Rainbow Swirl Sugar Cookies

Blogger Brooke McLay from Cheeky Kitchen turns cookies into a truly colorful treat with these easy Rainbow Swirl Sugar Cookies.

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ingredients 4
Prep Time 20 min
Total Time 45 min

Ingredients

1: roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies

1: box classic gel food colors

1: cup all-purpose flour

1/2: cup sparkling sugar or turbinado sugar

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Directions

1 Heat oven to 350°F.
2 Divide dough into 5 equal parts. Tint each with a different gel food color (red, orange [mix red and yellow], yellow, green, blue), and add 2 tablespoons of the flour to each to keep from becoming overly sticky.
3 On work surface, place 2 pieces cooking parchment paper. Sprinkle a bit of the remaining flour onto 1 of the pieces of parchment paper. Use rolling pin to roll red dough to 8x3x1/4 inch. Transfer this dough to other piece of parchment paper. Repeat with orange, yellow, green and blue pieces of dough, placing each color on top of the other until they are all stacked in rainbow order--red, orange, yellow, green, blue.
4 Use sharp knife to cut edges of dough to even out rectangle. Starting at long side of dough, roll up.
5 Sprinkle parchment paper with sparkling sugar. Roll dough gently in sugar until coated. Cut into 1/2-inch slices with sharp knife, then press one side of each round into sparkling sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet, sugar side up.
6 Bake 7 to 10 minutes or just until set. Cool slightly before removing to cooling rack.

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Go team! Mix the rainbow colors and make these cookies using just two colors--the colors of your favorite team.

Get neon! Try making these cookies using neon gel food colors for some extra-fun oomph!

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report Posted Aug. 9, 2012 6:40 AM

My daughter who's 10 say these ahd HADE to make them--I thought it looked rather EZ so we did--posted a photo essay on my blog-http://anoterote.blogspot.com/2012/08/kooking-with-kayleigh-rainbow-cookies.html over all they came out very good!

Imjulieann2

report Posted Aug. 7, 2012 1:23 PM

Really enjoyed making these with my granddaughter. Easy and very tasty!

SurelyShirley

report Posted Aug. 5, 2012 2:51 PM

Pootsyanne, approximately how many cookies did the recipe make? I need to make at least 36. Do I need to double?

dadlawan

report Posted Aug. 1, 2012 3:41 PM

This recipe seems fairly easy and fun, cant wait to try it. What they are saying is to divide the dough into 4 parts, dye each part a different color, roll out each piece into 1/4 inch rectangles, stack them on top of each other, roll them long ways into a solid tube, looking like a a solid paper towel roll, then slice the roll into 1/2 inch circles, similar to cinnamon rolls.

maggiefl

report Posted Aug. 1, 2012 11:22 AM

Truthfully, I do not quite understand the directions. And I do a lot of baking. You should put this on a video. Margaret Gannon