Mom's Rainbow Cookies
- 7 ounces marzipan paste or 7 ounces almond paste
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 12 cups unsalted butter, softened
- 4 large eggs, separate yolks from whites
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 5 drops green food coloring
- 5 drops red food coloring
- 12 ounces raspberry jam (seedless)
- 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Grease 3 13X9 metal baking pans & then line bottom of each with wax paper (extend paper to be long at the ends) and then grease the paper.
- Break marzipan paste into small pieces and grind with sugar until all of the lumps are gone.
- This can be done in a food processor.
- Add sugar mixture to a large bowl and then add butter and beat with an electric mixer until it is light and fluffy.
- Beat in egg yolks and almond extract.
- Beat in flour and salt on low speed.
- In a separate bowl beat egg whites until they peak stiff and stir into batter.
- Divide dough into thirds and stir green food coloring in one third, red in another, and leave the third one without food coloring.
- Spread each third into its own pan.
- Bake each pan until the edges are golden about 7 - 10 minutes.
- Immediately after baking run a knife along the edges to loosen from the pan and put the layer on a rack to cool.
- (It should remove easily with the wax paper.)
- Cool completely.
- Line baking pan with wax paper and add the green layer.
- Spread half of the jam evenly over the green layer and then top it with the uncolored layer.
- Spread the remaining jam over the uncolored layer and top with pink layer.
- Cover with plastic wrap and chill for 3 or more hours.
- After chilling, melt chocolate for 30 seconds in the microwave and stir.
- Repeat until thoroughly melted.
- Spread chocolate over the top of the pink layer and set at room temperature for 1 hour.
- Cut and enjoy!
paste, sugar, unsalted butter, eggs, almond, flour, salt, drops red food coloring, raspberry, semisweet chocolate chips
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/moms-rainbow-cookies-412309 (may not work)