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Eating cookies are yummy and painting is fun – so we combined two of our favorite things with two of our favorite people!

Let's make some fun painted rainbow cookies! — _{Let’s make fun rainbow-Painted cookies!}

Let’s make this fun rainbow-Painted cookies recipe

I like simple easy recipes! We adapted this recipe from the back of a Duncan Hines Cakebox (one we found when making our rainbow cupcakes a few weeks ago). These cookies are super light and taste a lot like shortbread. All you need is a box of Vanilla cake mix, an egg, some cooking oil, quick oats, pancake syrup, and liquid food dye. And oh, an imaginative mind to create fun colored cookies!

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Ingredients for rainbow-Painted cookies

Cookies Ingredients

2/3 cup quick oats
1 egg
1/2 cup cooking oil
1 package vanilla cake mix

Edible Paint Ingredients

food dye (any color you like)
pancake syrup

directions to make rainbow-Painted cookies

Step 1

Mix the cake mix with quick oats (or rolled oats you blended in a food processor briefly), an egg, and half a cup of cooking oil. The batter will be pretty crumbly.

Step 2

Form it into balls and stick in the fridge for an hour or so, the batter should stick together a bit better after it sets for a bit.

Step 3

Roll the batter out into a sheet and using cookie cutters (or a cup), create your cookies.

Step 4

Mix a drop of food dye into the pancake syrup. Make as many colors as you like!

edible art — _{Grab some paint brushes, paint the cookies and have fun!}

Step 5

Grab some paint brushes, paint the cookies and have fun!

kid eating cookies — _{It’s so good and fun!}

our experience making rainbow-painted cookies

These were so yummy! We had some friends over and it was fun watching the two and three-year-old pals discover how mixing green and red made brown paint and that if they mixed all of the paints together they had black paint. Several of these cookies fit right into the fall season.

Yield: 15 cookies

Fun Rainbow-Painted Cookies Recipe

Name: Fun Rainbow-Painted Cookies Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 15
Cuisine: Snack
Ingredients: food dye (any color you like); pancake syrup; 2/3 cup quick oats; 1 egg; 1/2 cup cooking oil; 1 package vanilla cake mix

An imaginative mind needs some imaginative snacks. Have fun making these colorful rainbow-painted cookies with your kiddos! It's so good and can be a great way of teaching them about colors!

Prep Time 15 minutes

Additional Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients

Cookie Ingredients

2/3 cup quick oats
1 egg
1/2 cup cooking oil
1 package vanilla cake mix

Edible Paint Ingredients

food dye (any color you like)
pancake syrup

Instructions

Mix the cake mix with quick oats (or rolled oats you blended in a food processor briefly), an egg, and half a cup of cooking oil. The batter will be pretty crumbly.
Form it into balls and stick in the fridge for an hour or so, the batter should stick together a bit better after it sets for a bit.
Roll the batter out into a sheet and using cookie cutters (or a cup), create your cookies.
Mix a drop of food dye into the pancake syrup. Make as many colors as you like!
Grab some paint brushes, paint the cookies and have fun!