Oh my goodness, I love these new rainbow chocolate chips! Such a happy and colorful twist to my regular sugar cookie, it’s such an easy and pretty way to elevate the cookies a bit.
The baking chips are made by American Crafts, and are called Homemade with Love Rainbow Baking Chips.
You also have the option of using another baking chip compilation with a slightly different color palette (a little brighter, rather than pastel shades). They’re also made by American Crafts and Alma’s Culinary Company, and are called Rad Mix. Both are found at Walmart. (Photo below of the Rad Mix).
You many have already seen my Instagram story, but in case you didn’t, all I did was add the baking chips to my sugar cookie recipe at the last stage of mixing the ingredients together.
I like to chill my dough after I roll it out, so it was helpful to have a cookie cutter with a softer edge to it (where it makes contact with your hand), you’ll need to press a bit harder than usual to cut through some chips. If you do have a double sided cutter that doesn’t have a “softer” side, place an offset spatula on the cookie cutter and press down on that.
The cookie edges may not all end up perfect either; you can see where a few chips were cut in half and bent a bit at the edge. It really doesn’t affect the cookie shape itself though, and can be covered with royal icing if you like.
On to the recipe, below! Let me know if you have any questions, happy to help.
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xo,
Marian
Rainbow Chocolate Chip Cut Out Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups salted butter, room temperature
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 8 oz rainbow baking chips 1 pack or 227 grams
Instructions
- Cream the butter and sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer on low speed. (Use the paddle attachment). Mix until thoroughly incorporated – for about one minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a plastic spatula and mix again for a few seconds more. Over mixing the butter and sugar in this step will cause too much air to be incorporated into the dough. If you'd like a light and fluffy cookie, that's ideal, however the dough will spread more during baking; not ideal if you'd like the cookie to hold its shape.
- Add eggs slowly and mix. Scrape down the bowl with your spatula at least once and mix again. Add vanilla extract. Stir briefly.
- Add all of the flour to the bowl. Place a large tea towel between the edge of the bowl and the electric mixer so that the flour won't escape. Mix on low speed for 30 seconds. Remove the tea towels and observe the dough mixing; when it starts to come together add the rainbow baking chips and mix until the dough clumps around the paddle attachment. The dough should peel away from the sides of the mixer and clump around the paddle attachment. You can also test the dough by pinching it between your thumb and index finger. If it’s soft but not sticky, it’s just right. If it’s too sticky when you pinch it between your fingers, add flour, ¼ cup at a time, and mix until you’re happy with the texture.
- Roll the dough out between 2 large pieces of parchment paper. Place on a baking sheet and into the fridge or freezer for a minimum of 1 hour.
- Cut out cookie shapes. Place on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Re-roll scraps and repeat. If your dough gets too soft to work with, place in the fridge or freezer periodically to firm up again.
- Once all cut out, put cookie dough shapes back into the fridge or freezer for 10 minutes to 1 hour to chill again. They will then hold their shape better when baked.
- Preheat your oven to 350°F or 176°C.
- Bake cookies for 8-12 minutes or until the edges become golden brown. The baking time will depend on the size of your cookie.
- Let cookies cool to room temperature and decorate if you like! If you’re new to decorating cookies, here is a cookie decorating tutorial with everything you’ll need to know to begin!
Maria Lennartz says
Hi Marian,
These heart cookies look so perfect ! I have to try to bake them myself! Thank you for sharing all your talents, knowledge, expertise! Love your creative blog!
ML
marian says
Thank you so very much ML! xo
Kim says
Love your site! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I have a basic cookie cutting question. Is there a tip for getting “clean” cookie edges? I seem to always have a couple of cookies with rough edges. Thank you
marian says
Hi Kim,
Cold dough helps. The more you roll out your dough scraps and cut shapes out, the less clean your edges will be. This post might be useful for you; https://sweetopia.net/2011/04/top-8-tips-on-preventing-cookies-from-spreading/
Paloma Geremia Nievinski says
Hello Marian, my name is Paloma and I love your blog and all yours works. I live in Brasil so I translate some of your recepies to portuguese. Today I share this recepie on my Instagram account, to show people from here how amazing you are. I put into this post some os the pictures too. I hope that is ok for you, please let me know if you are ok with this kind os post. And I’ll try this recepie changing the chocolate tips for another kind of chocolate because here we dont have this beautiful colored chips. Thanks for sharinng this amazing material.
Paloma
@paloma_bem_bom_biscoitos
Vickie Schmid says
Hi Marian, I just came across your wonderful baking site. I have been looking for cookie recipes. My grandchildren are in their teens, but living in Alaska they love my baking. Here’s my question. I have never seen a cookie recipe that doesn’t call for BAKING SODA or BAKING POWDER. Will let you know how things turn out. Thank you.
Vickie Schmid