Hey Besties! Today we are celebrating the flavor and fun of tie dye cutout cookies! Now we are very commonly decorating or icing cookies around here, but these don’t require any icing! They are beautiful and incredibly delicious all on their own! They require zero chilling which also makes them a quick, easy and fun recipe for kids to make too! Get creative with colors and shapes for any holiday, celebration or any day of the week you just want a delicious cookie. Let’s jump in!
Cutout Cookie Recipe
I firmly believe that cookies need to be delicious enough to stand on their own. It’s not enough to have a pretty cookie; it needs to be just as delicious. And decorated sugar cookies can sometimes get a bad rap for not tasting good or being dry. And to that I say, don’t throw all the cookies under the bus because you had one subpar cookie! A good cookier takes as much pride in their cookie’s texture and flavor, as they do how it looks.
This is also why we have 20+ different delicious cutout cookie recipes! If you’re only making vanilla cookies, you are missing out! You’ll find our free collection HERE, along with more searchable on this site. But today, we’re putting a little twist on our Funfetti cookie recipe! This is a favorite cookie recipe among our customers and fellow cookiers! And normally, we include sprinkles in the dough to up the fun factor. But today, we’re leaving out the sprinkles and adding color instead! Now don’t get me wrong, these are super fun with sprinkles, but this is just another fun option!
The Flavor Secret
Besties, there is a secret ingredient to this recipe and it’s THIS. When I tell you I basically need to be muzzled while making these cookies, I’m not even kidding. The flavor of his dough is out-of-this-world and many cookiers use this recipe as their recipe for all their cookies! I buy this flavoring in larger bottles now since it’s that good! And bonus, this is also the flavoring we use in our Cookies and Cream Cutout Cookie Recipe too!
Tie Dye Cutout Cookies – Coloring
I use gel coloring for these tie dye cutout cookies, which is the same coloring we normally use for our royal icing. You’ll get far more vivid colors compared to using liquid coloring that we all used as kids. THIS is the coloring set we always have on hand and love! A little bit goes a long to produce bold and vivid colors!
I do recommend using gloves when incorporating the color into your dough, this coloring is very pigmented! Once it’s incorporated, it doesn’t stain my hands, but I always wear gloves while kneading the wet coloring into the dough.
Tie Dye Cutout Cookie Recipe & Video
The moment you’ve been waiting for! You’ll find this delicious recipe below, along with a link to a video. I show how I make these cookies from start to finish. With no chilling required, these are super quick and fun to make! I hope you love them as much as our family, friends and customers do!
Tie Dye Cutout Cookie Recipe for Fun & Flavor!
Ingredients
- 1 cup (227g) Unsalted Butter Chilled
- 1 cup (200g) Granulated White Sugar
- 1 tsp (5ml) Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 tsp (2.5ml) Cake Batter Flavoring LorAnn Brand
- 1 Large Egg Chilled
- 2 tsp (9.5g) Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp (3g) Salt
- 3 cups (380g) All-Purpose Flour
- Food coloring, as desired I use gel coloring for best results
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- We bake on our favorite perforated baking mats to eliminate any chance of spread, for even baking and pretty undersides of our cookies!
- Cream butter and sugar until smooth, about 2 minutes. No need to excessively cream as it can lead to cookie spread.
- Beat in cake batter flavoring, vanilla and egg.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add to wet ingredient mixing bowl a little at a time.
- Mix until thoroughly blended. Dough should be pulling away from the bowl.
- Chilling the dough is not necessary!
- Using gel food coloring and gloves, knead your desired colors into separate chunks of cough until the coloring is consistent throughout.
- Taking chunks of your different colors, create a larger ball of dough to roll out. If you want your colors to be distinct from each other, don't knead the dough as much. If you want them to be more marbled, knead them together more.
- You are now ready to roll out your dough! I use a floured surface and roll my dough to 1/4" thick. I use my Joseph Joseph rolling pin which does the measuring for me – genius! If you prefer thicker cookies, you'll just want to adjust your baking time.
- Cut and reroll your dough to use all of the dough.
- Bake at 350 for 7-8 minutes, depending on size of cookie. I also suggest baking similar-sized cookies together.
- Cool cookies on cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to cooling rack.
Video
Notes
Ready to Make Your Own Tie Dye Cutout Cookies?!
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At what point do you section dough for coloring, add dye, then mix in dye without OVER mixing?
Thank you
Hi! After I’m done mixing the dough, I knead coloring in by hand for each section. This way there’s no risk of overmixing the dough. I hope this helps!
Ericka, thank you so very much for all that you do for your “besties”. I can’t wait to make these cookies. Even though the 4th is gone by, I want to try them. Thank you so much for all you are doing for everyone. God bless. Charlie
Hi! I hope you love them too! They are great in all colors and shapes! Happy Baking, Bestie!
I want to try the tie dye cookies as I am doing an Americana themed send off party for my granddaughter who has enlisted in the Army. The video is clear but when I read the recipe to print, it doesn’t say when to add the flour. Obviously it is added to the other dry ingredients before they are mixed in with the wet. Thought you should know that so you can correct it. So enjoy your bestie posts and have used the icing transfer sheets.
Tonya
Hi Tonya! How in the world did that word get missed?! 😆 Updated! Thanks, Bestie for the notice! It takes a village!
Ericka, you state that you buy your flavoring in large bottles. Where are you finding it in large bottles & how large is the bottle? I use a ton of the cake batter. Thanks!
Hi Teresa! Here is a link to a 4oz bottle I commonly buy: https://amzn.to/4cZTwtJ There is also a 16oz bottle but that’s a really big one!! #affiliate