Colorful Sugar Cookies Recipes

COLORFUL SUGAR COOKIES RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Cream the sugar and butter into a large bowl. Once fluffy, add in the flour.
• Add the vanilla extract, milk/water into the bowl and mix.
• Add the food coloring, mix, and bake for 10-15 minutes.
• Let them cool, and sprinkle with sugar.
• Enjoy!

COLORFUL CANDY BAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Beat cookie dough and flour until combined. Shape 2 teaspoons dough around each candy bar. Roll in colored sugar. , Place 2 in. apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake until set, 9-11 minutes. Cool on pans 1 minute. Remove to wire racks to cool.

COLOR-FIELD COOKIES

Steps:

• Prepare the glaze: Combine box of confectioners' sugar, corn syrup, lemon juice and 3 tablespoons warm water in a medium bowl. Stir with a fork to combine well, slowly adding water as needed to achieve the desired consistency. You should have 2 cups total. Test the glaze on a cookie as you go: If it doesn't spread out on its own to a smooth finish within 10 seconds, it is too thick and needs more water. If it runs off the edge of the cookie, it's too thin and needs more confectioners' sugar.
• Let glaze sit, tightly covered, until ready to use, stirring occasionally. The glaze will keep for at least a week in a small airtight container like a glass jar.
• Decorate the cookies: Pour about 1/3 cup glaze into a small, wide bowl. Starting with a light gel food coloring, mix in color until desired shade is reached. Holding a cookie by the edges, with the top-side down, dip into the glaze, moving the cookie around a bit to make sure it coats the whole surface. Gently shake the cookie from side to side to let the excess glaze drip off.
• Use a small offset spatula to stop the flow of icing, gently scrape cookie against edge of bowl, and flip the cookie over. Use the spatula to spread the icing to pop any air bubbles, and make sure it goes all the way to the edges. The glaze should quickly smooth out on its own. If not, thin it out a bit until it does. Use your fingers to wipe away any icing on the outside edges.
• Continue in this way until you have mixed nine different colors and coated 2 or 3 of the cookies in each color. Let dry completely, a few hours. Cookies will keep in an airtight container up to 3 days.

TIE DYE COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together shortening and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla, blend well.
• Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly blend dry mix into wet until a dough forms.
• Divide dough into thirds or quarters and add one color to each batch. Work food coloring in well.
• Refrigerate for 30 minutes to 24 hours.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• On a lightly floured surface, combine two or three colors and lightly work together- just mash lightly so they don't blend too much. Roll out cookie dough to 1/4 inch thickness.
• Cut out desired shapes using a 2-inch cookie cutter. Transfer cut-outs to a cookie sheet. Continue until sheet is full. This recipe only makes 20-24 cookies, if you need more double the cookie dough.
• Bake for 6-7 minutes or until very lightly browned. remove from oven and transfer to a cooking rack. Repeat with the remaining dough.
• If you've tried this recipe, come back and let us know how it was!

COLORED SUGAR

Steps:

• Place sugar into a jar with a tight fitting lid. Drip the food coloring onto the sugar, close the lid, and shake vigorously for about 1 minute. Adjust color with additional food coloring and repeat if the color is too light.