Mission impossible: green sugar sprinkles

The hardest to find Christmas cookie decorating ingredient this year: green sugar sprinkles.

Blue, red, and purple sprinkles lined the Publix shelves. How many bottles of green? Zero.

Walmart’s kiosk featured every imaginable baking ingredient. Do you need dates or nuts? Lots to choose from. Chocolate sprinkles or teeny tiny multicolored balls? Plenty in stock. Silver balls or cinnamon bits? Load up your cart. Any bottles of green sprinkles? Nope.

With a new (new to us; we bought a used on online when last year’s plastic one broke) aluminum Mirro cookie press locked and loaded, we had to have green sprinkles for the Christmas tree cookies. When we checked online, we could have bought some for $7 on Amazon. No thanks.

My quest last weekend was to find green sprinkles. I was confident that the stores we don’t frequent may have them in stock. Like Target. I came up empty there. If I was making Hanukkah cookies, I’d be all set. The shelf was filled with dozens of bottles of blue sprinkles. No red or green.

On my way out of there, I saw a dollar store. What do you think? It can’t hurt to look. No luck. They had one bottle of multicolored sprinkles.

Around the corner was another Publix, one I rarely go to. I passed boxes of cake mixes, tubs of frosting, all kinds of birthday candles, and found the sprinkles. No green. But wait, what’s that hidden behind a hanging display of kabob skewers and bathtub squirt toys? Green sprinkles! And they were only $3.79.

Mission accomplished. Christmas was saved. The tree spritz cookies looked and tasted great.