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(Let's just say, I blame this recipe on the loooong winter...)
On Saturday I was a guest on WNYT. I shared a recipe for tie-dye cookies. First, here's the video.
Looks like fun, right? It is!
Remember those tie-dye cupcakes I did last year? They were the inspiration for these cookies! Before we begin, let me say one thing: Yes, my dough is bright. If you don't want to color your dough as aggressively as I did, simply cut back on the amount of food color you use. Pastel tie-dye cookies look just as cute as my brightly colored ones!
This recipe starts innocently enough with butter and sugar.
Add two eggs (full recipe follows). Be sure to stop the mixer and scrape down the bowl after you add each egg. The sugar mixture gets light and fluffy.
Add dry ingredients. See this? At first the dough appears dry, crumbly even. This is normal. Mix the dough on medium speed and it will go from what you see above to...
This! Amazing, isn't it? Time to play with the dough!
Pat the dough into a ball.
Cut into four even pieces.
Flatten one of the pieces. Dab a generous amount of paste/gel food color onto the dough.
Casually fold over some dough over the blob of food color.
Put on plastic gloves and knead the color into the dough. Don't have plastic gloves? No problem!
Plop the dough into a plastic bag. Knead the dough in the bag to keep your hands dye-free. (Trust me on this. I kneaded dye into dough without gloves or a bag while testing this recipe. My hands looked liked I'd strangled a Smurf. To death! I'm still haunted by the idea of that much blue under my nails.
Color all the dough. (To avoid transfer colors from one dough ball to another, change your gloves/bag after coloring each piece of dough.)
Pinch off about one teaspoon of dough from each color. Roll dough into balls.
Place the dough balls into two rows.
Pinch the dough balls together.
Roll dough into a long log--like rolling clay snakes as a kid! The log should be between 8 to 12-inches.
Roll dough log up into a circle and place on a baking sheet.
