Spring Cookies

We celebrated Easter in a few ways.  A fun late-night Easter eggs hunt on Saturday, coloring eggs on Sunday, and I made some fun Spring sugar cookies.  I modified a recipe my sister-in-law posted on her blog, Stop and Read the Roses.  Her recipe called for butter and shortening, I don't actually own shortening, so I used just butter.  I also changed the temperature, and cooked mine a little longer than she did.


Spring Sugar Cookies

4 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract

Mix together the flour and baking soda.  My daughter loves to help bake, and mixing the dry ingredients is an easy, kid friendly step.

Cream butter, then add sugar and cream again.   Add the eggs and vanilla, and combine thoroughly.  Stir in the dry ingredients, mixing until just about all the flour is incorporated.  Divide the dough, depending on the number of colors you want to do.  Add the food coloring, and mix with your hands.  Don't worry, the food coloring will wash off.  Place each color in a separate plastic bag, and refrigerate for at least a couple hours.  I've left this dough in my fridge for about a week, and it is just as good.

Rainbows


My sister-in-law had the idea of doing the rainbows.  To make them you take a small amount of dough (about 1 teaspoon) and roll into a snake.  Repeat with 3 other colors, and place them together, bending them slightly to make an arc.  The colors melt together slightly when they bake.

Carrots


For the carrots, you roll about one half tablespoon of dough into a snake, about 4 inches long.  Roll about 1 teaspoon of green into a long snack, and fold in half.  Place the green dough at the top of the orange dough, and gently press it into the orange.  Then gently press the orange dough until it is about a quarter inch thick.  The carrots spread out when they cook.

Flowers


For the flowers, I rolled out the dough to about a eight inch, and then cut with a flower cutter.  You could make them a little thicker, and they would be softer.  Mine came out nice and crispy.

For all the cookies, bake at 375 for about 9 minutes.  Immediately transfer them to cooling racks.  Enjoy!

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