These teeny, tiny rainbow coloured cookies are an enchanting little treat for children and would make a colourful addition to a rainbow themed birthday party!
Today I’m sharing a recipe for these teeny rainbow cookies. They make a delicious treat and are so exciting for children to look at – great for helping to name the colours too!
They are really simple to make, just one basic biscuit dough mix, coloured six ways. It’s a great recipe to get children involved with, especially the cutting out of these yummy little bites.
I used an apple corer as a cookie cutter to create these little round biscuits. You can use anything else you have that’s suitable. Amazon have a nice selection of mini cutters or if course regular size cookie cutters will work if you’d like your cookies slightly bigger.
Makes: Around 200 tiny cookies.
- 225g/1 cup self raising flour
- 100g/½ cup caster sugar
- 100g/½ cup butter
- ½ rind and juice of a lemon
- 1 medium egg, beaten
- food colours (we useWilton Colour Gel)
To make your Tiny Rainbow Cookies:
- Mix the flour and the sugar together in a large mixing bowl.
- Rub in the butter with fingertips until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Zest and juice the ½ lemon into the bowl and add in the beaten egg.
- Mix it all together until it forms a soft, but not sticky, dough.
- Bring together into a ball and turn out onto a floured surface, knead for a few minutes and then split into however many colours you would like to create. I used six.
- Make a well with your finger in each ball and one by one add a few drops of food colouring and mix until the dough is an even colour. Repeat with the rest of the dough.
- Wrap each coloured ball up in cling film and chill in the fridge for around an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 160C and grease two baking trays.
- Roll out each ball of dough thinly, cut out your cookies and place onto the baking tray.
- I cooked my cookies in batches, two colours at a time. I cooked them on the medium shelf in the oven for around 7 minutes but keep a close eye on them; they are super thin so prone to burning if not checked.
- Remove and cool on a plate. Store the cookies in an airtight container; they’ll keep for around 5 days (that’s if they last that long – they certainly don’t in my household!).
These little nibbles are scrumptious just as they are but if you like you can decorate them with icing and sprinkles as I did with some of them.
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