I must say… you are wise beyond your years. I hope you had a great day and ate a lot of these Funfettie Thumbprint Cookies.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! Gah! You’re only 20?!? Now I feel really old! Ha!!! These cookies look like a great way to celebrate – so fun! I hope you’re having a wonderful day, my friend! Enjoy a cookie (or two) for me! XO <3
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Beautiful cookies and pictures perfect for my coffee. I am not a baker but would try making yoru recipe.
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Happy birthday Rebecca! These are so cute and fun to celebrate any occasion!
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Thank you Uma 🙂
Pancakes are also my essential birthday breakfast. I’ll be honest, my whole 20’s (I’m 27) is not how I pictured it…not in a bad way, but just completely different!! The good thing?! It’s been a fun time and I’ve learned a lot about myself 🙂
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It’s definitely a CRAZY time in all our lives!
HUG HUG! LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART! Happy Birthday to my very SMART, very STRONG, TALENTED AND BEAUTIFUL daughter! I love to see your smile… It brings SUNSHINE to my heart <3
Xoxoxoxoxoxoxo Love you <3
Well at least you have a future idea for a post with funfetti pancakes 🙂 Who doesn’t love these cookies? I mean seriously, funfetti just means happiness, right?!
Chrissa – Physical Kitchness recently posted…30 Second Paleo Microwave Crepes
It does to me!!! Haha! Gotta have those rainbow sprinkles!!
Happy Birthday! Your cookies are so cute and look delicious!
Thank you so much Diana!
These are so fun! My little ones would go crazy for these. Yum!
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Yes they would 😉
Happy birthday Rebecca!! I love you Dad
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Happy birthday Rebecca! These cookies look like the perfect way to celebrate 😉 Hope you had an amazing day xx
Thank you dear!
Rebecca, love the cake-like cookie recipe and your post. It’s so fun to read what you’ve learned by your 20th birthday.
Thanks Nicole!
Happy Birthday! And these cookies are the perfect and fun way to celebrate!
Thank you Christine!
LOVE funfetti anything! Happy Birthday 🙂
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These are SO cute, and of course I think that sprinkles make everything awesome! 😀
Hannah @CleanEatingVeggieGirl recently posted…The Best Paleo Ice Cream Recipes
Sprinkles make the world a better place 😉
Happy Birthday, Rebecca! Such a fun and cool idea!
Thank you so much Florian!
Happy birthday Rebecca!!! What a fun way to celebrate! I personally love love love these cookies and might have to make some for my birthday on Friday!! Love a Gemini! Your insights in this post are pretty awesome. Don’t beat yourself up too much though, you have a ton of amazing experiences coming your way in the next 10+ years as you go through your 20’s!!
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xoxoxo Thank you!
Happy birthday Rebecca! Have a great day and enjoy these super fun cookies!
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Happy Birthday! Today is my youngest daughters bday as well! These cookies are super cute!
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These are adorable, and your photos are fantastic! We will put this in the cookie rotation for sure!
Glad to hear that!
Happy Birthday!! These cookies look amazing, can’t wait to give the recipe a go!
Thank you so much!
I think there is a good hard learning crisis to be had at any age, lol! But I totally agree that we make or break ourselves. I spent too long breaking and I’m focusing energy on the other end now 🙂 happy birthday!! Love the funfetti and glad you chose cookies.
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And that is what we should try for!
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Happy Birthday Rebecca! No better way to celebrate than with sprinkles 🙂
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Happy Birthday!!!! Is it wrong that I want to eat the whole plate of these adorable little cookies? Love!
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It could never be wrong 😉
Happy birthday, Rebecca! My life was so different than I imagined at age 20 (just last year lol) but, really, it was better than I pictured. Being surrounded with good friends and family is all I really needed :). I hope you have a great day!
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Happy birthday! A quarter lifr crisis is a true struggle, but if you surround yourself with the right people and stay focused on your goals, you’ll make it through!
We can only hope!
Happy birthday! What lovely, festive cookies! 🙂
Thank you dear!
At age 20? Young and carefree! And who doesn’t love anything funfetti???
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Happy Birthday!! Hope you have a fantastic day filled with sprinkles everywhere! As far as this recipe is concerned it’s GREAT! I love little cookies to snack on or send to school with the kids. This is a PERFECT recipe to keep on hand all summer long!
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Yes! These cookies are perfect for anything!
Thank you!
Yay Happy Birthday to you! No better way to celebrate than with these little beauties 🙂
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They look delicious and so fun! When I was living in Australia, I learned that there, they call the funfetti “hundreds of thousands.” So great!
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Happy birthday! I hope it is a fabulous day to kick off a fabulous year. And let me tell you, the life crises have only begun, but the trick is that now you have more perspective and greater support to help you through them all!
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Haha, yes 😉
Thank you Susie!! xoxo
HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS – these cookies are so cute and delish looking – i’d sub the frosting for the pillsbury vanilla – my weakness is frosting….
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