How to make American Flag 4th of July Cookies

If you are short of time but would love to have delicious and beautiful 4th of July cookies on your table this step-by- step guide is for you.
These cookies take less than an hour to prepare and they taste heavenly!

The Best Sugar Cookie Recipe

• 1 ½ cups sifted confectionary sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1 egg
• 1tsp vanilla flavoring
• ½ tsp almond flavoring
• 2 ½ cups sifted flour
• 1tsp cream of tartar
• 1tsp baking soda

I would recommend that you refrigerate the dough for about 2 to 3 hours before you start working with it.

1. Divide the dough into 3 parts. Use red and blue food coloring to dye the first 2 parts and leave the third one uncolored.

2. Start with the red ball. Roll out your dough until it’s approximately 0.15” thick. You will need to cut 1 rectangle that is 2.5” x10” and 2 smaller one, each 1”x10”. Roll the uncolored dough to the same thickness, but 2 rectangles 2.5” x10” and one 1”x10”.
Roll the blue dyed dough until it is 1” thick and cut one rectangle 1.5”x10”

I know it sounds complicated, but if you are looking at the pictures you will see how easy all of these is.

3. In order to make a flag you will have to stack the strips in the following order.
2.5”x10” uncolored (0.15” thick)
2.5”x10” red (0.15” thick)
2.5”x10” uncolored (0.15” thick)
1.5”x10” blue and next to the blue line up the smaller strips starting with the red one (1” thick)

This is how the dough looks at the end

Once it’s cooled and hard enough to cut, slice the dough to the desired thickness (if you like soft and chewy cookies, cut them a little bit thicker and for thin and crisp cookies, cut really thin) bake at 375 for approximately 7 – 8 minutes.

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