Rainbows

We had a brilliantly fun time with Mamma this week. We didn't do anything spectacularly crazy and wild, but we did have a fun time just hanging out around the house, having our school show and tell, celebrating birthdays, playing at parks, shopping at Toys R Us, and visiting with Grandpa and Grandma who came up for the weekend.

One of the really cool things that Mamma showed us was how to make rainbow cookies! Take your basic sugar cookie recipe (or use Raylene's below) and then separate the dough into 5 colors (purple just doesn't work well in dough form). Use plastic gloves to mix in the food coloring if you don't want rainbow hands! Then roll dough color #1 (blue) in a thick snake shape. Make thick snakes of the other colors and then flatten them out, each one a little bit longer and wider than before. Place green, yellow, orange, and finally red on top of the blue snake. Refrigerate for easier slicing and then cut with a sharp knife (or use Bob's dental floss technique shown below in our pictures!) We certainly did enjoy our fun rainbow cookies!

Raylene's sugar cookie recipe:

1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup sour cream
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
6 cups flour

Cream sugar, shortening, eggs, vanilla, and sour cream. Combine flour, salt, and soda. Add slowly to creamed mixture. Roll out and cut (or insert rainbow idea here!). Bake for 8-10 minutes (12 minutes for rainbows) at 350. Makes about 5 dozen sugar cookies.