Description
Valentine Rainbow Heart Cookies, The best and most beautiful Valentine Rainbow Heart Cookies ever. It is an incredibly beautiful and showstopper cookie.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter (170g), softened
- 1 1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar (155g)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
- 3 egg yolks at room temperature (large eggs)
- 2 1/2 cups cake flour (310g)
- Food colors
- Sprinkles
- Egg wash: 1 egg white & 1 teaspoon water
Instructions
Soften the butter and whisk until creamy like mayonnaise without lumps.
Mix in confectioners’ sugar.
Stir in vanilla, salt, and egg yolks.
Fold in cake flour.
Transfer to clean working surface and knead.
Make the rainbow color dough.
The dough is portioned as follows.
One-third of the dough uncolored
The remaining dough is divided into 6 equal portions (or close as possible) and colored using gel colors Red/orange/yellow/green/blue/purple
Chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Roll out red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet cookie dough.
The thickness of each cookie dough sheet should be adjusted to the size of your cookie cutter.
Pile up six rainbow sheets brushing egg wash between the sheets.
And let set in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Slice the rainbow sheet. The width should be smaller than the height of your cookie cutter.
Turn each rainbow cookie dough brick, so that you can see the rainbow layers.
And make rainbow hearts with a heart cookie cutter. And let set in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Pile up the rainbow hearts applying egg wash as glue between the hearts. And freeze for 1 hour.
Now carefully cover the rainbow heart cookie roll with small pieces of vanilla dough and make a cylinder.
And let set in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Brush the dough with egg wash and roll in the bed of rainbow sprinkles.
Slice the dough and let set in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Then bake for 10-11 minutes at 335 F. (170 C), or until light brown.
Let cool on the pan for 5 minutes. Then transfer to a wire rack and completely cool.
Notes
Original Recipe: Valentine Rainbow Heart Cookies – Eugenie Cookies tried and prepared by Vashnee Chinnah and shared with us.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 109
- Sugar: 5
- Sodium: 10
- Fat: 5
- Saturated Fat: 3
- Unsaturated Fat: 2
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 14
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 2
- Cholesterol: 37
