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rainbow cookies recipe

Rainbow Cookies

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Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 2 Cups Flour
  • 1 Cup Sugar
  • 2 tsp Baking Powder
  • 12.5 Oz can Almond FILLING (not paste!)
  • 3 Sticks Unsalted Butter
  • 5 Large Eggs
  • 3 Tsp Pure Almond Extract
  • 1 Tsp Rum Extract
  • 10 Oz Bakers Chocolate
  • 1 Jar Strawberry Jelly / Jam
  • Red, Yellow, Green Food Coloring

Instructions
 

  • Cream together the butter & sugar for a few mins. Add the Almond filling and mix well until fluffy. Add the extract. Mix again
  • Sift together flour and baking powder.
  • Add eggs one at a time then add flour and baking powder. Once fully combined and fluffy STOP. Do not overmix.
  • Evenly Seperate batter into 3 bowls. Put 12 drops of food coloring in each (Red in one, yellow in the other and then green)
  • Spray 3 disposable rectangular cake pans. Pour each bowl into one of the pans. So you have 1 red pan, 1 green and 1 yellow. Evenly spread out the batter, gently tap and bake in a preheated oven at 350 F. Alternating the pans while they bake. Apron. 15 mins.
  • Remove and let cool slightly
  • Starting with the red layer, flip it out onto a board with wax paper. Spread strawberry jelly over (not too much though). NOW flip out the YELLOW layer on top of the red, spread more jelly (again not too much). Now flip over the green layer and let set.
  • Melt chocolate
  • Pour half the chocolate over the top layer and spread it out evenly with a knife or offset spatula.
  • Pop in the freezer until set (like 10 mins.) Then carefully flip over and spread more melted chocolate on that side. Allow to set before slicing into strips and then squares of your choice.
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