Rainbow Swirl Sugar Cookies

By nanasally4

Ingredients

• 1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies
• 1 box classic gel food colors
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sparkling sugar or turbinado sugar

Details

Servings 1
Cooking time 45mins
Adapted from pillsbury.com

Preparation

Step 1

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Heat oven to 350°F.

Divide dough into 5 equal parts. Tint each with a different gel food color (red, orange [mix red and yellow], yellow, green, blue), and add 2 tablespoons of the flour to each to keep from becoming overly sticky.

On work surface, place 2 pieces cooking parchment paper. Sprinkle a bit of the remaining flour onto 1 of the pieces of parchment paper. Use rolling pin to roll red dough to 8x3x1/4 inch. Transfer this dough to other piece of parchment paper. Repeat with orange, yellow, green and blue pieces of dough, placing each color on top of the other until they are all stacked in rainbow order--red, orange, yellow, green, blue.

Sprinkle parchment paper with sparkling sugar. Roll dough gently in sugar until coated. Cut into 1/2-inch slices with sharp knife, then press one side of each round into sparkling sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet, sugar side up.