Rich buttery melt-in-your-mouth cookies are as easy as slicing and baking once you make the colorful doughs.
Springtime Slice-and-Bake Confetti Cookies
- Prep Time 50 min
- Total 50 min
- Servings 48
- Ingredients 13
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 cup butter-flavor shortening
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 1/4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 10 drops red food color
- 16 drops yellow food color
- 9 drops green food color
- 3 tablespoons pastel-colored confetti candy sprinkles

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F. Line bottom of 9x5-inch loaf pan with plastic wrap. In large bowl, beat sugar, butter and shortening with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Beat in egg, milk and vanilla. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt until dough forms.
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Step2Divide dough into 3 parts. Knead 1 food color into each part of dough. Press one of the colored doughs in bottom of pan. Top with remaining colored doughs, pressing each layer firmly to seal.
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Step3Turn pan upside down; remove plastic wrap from dough. Cut dough lengthwise into thirds. Cut each third crosswise into 16 slices. On ungreased cookie sheets, place slices about 2 inches apart. Sprinkle with candy sprinkles.
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Step4Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until bottoms are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks.
Nutrition
90
Calories
4 1/2g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
12g
Total Carbohydrate
6g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 90
- Calories from Fat
- 40
- Total Fat
- 4 1/2g
- 7%
- Saturated Fat
- 2g
- 9%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 3%
- Sodium
- 35mg
- 1%
- Potassium
- 10mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 12g
- 4%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 6g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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