Instructions

1. The first step in making Marble Sugar Cookies is to make up a batch of our Best Sugar Cookie recipe dough.   This dough makes the best sugar cookies we have ever eaten and the cookies really keep the shape of the cookie-cutter during the baking process.  We can't recommend this recipe enough and you'll find the recipe here!
2. Split the sugar cookie dough into three equal portions using a food scale. Leave one-third of the cookie dough white.  And color the other two, red and green.  We use Wilton Color Right Food Coloring, it gives food a bright intense color without having to use a ton of food coloring.  To get these pretty shades of red and green, we used the following formulas: Red: 3 drops of Crimson and 3 drops of Red Green:  3 drops of Yellow and 2 drops of Blue
3. To get the pretty marble effect on the cookies, roll 12 small balls of cookie dough in each of the three colors.  Each ball should be about the size of a large walnut.
4. Take the green dough balls and arrange them on the rolling surface.   Then randomly add in the white dough balls.  Finally, add in the red dough balls.  Use your hands to press together the dough balls into a circle as shown in the picture above.
5. Use your rolling pin to roll out the dough until it is about 1/4″ – 1/3″ thick (depending on how thick you want your Marble Sugar Cookie to be.)Step 6 Now arrange your cookies cutters on the rolled-out dough so that the cut-out cookie will have all three colors on dough in the shape.
6. You can see how pretty and varied the marble pattern turns out on the cut-out cookies. If you want, you can add some Sugar Sprinkles onto the raw dough.
7. Bake them in an oven preheated to 350 degrees for 7-10 minutes (depending on how big the cookies are).  Do not overbake.  You don’t want them to brown.
8. Allow the cookies to cool before storing them.