The Colorful Carnival Cookies are delicious and lovely to look at; kids especially love them for their vibrant colors. They don’t take much time to make; simply prepare the shortcrust pastry and add your preferred coloring to make them so cheerful. These cookies don’t have a difficult process; just a bit of patience is needed to assemble the shortcrust strips, which should be alternated in two colors to achieve this wonderful checkerboard effect.
A truly fun idea for Carnival that can be created with children, the cookies are perfect for birthdays and parties as well.
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- Difficulty: Medium
- Cost: Economical
- Rest time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
- Preparation time: 1 Hour 40 Minutes
- Portions: 6
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Carnival
- Energy 132.46 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 17.52 (g) of which sugars 7.51 (g)
- Proteins 2.24 (g)
- Fat 6.36 (g) of which saturated 4.01 (g)of which unsaturated 2.27 (g)
- Fibers 0.31 (g)
- Sodium 30.91 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 40 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for Colorful Cookies
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 9 tbsp butter
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 egg
- to taste Food coloring (preferably powder or gel)
- 1 egg white
Tools
- 1 Brush
- Plastic wrap
- Ruler
- Parchment paper
- 1 Baking tray
Preparation of Colorful Cookies
Recipe for about 30 cookies
To make your work easier, I recommend watching the video above.
In a bowl, mix the flour with the baking powder, add the sugar, salt, egg, and softened butter. Knead until you form a soft, homogeneous dough.
Once ready, divide it into 2 parts and use the colors you prefer to color the two doughs. In the end, you should have 2 different colored doughs, wrap them in plastic wrap and let them rest in the fridge for 30/40 minutes.
I recommend using powder or gel colorings; the result you get on the shortcrust will be really great. Plus, you can dose the color as you prefer, “you can find them here“
After the resting time, take the doughs from the fridge and roll out the two portions of dough, creating rectangular sheets about 1 cm thick. From each rectangle, cut 10 strips, 1 cm wide and 12 cm long, using a ruler to make them all the same size.
Brush the strips with beaten egg white and join them 3 by 3, alternating colors. Now roll out a sheet of dough and wrap it well around the colored strip block you’ve created.
Always help yourself by brushing with egg white, as it will help the sheet adhere well; then wrap it in plastic wrap and seal it well. Place the dough block in the fridge for about an hour to firm up.
If you want to halve the time, just put the dough block in the freezer for 30 minutes.
Once the dough has firmed up well, cut the cookies to a thickness of half an inch, “maximum 1 cm.” Arrange them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and bake them in the oven at 350°F for about 15 minutes.
Enjoy the treat and happy Carnival to all of you!
Preservation and Variation of Colorful Cookies
The cookies can be kept in a tin box for up to a week.
Use powdered or gel colorings, as they are easier to manage and the result will be truly great. We can create the cookies in many different colors and even make them with a classic and cocoa shortcrust pastry for a checkerboard effect.
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