So for our third lab we made rainbow cookies!! The cookies for this recipes was not only easy to make but delicious also!
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| Finished Product |
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The recipe:
Ingredients:
- 250 ml of margarine
- 250 ml of sugar
- 2 eggs
- 5 ml of vanilla extract
- 625 ml of flour
- 5 ml baking soda
- 10 ml of cream of tartar
- 2 ml salt
- Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red food coloring
Method:
- In a large bowl, cream together margarine and sugar.
- Add one egg at a time. Beat until well incorporated. Add the vanilla
- Sift together dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
- Slowly stir the flour mixture into the creamed mixture.
- Divide the dough into 5 unequal amounts.
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| Dividing the dough |
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- Mix in 2-3 drops of food colouring to each amount. (blue in smallest dough, red in the biggest etc.)
- Start by rolling the smallest ball into a snake (blue). Then roll out the next colour into a rectangle and cover the snake with the rectangle until all the dough is used up.
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| Rolling the dough |
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- Put in the freezer for 10 minutes or until the dough hardens (you could put it in the refrigerator overnight too).
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| How it should look |
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- Slice the cookies and then cut them in half and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Shape them if you want.
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| How the cookies looked when we sliced them |
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| The cookies cut in half. We shaped them a little with our hands | |
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- Bake in a 350°F or 180°C for 8-10 minutes
- Let it sit on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then move them to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Our Product:
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| Side view |
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| Our first slice - looks weird |
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| Before they go in the oven |
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| Close up on them before we baked them |
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| In the oven, they're going to flatten out |
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| Done! We made a whole army of them :D |
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| Close up. |
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| They don't all have to be perfect. |
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| What they look like when you break them in half. |
