Celebrate Earth Day with these Planet Earth Cookies!
Bake vibrant Planet Earth Cookies! Swirl blue & green dough into edible planets with this fun recipe. A perfect Earth Day activity for kids.
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
Instructions
- 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.
- Mix in your flour and separate your dough into bowls.
- Mix in blue food coloring in one bowl and green (or a mix of yellow and blue) in the other.
- Form your dough into two dough balls and roll your blue dough out to 1/2" thick.
- Break 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.
- Place on your baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes and let cool.
Nutrition
Calories: 343kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 4gFat: 18gSaturated Fat: 11gSodium: 146mgFiber: 1g
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