Rustle up these vibrant cookies as a festive present for buddies. Made with our common dough recipe, the checkerboard impact is created by way of layering

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:35 minutes
  • Prepare dinner:10 minutes
  • plus chilling and cooling
• Simple
• Makes 20-25

• Vegetarian

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Components

• plain flour, to mud
• ½ batch of common dough (see under)
• pink meals colouring paste
• 50g demerara sugar

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Methodology

• STEP 1

  Line a baking sheet with baking parchment. Evenly mud a clear work floor with flour and divide the dough into two. Beat the pink meals colouring into one batch of dough in a bowl utilizing electrical beaters till it’s vibrant pink. Divide each numerous dough into two items every and chill them for 15 minutes.

• STEP 2

  On the dusted work floor, roll out into 4 1cm-thick rectangles, maintaining them as straight-edged as potential – a dough scraper or palette knife can assist with this. Lay the sheets of dough on high of one another, alternating colors and chill within the fridge till agency, round 30 minutes. Trim the perimeters and minimize into strips 1cm thick, then lay the strips on high of one another, alternating the colors, so {that a} pink strip sits on high of plain and vice versa, and brushing frivolously with a little bit of water to assist them stick. Placed on a baking tray and chill within the fridge for 1 hr.

• STEP 3

  Warmth the oven to 200C/180C fan/fuel 6 and line two giant baking sheets with baking parchment. Utilizing a really sharp knife, minimize into squares and frivolously brush the perimeters with water. Dip the perimeters within the demerara sugar then organize on a baking tray. Bake for 8-10 minutes till golden and set. Go away to chill on the tray for 10 minutes, earlier than eradicating to a wire rack to chill utterly. Will hold in an hermetic container for 3 days.