For the Cookies

• Preheat your oven to 375 F / 190 C / Gas Mark 5 and line a baking tray with baking parchment.
• Rub the butter, flour and sugar together in a bowl until it makes a sandy textured crumb.
• Mix the eggs and vanilla together before combining with the flour, sugar and butter mix.
• Divide the cookie mix as follows, divide it into six bowls. Start with a couple of dessert spoons in the first bowl and roughly double up in each bowl. Then mix each bowl with your food colouring. ( See pictures in the post ).
• Chill the coloured dough in the fridge for fifteen minutes and then roll the purple into a sausage shape. Roll the remaining colours out between sheets of cling film. Working in reverse order wrap the colours around the purple cookie cylinder.
• You will then end up with a large rainbow cookie roll. Trim off the ends and use to make multi coloured cookies and thoroughly chill.
• Carefully cut in half then slice into semi circles about 3/4 centimetre in thickness.
• Spread out onto a tray with baking parchment or a silicon baking mat. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Ten for a softer, chewy cookie, twelve for a more crisp biscuit.
• Remove from the oven and leave to cool for a few minutes then transfer onto wire rack.