Make It Monday: Rainbow Cookies

This is a great spring idea to create with your child, children or just for yourself.  

It was my son who came up with the idea.  I asked him what kind of cookies he wanted to make and he said, "Blue cookies!"  But once I got the food dye out he had to make every colour.  I made the cookies small so that if my kids wanted to choose more than one colour to eat they could.

You could do this with any cookie recipe really but here's how I made them:

I used the recipe for Chocolate chip cookies that came with my Baker's Secret Air Insulated cookie sheet.  The cookie sheet has no sides so it cooks the cookies evenly. And it is large to accommodate more cookies than the standard sheet thus fewer batches in and out of the oven which helps to save time.

Also this chocolate chip cookie recipe is the best I have tried.  And I have tried many!

Baker's Secret Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
1 c butter
3/4 c white sugar
3/4 c brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 c all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (*I prefer 1 c regular sized chips and 1c mini*)

*For Rainbow Cookies*:
use the above reipe and add a few drops of any food dye colour or combination of food dye colours.

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350F.  Grease sheets for best results.
2. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy.  Add one egg at a time, beating well with each addition.  Stir in vanilla.  Combine flour, soda and salt and gradually stir into creamed mixture.  Fold in chocolate chips.  (*Divide dough into the number of colours you wish to create.  Add your chosen food dye colour a few drops at a time and knead the dough to disperse the colour throughout*)
3. Drop by rounded spoonfuls (*approx. 1 Tbsp in size to create bite-sized cookies*) onto cookie sheet. (*I can fit 20 cookies on one sheet*)
4. Bake 8-10 minutes until light brown.  Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Yield: approx. 4 1/2 dozen

Thank you for visiting my blog today!

I hope these Rainbow Cookies inspire you to add some Spring to your kitchen.

And a BIG THANK YOU to my helper today.

He was very happy and excited to have a big box of Rainbow Cookies.  

(If you look closely you will see he has a chocolate chip mustache from his job as "cookie tester")  

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