Marble Sugar Cookies

(Courtesy of twosisterscrafting.com)

Ingredients:
2 c. (4 sticks) sweet cream salted butter, softened but still cold
2 c. sugar
2 eggs
2 Tbsp. vanilla
4 tsp. baking powder
6 c. flour
Red food coloring
Green food coloring

Directions:
Add butter and sugar to a stand mixer.  Cream the butter and sugar until it is completely mixed- do not overmix.

Add vanilla and eggs and mix until completely incorporated.  Add baking powder and mix.  Mix in flour 2 cups at a time.  The flour should be completely incorporated and the dough should be firm but not dry or crumbly.  If the dough seems a little dry, add a little vanilla or milk and mix again.  Do not chill the dough.

Split the sugar cookie dough into 3 equal portions (can use a food scale if you want).

Leave one of the portions white.  Mix 1 portion of cookie dough with red food coloring (do not overmix the dough); set aside.  Mix 1 portion of cookie dough with green food coloring (do not overmix the dough); set aside.  

Roll 3 small balls of each color (about the size of a walnut).  Arrange the balls on a rolling surface in any pattern you desire (try not to put the same colors next to each other).  Press the dough balls into a circle using your hand.

Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough until it is about 1/4-1/3 inch thick (depending how thick you want your cookies to be).  Arrange your cookie cutters on the rolled out dough so that the cookie will have all 3 colors on the dough in the shape.

Add sugar sprinkles onto your raw dough and bake for 7 minutes at 350 degrees.

For the leftover dough, you can ball it up and re-roll it.  It wont have the marble effect and will have more of a tie-dye effect.

Note~ Rather than flouring your rolling surface, you can use powdered sugar.  The cookies will stick a little bit but this eliminates the powdery sheen of flour.