Tie Dye Cookies

Tie Dye Cookies are colorful sugar cookies made to look like tie-dye with bright colors and creative designs. These delicious cookies are easy and fun to make! 

We love to use this recipe for Soft Sugar Cookies as the dough for Tie Dye cookies, with neon food coloring to make the vibrant colors pop. My kids had fun making these!  The method of making them is simple, and we have made a video to show you all of the steps. I hope you like them! I know that your kids will.

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Tie Dye Cookies

Ingredients

• one batch of sugar cookie dough
• food coloring in at least 3 different colors, I use this  neon food coloring

Directions

• Prepare one batch of sugar cookie dough and allow it to chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour. While it chills, gather ingredients needed for the “tie-dye” process.

1. Separate dough into 4 bowls.
2. Add 8-10 drops of food coloring to each bowl and mix until the color is well blended.
3. Clean the countertop thoroughly, then dust it with a thin layer of flour. Take a nickel-sized amount of each dough and roll it into one ball.
4. Roll dough between your hands to make a snake-shaped long piece of dough.

1. 1. Lay it on the counter and roll it into a spiral.
   2. Place onto a cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray or lined with parchment paper.
   3. Bake at 375 degrees F. 8-10 minutes until done.
   4. Cool for 2 minutes on the pan before removing cookies to a rack to cool.

Optional: I can’t eat sugar cookies without frosting. If you like your cookies with frosting too, make this simple cream cheese frosting to slather on top of the cookies.

Pro Tips

• Don’t want to make sugar cookie dough from scratch? I have used a Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie mix to cut down the time, and it works great. Do what makes you happy.
• Be sure to chill the cookie dough in the fridge for about an hour after mixing it up. If the dough gets too sticky to work with while making the swirly tie-dye cookies, just pop the dough back in the fridge to firm up again.
• Make sure to clean your countertop thoroughly and dust it with a thin layer of flour before you start rolling the cookie dough into designs. Cookie dough can be sticky. Add more flour to the countertop as needed while you work. 

If you make Tie Dye Cookies, please leave us a comment and a positive review! They mean a lot to us. 

Tie Dye Sugar Cookies

Tie-dye sugar cookies are a twist on the classic cookie, they're super fun to make.

5 from 1 vote

Print Pin Rate

Prep Time: 2 hours

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 2 hours

Servings: 36

Calories: 256kcal

Author: Pretty Providence

Cost: $20

Video

Equipment

• 4 small mixing bowls
• Parchment Paper
• 2-3 Cookie Sheets
• cooling rack

Ingredients

• 1 batch sugar cookie dough
• 4 colors neon food coloring
• 1 cup flour use as needed, for dusting countertop

Instructions

• Prepare one batch of sugar cookie dough and allow it to chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour. While it chills, gather ingredients needed for the "tie-dye" process.
• Separate dough into 4 bowls.
• Add 8-10 drops of food coloring to each bowl and mix until color is well blended.
• Clean countertop thoroughly and then dust it with a thin layer of flour.
• Take a nickle sized amount of each dough and roll it into one ball.
• Roll dough between your hands to make a snake-shaped long piece of dough. Lay it on the counter and roll it into a spiral.
• Place onto a cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray or lined with parchment paper.
• Bake at 375 degrees F. 8-10 minutes until done.
• Cool for 2 minutes on the pan before removing cookies to a rack to cool.

Notes

We love this recipe for traditional soft sugar cookies.

If you want to use a mix instead of dough made from scratch, we recommend using a 17.5 oz bag of Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie mix. 

Make sure to clean your countertop thoroughly and dust it with a thin layer of flour before you start rolling the cookie dough into designs. Cookie dough can be sticky. Add more flour to the countertop as needed while you work. 

Nutrition

Serving: 36cookies | Calories: 256kcal

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• Fudge Brownie Cookies
• Oreo Pudding Cookies
• Oatmeal S’mores Cookies

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This post was originally published in 2014 and has been updated with new photos, a video, and detailed recipe instructions.