🌈 Rainbow Shortbread Bites
✨ Tiny, colorful, and dangerously addictive!
🥄 What Are They?
These bite-sized shortbread cubes are packed with cheerful rainbow sprinkles and big flavor. They’re ridiculously cute, super easy to make, and best of all — they’re only ~60 calories for 10 bites. Yes, TEN!
😍 Why We’re Obsessed
🌀 It’s January. It’s cold. It’s grey.
🍰 But then — BAM! — these little sprinkle-studded joy bombs enter the chat.
🎯 One look and your winter blues start melting away.
🎂 Backstory (with a Dash of Drama)
I found this recipe while snooping through my sister’s Pinterest (she pinned my 🎉 Blue Bear Birthday Cake), and let’s just say:
All my baking plans? Canceled.
These rainbow bites got promoted to priority status... and can you blame me?
🥶 Real Talk: January Sucks
🧊 Post-holiday gloom
📉 Nothing to look forward to
⚖️ Oh, and we're on a DIET 🙄
Tried Weight Watchers again... quit in 2 days.
Now we’re on MyFitnessPal (better, but let’s be honest — dieting still sucks).
🍪 Enter: Rainbow Shortbread Bites
✨ These little guys are a life raft made of butter and sprinkles.
They’re itty-bitty, so you get the satisfaction of eating more with fewer calories. (Trick your brain 101.)
🔪 The Breakdown
🧈 Ingredients:
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½ cup unsalted butter (room temp)
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¼ cup granulated sugar
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¼ tsp almond or vanilla extract
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1¼ cups all-purpose flour
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¼ tsp salt
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4 tsp rainbow sprinkles 🌈
🧁 How To Make Them
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🔥 Preheat oven to 325°F
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📦 Line an 8" square pan with parchment
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🧁 Cream butter & sugar, add extract
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🌀 Mix in flour, salt, and sprinkles
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✊ Knead into a ball and press into the pan
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❄️ Chill dough in fridge for 30 mins
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🔪 Lift & slice into ½” squares (yes, it’s worth it!)
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🧺 Bake for ~15 mins per sheet
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🆒 Cool completely and store in airtight container
📏 Makes:
256 mini bites (👀 sounds wild, but they disappear FAST)
🥄 Serving size: 10 bites
🔥 ~67 calories per serving
🌟 Customization Magic
These babies are a blank canvas for any celebration:
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💕 Valentine’s Day? Use pink sprinkles
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🎄 Christmas? Try red, green & gold
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👶 Baby shower? Pastels all the way
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🏈 Game day? Team colors FTW!
📦 Final Thoughts
Rainbow Shortbread Bites are:
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🎨 Customizable
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🍬 Adorable
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😋 Delicious
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🧁 Stupid-easy
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✨ Happiness in edible form
Make a batch. You’ll smile every time you open the container.