Rainbow Cookies Recipe (Vegan Shortbread Cookies) - Vega Recepten (2024)

We already made many rainbow recipes, and now it’s time for a rainbow cookies recipe! These rainbow cookies are fun to make and even more fun to eat.

Rainbow-themed snacks and treats always do well, whether you’re celebrating a birthday, doing something fun with your kids, making a day a little more colorful, or celebrating Pride.

You make everyone happy with our rainbow recipes.

What do you need to bake rainbow cookies? Sugar, butter or margarine, flour and food coloring.

With gel food coloring you get the most beautiful colors, so use gel colors instead of liquid or natural coloring. You can add a pinch of salt and vanilla extract for flavor.

With this cookie recipe you can make about 60 rainbow cookies!

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Vegan Shortbread Recipe

We start with making cookie dough first. We use a basic shortbread recipe to make the cookie dough.

These are 1-2-3 biscuits, because the ratio of the dough is 3.5 oz (100 grams) of sugar*, 7 oz (200 grams) of butter and 10.5 oz (300 grams) of flour. So 1 part sugar, 2 parts butter and 3 parts flour (in oz/grams, not cups!).

If you want to make more / fewer cookies, you can adjust the quantities accordingly.

*You can replace half of the sugar with powdered sugar for a finer (less granular) cookie dough.

You can use either butter and margarine, whichever you prefer. We use plant margarine, so these are vegan cookies!

Put the ingredients together in a bowl and mix, with dough hooks, the sugar, butter and flour into a nice dough. Then divide the dough into 6 balls, from smallest to largest.

The dough weighs a total of 12 oz (600 grams). Make balls of 1 ¾, 2.45, 3.25, 3.85, 4.55, and 5 ¼ oz. In grams: 50, 70, 90, 110, 130 and 150 grams.

Now it’s time to color the cookie dough!

These rainbow cupcakes, rainbow popcorn, and rainbow cake recipes are also fun to make! And super colorful!

Rainbow Cookies

Color the cookie dough balls (from smallest to largest) purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. Add a pinch of gel coloring to the dough and mix!

If you are not completely happy with the color, you can add a little color. Do you only have red, yellow and blue? Orange is made with yellow + red, green with yellow + blue and purple with red + blue.

Then put the balls in the freezer for 15 minutes or in the fridge for half an hour. This cools the dough and makes it easier to use. It is firmer, less sticky and the cookies become crispier.

After 15/30 minutes, remove the balls from the freezer / refrigerator. Roll an 8 inch (20 centimeters) string off the purple ball. Then roll out the blue ball on baking paper to an 8 inch (20 centimeters) string and press it flat.

Place another sheet of baking paper on top (so that you have baking paper under and above) and roll out the layer in width (not length). Make a nice rectangle with your hands and roll the purple string in it.

Cut away the excess dough and press the seam tightly.

Repeat with the other colors, in order of size. Each layer is wider than the previous one.

If your dough cracks a little it doesn’t matter – press the cracks shut. At the end, roll the entire roll one more time, so that all layers are well secured.

Roll the dough in a sheet of baking paper and let it rest in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. Or put the roll in the freezer.

The roll should not be too hard, but should be cut when you take it out of the fridge / freezer.

How to Bake Rainbow Cookies

Now it is almost time to bake the rainbow cookies. Make sure the oven is preheated to 350 °F / 180 °C.

Remove the roll from the fridge / freezer and cut about ⅕ inch (½ centimeter) slices. Then cut these slices in half, so you get 2 rainbows.

Bake them in 10-15 minutes. Let them cool for at least another 10 minutes or they will break!

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Vegan Cookies Recipe

This cookie recipe is completely vegan if you use vegetable margarine / vegan butter and vegan food coloring.

Rainbow Recipes

Check out more rainbow recipes on our website! We create 30 recipes, a recipe for every day of Pride Month.

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