Rainbow Sugar Cookies
Simple rainbow sugar cookies made from a circle cookie cutter! We'll share two ways to decorate them with buttercream frosting. So colorful and delicious!
Servings 36
Calories 225kcal
Equipment
- Rolling Pin
- #5 frosting tips (round tip)
- #18 frosting tip (open star tip)
- frosting/patry bags
- frosting couplers
- large round cookie cutter
- small round cookie cutter
Ingredients
- batch sugar cookie dough (our favorite recipe)
- 1 cup butter softened
- 6 cups powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 6-8 Tbsp. milk
- food coloring
Instructions
- For the semi-circle rainbow cookies, cut out circle cookie shapes then slice each circle in half using a pizza cutter or knife.Use a small round cookie (or biscuit) cutter to cut out a small section in the center for the arch.
- Bake cookies and let cool completely.
- Whisk ingredients together for frosting. Seperate into bowls and add food coloring.Fill pastry bags with frosting and desired frosting tips. Use a #5 or #7 tip for the rainbow colors and a #18 tip for the white clouds.
- Pipe rainbow onto cookie using frosting bags filled with buttercream frosting.Add clouds by piping on small white stars to each cookie.
- For the round rainbow cookies, cut out circle cookie shapes. Bake cookies and let cool completely.Outline cookie in blue frosting. Fill bottom with blue frosting.
- Fill in top half of the cookie with rainbow colors. Swirl clouds onto each cookie using the white frosting and star frosting tip (#18).
Video
Notes
I used a 4" round cookie cutter to make the semi-circle rainbow cookies and a 1" round cookie cutter to make the center arch cut.
I used a 3" round cookie cutter to make the round rainbow cookies.
Nutrition
Calories: 225kcal