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These Earth Day cookies are a fun treat to make with your kids, in honor of this very important global event. This is a very simple cookie recipe, but you could also use ready-made sugar cookie dough from the supermarket.
Grab your ingredients!
3/4 cup softened salted butter 2/3 cup granulated sugar 1 tablespoon almond extract 1 egg 2 cups all purpose flour Blue and green food coloring 4″ circle cookie cutter
Preheat your oven to 325 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Beat your butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Quickly mix in your almond extract and egg.
Step 1
Mix in your flour and separate your dough into bowls. 5. Mix in blue food coloring in one bowl and green (or a mix of yellow and blue) in the other.
Step 2
Form your dough into two dough balls and roll your blue dough out to 1/2″ thick. 7Break apart pieces of your green dough, lightly press them onto your blue dough, and continue to roll your dough until it’s about 1/4″ thick. Use your circle to cut your shapes out.
Step 3
Place on your baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes and let cool.
Step 4