Rainbow Sugar Cookies

5 from 1 vote

Colorful rainbow sugar cookies that are soft melt in your mouth, crispy crunch on the outside, dusted with the color of the rainbow sanding sugar, for a perfect cookie to brighten the day.

Prep Time30

Cook Time20

Course: Snack/Dessert

Servings:

Calories: 111kcal

Ingredients

For the Sanding Sugar:

1/2 cup white sugar
3 to 4 drops food coloring (color of your choice)

For the Rainbow Sugar Cookies:

2/3 cup unsalted butter (still cool but pilable)
1 1/2 cup white sugar
2 cold eggs
2 TBS milk
1 TBS vanilla
3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 cup sanding sugar in each color; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple

Instructions

For the Sanding Sugar:

Preheat oven to 120 degrees or lowest temperature possible for your oven (mine was 170 degrees)
Line baking sheet with parchment paper
Pour 1/2 cup of white sugar into a small airtight baggie
Add 3 to 4 drops of food coloring of your choice into the bag
Seal bag, removing as much air as possible
Squish sugar in the bag with your fingers until food coloring is evenly distributed and sugar is color desired
Spread colored sugar into 1 layer on baking sheet
Bake at low temperature for 10 minutes
Remove from oven and cool
Using the parchment paper like a funnel pour baking into the bag
Seal bag, removing air
Break sugar clumps apart with rolling pin
Store in airtight container
Repeat for each color desired (if mixing colors, premix in a small bowl before adding to sugar)

For the Rainbow Sugar Cookies:

LIne baking sheet with parchment paper
Slice cool but pilable butter into 1 TBS slices
Cream in mixer
Add sugar and cream additional 2 to 3 minutes
Beat in eggs, vanilla, and milk until creamy
In another bowl, add flour (measure using scoop and level method), salt, baking powder, and nutmeg
Shift dry ingredients into wet ingredients
Mix together until all is combined
Scoop 1 inch balls of cookie dough and place on baking sheet, continue until all dough is scooped into balls
Refrigerate for 2 hours at minimum
Remove dough for fridge
Roll each ball of dough into a smoother ball
Pour each bag of colored sanding sugar into its own bowl
Roll each ball in sanding sugar to cover completely
Divide number of cookie dough balls evenly between the colors using, so you have same amount of balls per color
Return to fridge for 30 minutes
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Line another baking sheet with parchment paper
Remove 12 cookie balls from fridge and place on baking sheet, keep remaining balls in fridge in between baking
Bake for 7 minutes
Remove from oven, bang pan down slightly on counter, to help flatten cookies
Cool for 5 minutes, remove to cooling rack to continue cooling
Store in airtight container
Repeat until all cookies are baked

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