Rainbow Sugar Cookies
Creating a vibrant and magical Rainbow Cookie Cake is actually quite easy! This is one dessert that delights anyone who sees it!
Servings: 7 mini cakes
Ingredients
- 1 c 2 sticks or 226g unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/2 c 188g confectioner’s sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. almond extract
- 2 1/2 c 313g all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- Red Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple Food Coloring
Instructions
- In a stand mixer cream together the butter and sugar.
- With the mixer off, add in egg. Turn mixer on low and add in extracts.
- With mixer on low slowly add in flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Mix until incorporated and dough is no longer sticky. If necessary, you can add up to 1/2 cup more flour.
- Remove dough from bowl and divide into dough balls. Each ball is about 1/2 cup of dough.
- Add food coloring to each individual dough ball and incorporate with your hands. This works best if you have gloves!
- Once color is incorporated, chill dough for 30 minutes or up to overnight.
- When ready to bake roll out dough and cut out with round cookie cutter.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until center of cookie does not look "wet". Do not let the edges brown.