Rainbow Cookies
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Rainbow Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup soft butter
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
food coloring
Helpful hint - work with dough cold when rolling out and stacking
1. Mix well - butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla
2. Blend - flour, baking soda, salt. Then mix with mixture above.
3. Divide dough into 6 equal parts. Color purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red.
4. On waxed paper pat each color of dough into a strip 4 inches wide, 1/4 inch thick.
5. Stack rainbow strips on top of each other. Wrap in waxed papaer, refrigerate at least 4 hours.
6. Slice block of layered dough into 1/4 inch slices. Gently curve each slice.
7. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet for about 10 minutes (or less if you like raw cookies) at 375º.