Camille’s 3rd birthday is coming up, and the theme is RAINBOWS! All the rainbows, all the sprinkles. It’s times like these when I’m so glad I have a daughter, because making a cake look like a super hero or a truck seems WAY harder than a tub of sprinkles and some rainbow frosting. If you’re thinking that these rainbow cookies look suspiciously similar to my Christmas Lights cookies, that is because cookie decorating is not one of the talents I was not blessed with, unfortunately. I know that practice makes perfect, but I also lack the patience to work through the dozens of pounds of butter while I hone my piping skills. Talent-less and laziness, what a winning combo, right? When I need to make cute cookies, I go with something simple, like a little cookie with a white base. This way, the simple decorations pop on the white background. These simple small-batch cut out sugar cookies topped with a small batch of royal icing are the perfect blank canvas for embellishments. First, I made a small batch of my cut-out sugar cookies, and topped them with my small-batch royal icing recipe that uses just 1 egg white, ⅔ cup of sugar and 2 teaspoons of lemon juice. This royal icing has a consistency that is easy to spread with the back of a knife and doesn’t run much over the sides. It’s a low-maintenance royal icing that doesn’t require piping. I love it, and use it often. Then, I made a batch of plain buttercream using just 1 stick of butter (the recipe only makes 11-12 cookies, perfect for party favor bags!), and then divided it into 6 bowls. I tinted each bowl red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Once I had all of the colors, I made stripes of the colors on a big sheet of plastic wrap. Then, I carefully rolled up the plastic wrap into a tube, and twisted the ends closed. I snipped off one end, and placed the entire bag inside a piping bag fitted with a tip. I used the Wilton 105 tip. (<–link to it!) Yes, the plastic wrap stays inside the piping bag, and everything is fine! Everything is perfect! Rainbow cookies for everyone! Finally, I piped little rainbows on one end each cookie. I topped the rainbows with gold sprinkles (<–link to the exact ones I used) and a few gold drags on one side of each rainbow. These rainbow cookies are going in the goody bags at Camille’s birthday party, and I can’t wait to show you! There might be a rainbow baby smash cake coming your way. Wait, do 3 year olds smash cakes? SaveSave *The frosting recipe makes about twice as much frosting as you actually need for these cookies. I used it on Camille’s rainbow birthday cake, but know that you could halve the recipe if you don’t want any leftovers. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave
