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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!

Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 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!

Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 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!

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!

Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 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!

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.

Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 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!

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.

Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 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!

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.

Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 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!

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.

Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 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!

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.

Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 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!

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

Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 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!

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Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies

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!

  • Author: Rebecca Pytell
  • Cook Time: 20 mins
  • Total Time: 20 mins
  • Yield: 14 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Cuisine: American
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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, combine all cookie ingredients and mix to form a well combined batter.
  3. 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.
  4. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
  5. 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.
  6. In a small bowl, mix together the cream cheese ingredients (not the spinkelz), until you get a soft frosting texture.
  7. Fill the centers of the cookies with 1 teaspoon each of the cream cheese frosting and then sprinkle the center with additional sprinkelz.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1

 Funfetti Thumbprint Cookies | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 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!

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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Comments

  1. masala girl says

    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 🙂

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Thank you, sweetheart!
      And yes! The expectations, even if they aren’t meant to be intentional, are way to high right now.

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  7. Nikki Frank-Hamilton says

    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?

    Reply

  8. Farrah says

    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

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  9. Debbie says

    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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  11. Lucie says

    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

    Reply

  12. Marla says

    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!

    Reply

  14. kimmythevegan says

    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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  17. Kelly @ TastingPage says

    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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  19. Molly Kumar says

    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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  20. Mel @ avirtualvegan.com says

    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!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      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!

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  31. Kristy @ Southern In Law says

    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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  32. Mary says

    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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  33. Mandy says

    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

    Reply

    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Thank you so much Mandy!!! xoxoxoxoxo (p.s. we never are “old” unless we say it is so!)

      Reply

  36. Tara | Treble in the Kitchen says

    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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  37. MOM says

    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

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  48. Sam @ PancakeWarriors says

    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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  53. Michele says

    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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  56. Emily @ My Healthyish Life says

    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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  60. Kaitie says

    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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  62. Laura says

    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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  63. Susie @ SuzLyfe says

    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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  64. Amber says

    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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