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Rainbow Butter Cookies Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Thegoldminer / All my dishes 11 months, 1 week ago This recipe was posted by minitindel. They were colorful and tasty as she said and made a treat for the cookie plate.If you don't read all the directions at least read the last paragraph :-) Give her kudos for posting the original recipe. Click on any pic to enlarge. ... More Prep:30m Cook:12m Servings:24	Thegoldmine
	labor intensive but fun

Butter and Sugars

Mixing

Mixed butter & sugar

Egg, vanilla, soda e

Flour

Mixing

Mixed

Divided

Food coloring

Cute hand color

Colored and ready

Ready to flatten

9 x 5 inches

Make a log

Karate chops

Ready to chill

On wax paper to chil

First cut

A layer

Or two

Milk

Brush on milk coatin

Layering

Layered

Second cut

Half wrapped

Both wrapped

Trimming

More trimming

Start cutting cookie

Cute pieces

Whoa Psychedelic

Regular

Pecans & peppermint

Compare both styles

Spacing too far apar

Closer spacing

Nice

A batch

Real rainbows-FINAL!

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Ingredients

• 1/2- cup plus 2 tablespoons butter softened

• 1/2- cup packed brown sugar

• 1/4- cup sugar

• 1 - egg

• 1- teaspoon vanilla extract

• 2- cups all-purpose flour

• 1/2- teaspoon each baking powder and salt

• 1/8 - teaspoon baking soda

• Red, yellow, green food coloring - about 15 drops of each color

• milk

• chopped pecans

• peppermint flavoring

Directions

1. In a large bowl , cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy

2. Add egg and vanilla mix well

3. Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda in a separate bowl

4. Gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.

5. Divide dough into 3 portions (they should weigh 7 ounces each)

6. Tint each portion a different color. Flatten the ball and make a pocket to hold the coloring. It wants to run out of the dough so work it in carefully. Makes pretty hands.

7. Chill all balls of dough.

8. Carefully roll each portion of the dough on waxed paper into a 9 inch x 5 inch rectangle pan........ freeze for 10 minutes. The dough wanted to stick to my rolling pin (wine bottle) so I made the ball into a log and then gave it karate chops to flatten, then used my palms to get it an even flat layer. I think I could have lightly floured the flatten log a little and then used more milk to remove the flour once flattened. I will try this next time. The original recipe didn’t mention to chill first so that was probably the sticking problem. I was following the recipe.

9. Cut each rectangle in half lengthwise (see pic)

10. Lightly brush top of each rectangle with milk except the sixth layer

11. Top with another colored dough layer and slightly press the layers together.

12. Keep removing layers from waxed paper, brush top with milk and press each layer slightly to bind to each other.

13. Use remaining dough, alternating the colors to make 6 layers.

14. Keep pressing layers together lightly

15. Once all six 9 by 2 1/2 layers are done, cut again in half lengthwise, now they are 9 x 1 ¼ inches. See pic

16. Wrap each with plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours or even overnight. I waited about an hour and they were cold enough to cut.

17. Unwrap dough cut into 1/8 inch slices....... see pics

18. Place them about 1/4 inches apart on cookie sheets. I sprayed each sheet with canola spray, very lightly, smeared it around the sheet with finger tips to make a very fine layer, easier to remove from the cookie sheet. The dough barely spreads so this spacing is fine

19. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes at 350 degrees f.

20. Cool for 2-5 minutes before removing them from the pans to wire racks to cool completely.......

21. Yields 4 dozen cookies.

22. They were fun to make for Christmas cookies, just for the rainbow look and colors.

23. I added the pecans and peppermint just for the fun of it and they were well received.

24. I curved some of the cut pieces to resemble rainbows, I mean they are called Rainbow cookies!!!!!!!!!

25. Funny story on the cookies. I had red on the mind, and as I put reddish drops on the dough and mixed it in, it wouldn’t get red! So from 10 drops I got to 50!!!!! Still not red, what the _ell. I turned around and looked and there, there on the counter laid a yellow cap!!!!!!!!!!!! In the small amount of gray matter in the shell on my shoulders, I was making red first and the yellow drops were reddish in color, but I can tell you, all the yellow in the world won’t make RED. Next was green, then the real red. I used a lot of potty mouth words that I called myself -:)

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thegoldminer 11 months, 1 week ago said:
This took about 3 hours to post so if I have made a mistake in grammar somewhere let me know. 2 am, better quit for the night. Enjoy, JJ. A little Alice's Restaurant in the last paragraph "if you know what I mean".

clbacon 11 months, 1 week ago said:
Beautiful! Kudos to you and Minitindel!

momo_55grandma 11 months, 1 week ago said:
Great cookies Tink and JJ awsome picyures ya all need to work as a team . or become Chefs . My grandkids will love these thanks

jett2whit 11 months, 1 week ago said:
These are beautiful JJ! Kudos to tink too!

peetabear 11 months, 1 week ago said:
Jj very nice photos as always... nice step by step directions... thank you to tink for recipe and you for the follow up... ^5

lunasea 11 months, 1 week ago said:
Very nice, JJ! Kudos to you and to Tink...yayyy!! Nice pics...high 5.... :)

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