Rainbow Cookies!

So for our third lab we made rainbow cookies!! The cookies for this recipes was not only easy to make but delicious also!

Finished Product

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:

1. In a large bowl, cream together margarine and sugar. 
2. Add one egg at a time. Beat until well incorporated. Add the vanilla
3.  Sift together dry ingredients in a medium bowl.
4. Slowly stir the flour mixture into the creamed mixture.
5. Divide the dough into 5 unequal amounts.

   

   Dividing the dough

   
   

6. Mix in 2-3 drops of food colouring to each amount. (blue in smallest dough, red in the biggest etc.)
7. 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.

   

   Rolling the dough

   
   

8. Put in the freezer for 10 minutes or until the dough hardens (you could put it in the refrigerator overnight too).

   

   How it should look

   
   

9. Slice the cookies and then cut them in half and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Shape them if you want.

   

   How the cookies looked when we sliced them

   
   

   

   The cookies cut in half. We shaped them a little with our hands

   
   

   
   

10.   Bake in a 350°F or 180°C for 8-10 minutes
11. Let it sit on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then move them to a cooling rack to cool completely.

 Our Product:

Side view

Our first slice - looks weird

Before they go in the oven

Close up on them before we baked them

In the oven, they're going to flatten out

Done! We made a whole army of them :D

Close up.

They don't all have to be perfect.

 

What they look like when you break them in half.