You might also like these vegan lemon cream cheese cookies and vegan lemon shortbread cookies. If you’d told me a couple of years back that I would be baking up a tray of pink cookies and there would be sprinkles in my pantry, I would have laughed at you. But now here I am, in my kitchen, mixing up a batch of shocking-pink cookie dough, sweet and tart all at the same time. And at my elbow is a jar of, you guessed it, sprinkles! They say you eat with your eyes first, and that’s probably even truer about children. I might put the tastiest cake in front of Jay, but if it isn’t colorful, or bright, or pretty, chances are, he is just not going to enjoy it as much. So, I have given in. Because there’s nothing worse than putting a food in front of a child and seeing his sweet little face crumple in disappointment. There were more than a few butterflies flapping away in my tummy when I put these colorful cookies in front of Jay. But then his eyes widened. Yummy, mom! he declared, and I knew I had a winner on my hands: my Pink Lemonade Cookie Bars. These cookies are perfectly straightforward to make, and they really do taste like lemonade. The dough is rather like a sugar-cookie dough, with lots of lemon added for tartness, and some coloring to create that pretty pink look. But there’s no need to cut out individual cookies. All you do is press the dough into a baking pan, the way you would a shortbread, bake it up, and then separate it out into bars. Check to get new recipe updates by email.
The dough itself is so tasty, you will have a hard time keeping yourself from nibbling on little bits of it as you work with it. But that’s not really something bad, it it?
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