Holiday Neopolitan Cookies

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Christmas, North American

Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 10

Total Time: 25

Servings: cookies

Calories: 104kcal

Author: Lord Byron's Kitchen

Holiday Neopolitan Cookies are two-bite cookies made with red, green, and white cookie dough. They are rolled in sugar and baked for a cute and festive Christmas confection. Use different extracts in each dough colour or prepare them with just good vanilla!

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Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
2 large egg yolks
2 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract (or 3/4 teaspoon each if using 3 different extracts)
2 1/3 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup sanding sugar
red and green gel food colouring

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add in the egg yolks beat to combine. If you are flavouring these cookies with ONLY vanilla extract, go ahead and add it with the egg yolks. If you plan to use MORE THAN ONE extract, do not add any to the mixture at this time!
Add the flour and mix into the butter mixture until just combined. Don't over mix.
Divide the dough into three equal portions.
If using different extracts, add 3/4 teaspoon of each extract to one bowl. At this time, you can add red food colouring to one bowl and green food colouring to another. Pay attention to which bowl has the extract that pairs with the green and the red! If you added different extracts, beat the extract into each batch of dough now. Be sure to clean the beater between each batch so that you do not mix the flavours or colours.
Once each batch of cookie dough is ready, it’s time to roll the dough into a log. Working with one dough at a time, roll it out onto a clean counter top. Roll all three colours separately, aiming for about 18 inches long with equal thickness. Lay two rolled logs next to each other so that they are touching. Lay the last log on top of those and gently press all three logs together to form one log.
Use a sharp knife to cut the log into 1/2 inch slices.
Roll slices into balls and roll each ball into the sanding sugar and place on the prepared baking sheet. Leave two inches of space between each ball.
Bake for 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and allow cookie to cool on the baking sheet for 3-5 minutes. Transfer the cookies to a wire cooling rack to finish cooling.

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