While regular cookies are always welcome in my house, fun shaped and colored cookies are definitely everyone’s favorite! I made these fall leaf sugar cookies for a small First Day of Fall party I was hosting last week, and they were a hit! The kids and adults ate them up faster than anything else I put out! If you have a fall party coming up, or just want to eat some seasonable looking food, then take a look at my tutorial on How to Make Colorful Fall Leaf Cookies!
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Despite looking so unique, these colorful fall leaf cookies are essentially sugar cookies. Which is why they’re great for parties, because if there’s any cookie pretty much everyone likes, it’s a sugar cookie! These are really quick to put together and bake, and also a lot of fun! My kids helped me with these, and we had a good time making our cookies look like real, colorful leaves!
How to Make Colorful Fall Leaf Cookies
Ingredients
3/4 cup softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons almond extract
1 egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
Parchment paper
Red, green, and orange gel food coloring
Leaf cookie cutters
Fake leaves
Directions
1. Preheat your oven to 325°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a large mixing bowl, use a hand mixer to beat your butter and sugar together.
3. Then add your almond extract and egg and mix again.
4. Now add your flour and salt and mix well until the dough starts to get thick and crumbles.
5. Knead the dough in your hands until it starts sticking together. Separate into three even dough balls.
6. Add a few drops of food coloring to each dough ball and knead with your hands until each ball is a different color. You should end up with one red ball, one green ball, and one orange ball.
7. Lay down a piece of parchment paper and sprinkle a bit of extra flour on it. Then squish your three dough balls together, and roll your dough out flat on the paper.
8. Use your leaf cookie cutters to cut your leaf shapes out and transfer them to your baking pan.
9. Press the back of a clean fake leaf onto your leaf cookies to imprint the cookies with the leaf design.
10. Bake for 10 minutes and let cool.
Enjoy your homemade fall leaf cookies!
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These colorful fall leaf cookies are perfect fall party desserts!
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup softened butter
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 1 egg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Parchment paper
- Red, green, and orange gel food coloring
- Leaf cookie cutters
- Fake leaves
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 325°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, use a hand mixer to beat your butter and sugar together.
- Then add your almond extract and egg and mix again.
- Now add your flour and salt and mix well until the dough starts to get thick and crumbles.
- Knead the dough in your hands until it starts sticking together. Separate into three even dough balls.
- Add a few drops of food coloring to each dough ball and knead with your hands until each ball is a different color. You should end up with one red ball, one green ball, and one orange ball.
- Lay down a piece of parchment paper and sprinkle a bit of extra flour on it. Then squish your three dough balls together, and roll your dough out flat on the paper.
- Use your leaf cookie cutters to cut your leaf shapes out and transfer them to your baking pan.
- Press the back of a clean fake leaf onto your leaf cookies to imprint the cookies with the leaf design.
- Bake for 10 minutes and let cool.
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Linda at Mixed Kreations says
September 27, 2016 at 12:47 pmThese are so cute! I haven’t ever seen cookies done like this with the food coloring. I bet they would be a big hit at any party. Thanks for sharing!