Rainbow Cookies
- 24 oz Almond Paste
- 24 oz butter
- 14 1/2 oz sugar
- 22 1/2 oz all-purpose flour
- 5 oz Amaretto
- 2 oz almond extract
- 8 eggs, seperated
- 6 oz water
- 2 oz almond extract
- 3 oz Amaretto
- 16 oz Chocolate
- 2 oz Corn Oil
- 1 raspberry or apricot preserves (seedless)
- Cream almond paste and sugar until combined
- Add butter and cream until smooth
- Add egg yolks and mix until incorporated
- Add amaretto, almond extract, and flour.
- Mix until incorporated.
- In separate bowl, whip egg whites to full peak.
- Fold this into above batter.
- Divide the mixed batter into 3 equal parts.
- Color as desired.
- Standard Italian rainbow cookies are color of Italian flag: one green, one red, last batch uncolored.
- (Play around with colors as you want)
- Spread each batter on 3 separate parchment lined half sheet pans.
- (Cookie sheets)
- Bake at 350 for 10 minutes or until the white layer is slightly golden around edges.
- DON'T OVERBAKE!
- Let cool
- Make syrup while baking, add syrup ingredients to saucepan and heat a few minutes to combine and yo bake out alcohol.
- Let cool
- Place cooled red layer on cutting board.
- (Note: it will be best if you have 2 boards same size of half sheets, if not is upside down half sheet pan)
- Brush red layer with syrup
- Spread layer of preserves on top
- Place white layer on top of prepared red layer.
- Brush with syrup and then spread layer of preserves on top
- Place green layer on top
- Brush with syrup.
- Don't put preserves on this step
- Place a layer of of parchment paper on top, place cutting board or underside of cookie sheet on top
- Wrap plastic wrap around both cutting boards with cookies inbetween
- Put in fridge with a weight on top 4-12 hours to allow to set and chill
- Melt chocolate and oil together
- Uncover cookies and spread chocolate over top in thin layer.
- Let chocolate layer set, carefully turn over and spread thin.
- Chocolate layer on other side.
- With a warm serrated knife cut edges to make neat and cut cookies to desired size.
- Remember these are usually smallish in final size because of richness
- Cookies can be frozen prior to chocolate being put on top if needed to make easier.
- Keep finished cookies wrapped in refrigerator.
- These.
- Cookies will keep for a while if you can keep everyone from eating them right away.
- ENJOY!
butter, sugar, flour, almond, eggs, water, almond, chocolate, corn oil, raspberry
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/360801-rainbow-cookies (may not work)