Are you ready for some football? When I first came up with this cookie concept, I was trying to develop and simple but really pretty rainbow dessert. I used the concept of a marble cookie but instead of swirling chocolate into the dough, I swirled different colors of gel food coloring. Those cookies came out perfect on the first try and I knew I had a winner. I could not wait to use this technique again! In honor of Sundays Super Bowl, I made a batch of cookies in the competing teams colors. The Carolina Panthers are black and turqoise so I used Americolor super black and sky blue to create the swirl. I rolled those cookies in Wilton black and blue crystal sugar sprinkles. To create the Denver Broncos cookies, I swirled in Americolor orange and royal blue gel food color. Then I rolled the cookies in Wilton orange and pearlized blue crystal sugar.
After mixing my dough, I divided the dough into 2 sections (one for the Pnathers team colors and one for the Broncos team colors) and worked on one at a time. For full directions on creating these cookies, see this previous post. For more fun football desserts try my football shaped whoopie pies and my chocolate sandwich cookies with mint chocolate ganache. Here is my dairy-free slice and bake cookie recipe:
- 1½ cups vegetable shortening, such as Crisco
- 1½ cups powdered sugar
- 3 cups flour
- 1¼ tsp. baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. clear vanilla extract
- gel food color
- sprinkles, optional
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the shortening and powdered sugar.
- Add in the flour, baking powder, and salt and mix to combine. The dough will be crumbly.
- Add in the eggs and vanilla and mix until dough forms.
- Follow my blog tutorial or youtube video for coloring and forming dough.
- Freeze your logs of dough for at least ½ hour.
- While your dough is chilling, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Slice your dough into about ½ inch wide slices.
- Arrange your cookies cut side up on cookie sheet, spacing them apart because they spread.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until the cookies no longer look wet.
- Enjoy!