Collage Sugar Cookies

Colorful collage cookies on the counter with mini cookie cutters in the background.

Collage Sugar Cookies are a soft and chewy Sugar cookie topped with small pressed cut out sugar into the dough, creating a collage effect. These are so cute and festive- perfect for any occasion!

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Prep Time: 2

Cook Time: 10

Servings:

Calories: 240kcal

Equipment

Stand mixer
small cookie cutters
Gel food coloring
white food coloring
food grade gloves for kneading the coloring into the dough
parchment paper
Rolling Pin
larger cookie cutter

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups salted butter softened
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 egg
1 egg white
3 tsp vanilla extract
4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
3 tsp baking powder
gel food coloring

Instructions

Sugar Cookie Dough

In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together your butter and sugar for 2 minutes.
Scrape the sides of the bowl, add in the eggs and vanilla extract. Mix until well combined.
Scrape the sides of the bowl, add in the flour and baking soda.
Mix until your dough forms. This may take a minute in your mixer, just keep mixing until the dough comes together.
Knead the dough on your counter for 30 seconds or so, it should feel like play-dough. If it has a hard time sticking together, return to the mixer and add in 1-2 tsp of water.
Divide the cookie dough in half. Wrap one half with plastic wrap and set aside.
Divide the other half into smaller portions (the amount will depend on how many colors you’d like to use).

Dying the cookie dough

Use gloves and plastic wrap on your counter to knead the food coloring into each portion of cookie dough.
To make slight variations on each color, try combining a small amount of two colors together to achieve a new color. I like to have a darker and lighter version of the same color so I will take half of a color and then add a little bit of white cookie dough and knead it together to achieve a lighter version of that color.
Repeat until all of your cookie dough is colored. If you are not working with the cookie dough, cover it with plastic wrap to keep it from drying out.

Rolling and cutting the cookie dough

Roll the colored cookie dough out until pretty thin (approx 1/8 inch) and then use the small cookie cutters to cut out your desired shapes. Set aside.
Repeat with remaining colors.
Once all of your colored cookie dough is cut out, preheat your oven to 350° F.
Unwrap your half of plain cookie dough and roll out on a lightly floured surface until about 1/2 inch thick.
Arrange your cut out pieces of colored dough onto the rolled out cookie dough how you would like it. You can overlap pieces, as you wish.
Place a large sheet of parchment paper over the cookie dough. Next we will press the cookie dough down- you can do this by either gently using a rolling pin or pressing a cookie sheet down on top of the cookie dough.
The cut outs will distort a little bit more if using a rolling pin.
Remove the parchment paper once the cookie dough is a little less than 1/2 inch thick.
Use a larger cookie cutter to cut your final cookie shape.
Arrange on a parchment lined cookie sheet.

Baking the cookies

Bake at 350° F for 7-9 minutes, or until the centers of the cookies puff up and are no longer wet and glossy.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the pan.
Store in an airtight container.
You can make sandwich cookies out of these if you like your cookies with frosting!

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