Cheer on your team with sweetness. These Olympic ring cookies are the perfect snack, gift or dessert for the Olympic season. Get ready for the games, and be sure to have some sweet celebrations at home.
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What makes these cookies work so well is the boldness of the icing color, which is then accentuated with the same color sugar sprinkles. Why didn’t I think of this? These sugar sprinkled cookies are beautiful!!!
But these cookies are missing their centers, I'd add some flavoring to the icing to make them more satisfying to eat.
How to make Olympic Ring Cookies
Making Olympic ring cookies is super easy, folks!
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Materials Needed
The Decorated Cookie team has its own recipe writeup, but let me suffice here to say that what you need for this is an ordinary sugar cookie recipe for cookies with icing. It cannot be simpler.
You'll also need a 2-inch and a 3-inch circle cookie cutter. Or 2 different glasses of that size that will work at cookie cutters.
What you probably will need to buy is the blue, red, yellow, green and black food coloring and sugar sprinkles. (You can find / buy these here online at Amazon. Americolor food coloring is the pro-option for food coloring, but there are many other brands as well. Wilton is the pro-choice for sugar sprinkles #ad) You may also need to buy a few extra decorating tips and bags as you can only do 1 color at a time. There are disposable decorating bags, couplers and tips. (You can find what you need here on Amazon).
Universal How to bake sugar cookies recipe
Easy peasy.
Ingredients list for your Olympic cookies
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
2.5 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
Mix the butter and sugar first, then mix in the egg. Add your extracts. Sift the flour and mix it in bit by bit.
When the dough is ready, put it in a ziplock bag to chill for 2 hrs in the fridge (Important!)
Working the dough in 3 or 4 batch. Knead it a little so you can more easily roll it to 1/4 inch thickness.
Olympic Rings Cookie Cutting!
Now the fun begins! You can call in the kids to place the circles onto the rolled out dough. Combine the centers to make more rings, or .... simply also make some small round cookies as well.
Place your cookies on a prepared baking tray and bake cookies at 375 F (about 180 C ) for about 14 minutes. Start looking in the over at 10-12 min to see golden edges - the indication that they're done.
Olympic Rings - The Coloring Act
Make sure that they are completely cooled before decorating them
Work just 1 color at at time, so things stay neat.
You can make the dough ahead of time, freeze it and thaw it overnight before usage.
Happy baking!
Ps. have a look at The Decorated Cookie website for more ideas. x
