St. Patrick’s Day Cookies
Happy Monday my friends! We are in our last week of St. Patrick’s Food and Fun, I hope you have enjoyed it so far. We have lots of delicious recipes, dinner ideas, fun for the kids and of course, St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes for you this week, so stay tuned!
I’m brightening your day today with these green ombre St. Patrick’s Day Cookies! One of the Rainbow Recipes I had on my list and didn’t get a chance to bake, were these Rainbow Cookies. So, I thought it would be fun to change it up a little and simply color them green for St. Patrick’s Day. They used store bought sugar cookie dough, but I used one of my favorite Sugar Cookie Recipes that has almond extract in it.
After they were cooled, I dipped the edge in white chocolate and added a few green jimmie sprinkles. I think these would also be fun for Valentine’s Day or even Halloween. Or maybe some fun March Madness cookies with your favorite team colors!
After mixing up the dough, you will need to color it. I used Wilton leaf green coloring, divided the dough into 4 parts and colored each a little darker. Cover the counter with a piece of wax paper, and knead the coloring in until well blended.
- Roll a small ball {I used a 2 tablespoon cookie dough scoop} of each color
- Place the balls together and roll another ball
- Roll into a cylinder about 8 inches long
- Coil the dough, twisting the rope as you go {this step was a little tricky, and took me a few times} The dough may break, I just pushed it back together
Once the cookies are formed, place on a greased cookie sheet and bake {see recipe below}
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Recipe:
St. Patrick’s Day Cookies {Sugar Cookie Recipe}
A fun multi-colored sugar cookie for St. Patrick's Day or change the color for another holiday. Recipe from HoosierHomemade.com
Ingredients
- 3 cups Flour, all-purpose
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1 cup Sugar
- 2 sticks Butter
- 1 Egg
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 teaspoon Almond Extract
- Leaf Green Coloring
Instructions
Sugar Cookie Recipe
- Combine the flour and baking powder, set aside
- Cream the sugar and butter
- Add egg and extracts, mix well
- Gradually add the flour mixture and beat until well combined
St. Patrick's Day Cookies
- Divide dough into 4 parts and color with green coloring
- Roll a small ball {I used a 2 tablespoon cookie dough scoop} of each color
- Place the balls together and roll another ball
- Roll into a cylinder about 8 inches long
- Coil the dough, twisting the rope as you go, press the end in a little to seal
- Place on greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for about 8-10 minutes {depending on the size of the cookie}
Sugar Cookies
- Roll out dough and cut with a cookie cutter
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 7-8 minutes
Follow along as we share 17 days of St. Patrick’s Day Food and Fun…
- Day 1: Food, Decorations and Sweet Treats Round-up from 2011
- Day 2: Luck of the Irish Door Hanging
- Day 3: Irish Cream Push Pops & Trifle Recipe
- Day 4: Inspiration from Pinterest
- St. Patrick’s Day Mantel with Free Lucky Banner Printable
- Mini Rainbow Cupcakes
- Rainbow Pinwheel Wreath
- Mini Funfetti Sandwich Cookies
- Rainbow Fruit Skewers and Dip shared on Pocket Change Gourmet
- Rainbow Cupcakes in a Jar shared on Lifetime Moms
- Rainbow Oreo Pops
- Rainbow Cake with Free Rainbow Bunting Flags
- Rainbow Cupcakes with Free Rainbow Lucky Bunting Flags for Cupcake Chronicles Newsletter
Would it be possible to freeze these after baking? Before dipping into chocolate?
Hi Dolly, I haven’t tried freezing the cookies, however it should be fine.
Happy Baking!
-Liz
The color on those cookies really comes out when they’re baked! I’d worry about over-working the dough and ending up with tough cookies, though. If one were making a particularly large batch of these, do you think that the coloring would be more ideally done during the addition of eggs, or maybe even the creaming of butter and sugar?
This dough is very soft, and should not get tough with the addition of the coloring at the end. You can certainly try to add it during the mixing process.
~Liz
Cool stuff. I love the color and decoration of your cookie. These are surely going to make the moms a real hero.
You must be working overtime! You have so many wonderful St. Patrick’s Day ideas 🙂