RAINBOW COOKIE POPS

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RAINBOW COOKIE POPS

Ingredients:
3/4 cup butter, softened
3 ounces cream cheese
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
red, blue, green, and orange paste food coloring dozen lollipop sticks

Directions:

In a bowl cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir till soft dough forms. Divide dough into fourths. Tint each with a different food color.
Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Working with each color, shape dough into 3/4 inch balls. For each cookie place 1 pink, 1 green, 1 blue and 1 orange ball together to make large rainbow colored ball. Shape into a 12 inch long roll (like a snake); starting at one end, coil roll to make a  3/4 inch round cookie.
Place cookies 3 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet.
Carefully insert lollipop sticks into bottoms of cookie 4. Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool and store in an airtight container.

Yield: 2 dozen cookies

Category: Cookies, Kids, Desserts