Rainbow Cookies

Ingredients:

250mL margarine

250mL sugar

2 eggs

5mL vanilla

625mL flour

5mL baking soda

10mL cream of tartar

2mL salt

A few drops of food colouring: Blue, green, yellow, orange, and red

Method:

1) Preheat oven to 180°C

2) In a large bowl, cream together margarine and sugar. Add one egg at a time. Beat until well incorporated. Add the vanilla.

3) Sift together dry ingredients in a medium bowl.

4) Slowly stir the flour mixture into the creamed mixture.

5) Divide the dough into 5 unequal amounts: (From smallest to biggest) Blue, green, yellow, orange, red

6) Mix in 2-3 drops of food colouring to each amount, may add more if needed.

7) Start by rolling the smallest ball into a snake. Surround the snake with the next largest ball until dough is used up OR roll each ball into a snake place each side by side and shape into a rainbow.

8) Put in the freezer for 10 minutes or until the dough hardens

9) Slice the cookies in half and place on an ungreased cookie sheet

10) Bake for 8-10 minutes (May need more time depending on the size of cookies; the cookies provided in the picture took about 12 minutes)

11) Let sit on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes, and then move them to a cooling rack to cool completely.

*Vocabulary*

Cream of tartar: A fine, white powder taken from crystal acid; Deposited from the inside wine barrel and, to egg whites, improve stability and volume.