Cotton Candy Cookies
Cotton Candy Cookies will take you back to the county fair! These beautiful and delcious rolled sugar cookies are perfect for parties.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 ½ teaspoon cotton candy flavoring
- Pink food coloring
- Blue food coloring
- Powdered sugar or flour for rolling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Whisk together the dry ingredients.3 cups all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, ½ teaspoon salt
- In another bowl, beat together the butter and sugar. (An electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment is ideal, but a hand mixer will work also).1 cup butter, softened, 1 cup sugar
- Add the egg and cotton candy extract. Be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl.1 egg, 1 ½ teaspoon cotton candy flavoring
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. The dough will be a little crumbly.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and divide the dough into two equal portions.
- Knead the pink food coloring into one half of the dough and the blue food coloring into the other half.Pink food coloring, Blue food coloring
- Roll each dough ball out into a rectangle that is ¼ inch thick.
- Carefully place one sheet of cookie dough on top of the other. Remove any air pockets by patting gently.
- Starting from the long end, tightly roll the cookies up into a log shape.
- Cut the cookie dough into ¼ inch slices. Place cookies onto the prepared cookie sheet.Powdered sugar or flour
- Bake for 7-9 minutes at 350 degrees then transfer to a cooling rack.
- Once the cookies are fully cooled, you can add icing or frosting if desired.