Rainbow Egg Cookies

Name: Rainbow Egg Cookies
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1 egg; 59 milliliters Gold all-purpose flour; 3 food colors; 18 servings White coarse sugar crystals or granulated sugar, if desired; 118 milliliters margarine or butter, melted; 1 pouch Betty sugar cookie mix; 1 tubs Betty Rich & Creamy vanilla ready-to-spread frosting

The recipe Rainbow Egg Cookies could satisfy your Southern craving in roughly 1 hour and 20 minutes. This dairy free recipe serves 18. This dessert has 116 calories, 1g of protein, and 6g of fat per serving. If you have granulated sugar, margarine, food colors, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Heat oven to 37

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Stir cookie mix, margarine, flour and egg until soft dough forms. Divide dough evenly among 3 bowls; tint each dough by stirring in a few drops of desired food color. For a variety of colors, make several batches of cookies.

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Cookie Mix

Food Color

Margarine

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Bowl

Shape 1/3 cup of each color of dough into a rope about 5 inches long and 1 inch in diameter.

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Dough

Place ropes side by side and a little more than 1/4 inch apart on floured surface; roll until 1/4 inch thick.

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Roll

Cut with 2- to 2 1/2-inch egg-shaped cookie cutter so each cookie has 3 colors.

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Egg

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Cookie Cutter

Sprinkle with sugar.

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Sugar

Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining dough. (When rerolling doughscraps, carefully lay matching colors together. For marbled cookies, mix colors of dough scraps- but don't mix colors too much or they won't be distinct.)

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Dough

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Baking Sheet

Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.

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Baking Sheet

Wire Rack

Oven

Spread frosting on bottoms of half the cookies. Top with remaining cookies.

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Frosting

Spread

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Servings:

egg 59milliliters

Gold all-purpose flour 3

food colors 18servings

White coarse sugar crystals or granulated sugar, if desired 118milliliters

margarine or butter, melted 1pouch

Betty sugar cookie mix 1tubs

Betty Rich & Creamy vanilla ready-to-spread frosting

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Southern on the menu? Try pairing with Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. You could try Schloss Vollrads Riesling Spatlese. Reviewers quite like it with a 4 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 29 dollars per bottle.