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St. Patrick’s Day End of the Rainbow Cookies

March 11, 2013 By Vicky

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These rainbow cookies are the perfect treats for St. Patrick’s Day or even for a rainbow party. We made them using only a few ingredients. They are simple enough to make that kids can help! And when you taste them, you will be over the rainbow! These St. Patrick’s Day End of the Rainbow Cookies were a bit hit, along with these Rainbow Oreo Cookies.
End of the Rainbow Cookies - Kids will have so much fun making these St Patrick's Day cookies. These would also be great for a rainbow party.


End of the Rainbow Cookies

You will need:
  • Cookie mix or your favorite sugar cookie recipe
  • Vanilla frosting
  • Skittles
  • Green Sprinkles
  • Rainbow and shamrock cookie cutters (we used these from Wilton)

 

Supplies for End of the Rainbow Cookies
Roll out your cookie dough and cut out some rainbows and shamrocks.
Making cookies
St. patrick's day cookies
Bake the cookies and when they are cool frost the rainbow part of the cookie with vanilla frosting. It doesn’t matter how you spread the frosting since you will be putting Skittles on it. Just make sure you have a thick enough layer to hold the candy.
baking cookies with kids
Prior to starting to decorate the end of the rainbow cookies, my daughter sorted the Skittles into various colors. Regular Skittles don’t come in all the colors of the rainbow, but they have a nice representation.
I decorated a cookie first to show my daughter what the rainbow looked like. She then carefully placed the Skittles into the frosting to form a rainbow.
Decorating rainbow cookies
You will want to be sure to stand the Skittles up in the frosting rather than laying them down flat. They will take up too much space if you lay them flat and you will not have enough room for the rainbow.
Making rainbow cookies
When you are finished, the rainbow cookies will look like this. Now you can add the frosting clouds. We used a Wilton Cupcake Decorating set with a #22 tip, but you can also spread the frosting on with a knife.
Rainbow cookie just needs frosting
We made shamrock cookies as well and decorated them in a few different ways. We put some green food coloring in a pastry bag that had white frosting in it and smooshed it around a bit.
frosting cookies
I really like the effect this produced, which was various shades of green as you can see on the shamrock on the lower left. For the other shamrock, we spread on a layer of frosting and dipped the cookie in green sprinkles. I think the end of the rainbow and shamrock cookies looks almost too good to eat.
Rainbow and shamrock cookies

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If you liked these St. Patrick’s Day End of the Rainbow Cookies and are interested in more rainbow goodies check out:
Rainbow Jello
Rainbow Jello - Perfect for Saint Patrick's Day. Kids will love this! #rainbow #jello
Rainbow Cake
Easy Rainbow Cake, Rainbow Cake Recipe #rainbows, #cake, #recipe
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  1. Jen Farr says

    February 24, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    Love these cookies. I featured them in a round up of st.patrick's day cookies and cupcakes on my blog. Cheers. http://www.kitchencounterchronicle.com/2014/02/st-patricks-day-cookies-and-cupcakes.html

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