Bailey's Irish Cream Sugar Cookies

Frank's Red Hot used to have a commercial where an old woman would say "I puts that sh*t on everything." This statement tends to apply to me, except instead of hot sauce it is Bailey's Irish cream liqueur, and I love putting it in baked goods. Especially around St. Patrick's Day, when I feel like all baked goods should incorporate Irish liquors. These Bailey's Irish Cream Sugar Cookies incorporate Irish cream in two places. It doesn't always have to be Irish cream though, I'm a big fan of putting Guinness in chocolate cakes, and Irish whiskey in ganaches. You can see my Boozy Irish Cake with all three of those incorporated here.

Cakes are hard to make and take a lot of work though. Cookies are much easier to make. These Irish Cream sugar cookies are fairly simple, and taste amazing because there is Irish cream in both the cookie dough and the frosting. I don't recommend skipping the frosting, but if you don't want to take the extra step you can skip it and just make the cookies (with or without the sprinkles). They still taste really good. If you want to add the sprinkles and skip the frosting, just add them to the top of the cookie dough before baking them.

But if you want the extra flavor, you definitely wont want to skip the frosting. It's really creamy and delicious, and the Irish cream isn't too overpowering. Its hard not to lick up all the frosting and eat it just by itself.