Rainbow Cookies

  So...the first lab of the year: rainbow cookies!! 

 

To make them, we split our dough into 5 uneven balls and coloured them from largest to smallest: red, orange, yellow, green then blue. Then we wrapped the colours around each other starting with blue in the centre then finishing it all off with a layer of red wrapping the outside. We then covered it up in wax paper and placed it in the fridge to harden since the dough was quite soft.

Two days later, we removed the tube of rainbow cookie dough. The colours in our cookies were quite squished and swirled together as you can see in the picture above so Sophia and I decided to perform some "cookie surgery" by fixing the colours with excess coloured dough. This is a photo of the cookies before being baked. Also, we found that we had to place it back into the freezer really often so that it could harden up. Otherwise the dough was practically impossible to work with.

This is a photo of what the cookies looked like once they came out of the oven! Aren't they kind of adorable? The colours are not very messy in some and just all over the place in some of the cookies which was a little bit disappointing but that's okay because they tasted amazing. If you can't tell from the photo, the cookies spread out a lot in the oven and turn out very light and soft when warm.

Here's a detailed shot of the cookie on its side once I took a bite out of it. The colours are so vibrant!And the cookie itself was very chewy and soft...the only negative thing I would say about this recipe is that the food colouring leaves an interesting after taste that's not that pleasant :(. Other than that, I LOVE THIS COOKIE!

These are a couple experimental cookies that we created out of excess dough! I tried to make a rainbow snowman but that just melted into a blob of disgusting-ness in the oven.

Can't wait for the next lab!