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Recipe Rainbows (Cookie)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup white sugar
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- assorted colors of paste food coloring
- 4 tablespoons prepared vanilla frosting
- 1/4 cup yellow decorator sugar
Preparing/Cooking:
- Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg, vanilla and almond extracts.
- Gradually add the flour and salt.
- Beat at low speed until well blended.
- Divide dough into 10 equal sections.
- Combine 4 sections of he dough with red paste-type coloring until smooth.
- Combine 3 sections of the dough with green coloring until smooth.
- Combine 2 sections of the dough with yellow coloring until smooth, and combine remaining dough with blue coloring.
- Wrap each section of dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Shape blue dough into an 8-inch log.
- Shape yellow dough into 8x3-inch rectangle; place on waxed paper.
- Place blue log in center of yellow rectangle and fold yellow edges up around blue log, pinching to form seal.
- Roll to form smooth log.
- Roll green dough into 8x5-inch rectangle.
- Place yellow log in center, pinch edges of green to seal; roll smooth.
- Roll red dough into 8x7-inch rectangle.
- Place green log in center, pinch edges of red to seal and roll smooth.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Lightly grease or line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Cut log in half length-wise.
- Cut each half into 1/4 inch slices.
- Place slices 1 inch apart on prepared baking sheets.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 8 to 12 minutes.
- (Do not brown.
- ) Cool on cookie sheets 1 minute.
- Remove to wire racks and let cool completely.
- Pipe small amount of white frosting on bottom corner of each cookie to resemble a cloud.
- Sprinkle with yellow decorating sugar.
- Let stand until frosting is set.
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