Rainbow Marbled Cookies
A fun and easy tutorial that walks you through how to create beautiful rainbow marbled cookies.
Equipment
- mixing bowls
- food gel colors
- food safe gloves optional but recommended
- sugar cookie recipe
Instructions
- Separate equal parts of the dough into different bowls, or onto a large platter. Separate as many parts of dough as you will be coloring the dough. Ie: if using all 6 colors of the rainbow, separate 6 equal dough parts.
- Add 2 to 3 drops of one food coloring into the first dough ball and use your hands to mix in well. I recommend using food safe gloves to keep hands from staining.
- Roll colored dough piece length wise and inside a large bowl. Repeat above steps with each color and lay each colored piece against one another until done.
- Use a 3 tbsp ice cream scoop and begin to lightly scoop the dough from one end to the other. You only want to lightly brush the surface so you are able to pull in all the colors. Place on baking sheet at least 2" apart.
- Repeat until no more dough remains. If you do have some remaining dough as you clean off excess, place in a separate bowl for afterwards.
- For the remaining excess dough, combine in bowl with only a few folds and gently so not to blend the colors together too much.
- Scoop dough with 3 tbsp ice cream scoop and place on baking sheet at least 2" apart.
- I recommend baking the cookies to the recipe you chose. A lower bake temperature (350 F) is ideal to ensure the colors do not darken much.
- Allow cookies to cool before enjoying.
Notes
Be Prepared. Have your cookie dough ready, along with the supplies you will need. This will help you flow through the process must faster and with less stress.
Bake Them Low And Slow. This is a tough baking tip only because I'm not sharing my recipe yet...which means that you would need to alter the recipe you are using. You don't have to but a helpful tip for achieving vibrant colors in cookies is to make them at a lower bake setting. I recommend at least 350 F and watching for light browning along the edges.
Color Makes Perfect. The point of this tutorial is to make your cookies look rainbow, and they will all be unique in their own way.
Variations: stuff with a golden Oreo, or coat in granular sugar for a sparkly cookie. Or you can dip in white chocolate for extra delicious sweetness.
