rainbow sugar cookies

What better way to celebrate St Patricks Day or any day for that matter, than with rainbow sugar cookies! Now i wouldn't have been able to do this if i hadn't have seen Cheeky Kitchen's fabulous blog! She did an amazing job on her cookies, colour, shape and that difficult little shamrock centre...which i gave up on and made plain green rounds instead =)



As you can see my rainbow ones turned out quite well, first time round, not bad! I cannot wait to make these again! They were a hit at my husbands work, he said that all 80 biccies dissappeared in about five minutes!

I made the ones with rainbow edges....now these are fun and simply GORGEOUS to look at!
And i made up a rainbow swirl, with the left over coloured dough pieces, by layering the colours in stripes across a rectangle of plain cookie dough and rolling up to slice off and bake.

Ah, here are my plain green ones that did once aspire to be shamrock centred. I didn't quite master it and must admit i got frustrated and just smooshed the dough! And baked it.

Next time i will try the hardest first so i can take a break, because by the time i started these i had made all the other ones and kinda run outta time and patience, practice will make perfect, but it's not a bad thing to want it to work straight away! =)

The only thing i did different to Cheeky Kitchen's recipe is used my own sugar cookie dough, which i am used to making in bulk and handling. I also didn't fill them with creme, trying to be a little good....just a little! I can't afford the best food colourings yet, i have my eye on some though, so my colours aren't as bright as they could be, but i'm happy!

My Sugar Cookie Recipe - Makes about 80


1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
4 cups all purpose flour

Cream together the butter and sugar, add vanilla, egg, salt, then slowly mix in sifted flour and baking powder until it makes a firm dough. I always add a little milk if it needs more moisture, never more than a tsp or so.

Colour, roll, mould, shape the dough to what ever you need and bake for 10 minutes at 180C/350F. I like them just cooked through but not browned too much. You'll get a feel for it.

These cookies look wondeful stacked, such fabulous colours to eat =)

THANKYOU Cheeky Kitchen!