Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with these pot o'gold cookies

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There's a cookie at the end of this rainbow and it's calling your name! Celebrate Saint Patty's with these colorful and decadent pot o' gold cookies.

Ingredients

For the cookies:

  • 1.5 cups all purpose flour measured then sifted

  • ¾ teaspoons baking powder

  • ½ teaspoon fine sea salt

  • 1 ½ sticks unsalted butter softened (1 1/2 cups)

  • ¾ cups granulated sugar + extra for rolling

  • 1 large egg

  • 1/2 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

For the decorations:

  • 1 (8 ounce) tube white decorating icing

  • ½ cup mini yellow coated chocolate candies

  • 6 rainbow berry candy strips, cut into 3-inch pieces

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.

  2. Place the softened butter and sugar in the bowl of your electric mixer. Cream the butter and sugar together on high until light and fluffy, 3-5 minutes. Then turn the mixer on low and add the eggs and vanilla extract. Scrape the bowl.

  3. With the mixer running on low, slowly add the flour mixture. Scrape the bowl and beat again for 30 seconds.

  4. Pour some extra sugar into a bowl to coat the cookies. Scoop the dough out and roll into 1 inch balls. The dough should be soft and delicate - Don't over-handle. Shake each ball in the sugar bowl to coat, then place on the cookie sheets 2 inches apart. Use the bottom of a drinking glass to press down on each ball, until it's 1/3 - 1/2 inch thick.

  5. Use your thumb to make holes in the cookies.

  6. Bake each sheet of sugar cookies for 9-11 minutes, until the edges are slightly golden and the centers are just barely set. Cool completely on the cookie sheets.

  7. Cut the candy strips into 3-inch pieces. Set out the mini yellow candies and prepare the icing tube with a star attachment.

  8. When the cookies have cooled, pile yellow candies over in the middle of each cookie and make it look like a pot of gold. Pipe two cloud-like stars on opposite sides of the cookie and arrange a candy strip in a rainbow shape sticking each end of the candy strip into the cloud-like icing. Repeat with remaining cookies.

For more ways to celebrate St. Patty's Day, take a look at our cocktail recipes below:

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