Cookies/ Desserts

Rainbow Sugar Cookies

A yummy, simple sugar cookie dyed in several colors to create a crazy, colorful sugar cookie that’s rolled in sprinkles!  No chilling required for this cookie dough either!

This cookie is super easy to make…and I have included pictures to give you a step by step tutorial on how to make these.

Make your sugar cookie dough and then divide into how many separate bowls you need for the different colors you are using (you can use as many colors or as few as  you want…I used four).  Add the dye to your bowls of sugar cookie.  I rolled the balls into 1-inch balls.

After you have rolled all your dough into balls, you are going to take a ball of each color and put them together and then roll them into one large dough ball (looks like a beach ball).

Balls

Next you roll the dough ball out like a snake.  The one above was a little long…I recommend 4-inches so the cookies don’t get super flat.  Then you coil the dough up tightly like you would with a cinnamon roll, then press the sides of the cookie dough in sprinkles!

Rainbow Sugar Cookies

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Serves: 24 Cooking Time: 10-Minutes

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup white granulated sugar
  • 1 egg, room temperature
  • 2-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract (I used clear imitation vanilla extract for more of a bakery taste)
  • 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
  • 2-1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • food coloring and sprinkles in your desired colors

Instructions

1

Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.

2

In the bowl of a stand mixer, affixed with the paddle attachment, add the butter and beat until smooth and creamy. Add the sugar to the butter and beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and vanilla and almond extracts to the sugar mixture. Change the speed of the mixer to low and slowly add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and nutmeg to the sugar mixture, mixing until barely combined.

3

Remove the bowl from the mixer. Get a small bowl for each color of dye you are using. Evenly divide the dough between the bowls. Add the dye to each ball of dough. Roll 1-inch balls of dough until all dough is in little balls. Take a ball of each color and put the balls together and roll to form one large dough ball. Roll ball into a snake-like shape, approximately 4-inches in length. Tightly coil the cookie dough into itself (like a cinnamon roll), then roll the sides of the cookies in sprinkles.

4

Place cookies a few inches apart on the prepared cookie sheets. Cookies will spread a bit.

5

Bake in 350-degree oven for 10-minutes. Let cookies set on the cookie sheet for 10-minutes, before moving to a cooling rack to finish cooling!

Notes

Store in an air tight container at room temperature.

XOXO, Kelly

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7 Comments

  • Reply
    Pamela @ Brooklyn Farm Girl
    January 9, 2017 at 1:31 PM

    There’s something about rainbow cookies that get me every single time – I love them! I’m going to pin these to enjoy soon!

    • Reply
      Kelly
      January 10, 2017 at 5:59 AM

      Hi Pamela! Glad you liked these! Rainbow cookies are the best…they just make me happy looking at them 🙂 XOXO

  • Reply
    jamesw1289
    January 10, 2017 at 5:34 PM

    So I’m the lucky guy that gets to try 99% of the amazing things Kelly makes. I take my job as Chief Executive Taste Tester (or Husband 😉) very seriously so when I say these are hands down my new favorite cookie don’t take that statement lightly! No lie I had five cookies in a matter of minutes. Soft, perfect flavor, colorful AND sprinkles… winner!!!!

    • Reply
      Kelly
      January 10, 2017 at 5:51 PM

      Yay!! Such a simple cookie so I was surprised this became your new favorite cookie. But I guess sometimes the classics are the best, right?!?! Love you my CETT and husband 🙂

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    theninjabaker
    March 26, 2017 at 5:13 PM

    Nieces are indeed made for spoiling =) Love her little Minnie dress, too! Trust her surgery recovery is well under way…And I’m sure your rainbow cookies brightened the process.

    • Reply
      Kelly
      March 27, 2017 at 8:08 AM

      Thank you!! My nieces loved the cookies and Miss G has healed up and is back to her rambunctious self hehehe. Xoxo 🙂

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