Pride Cookies
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Celebrate Pride with these delicious rainbow Pride cookies! Our soft sugar cookie dough is dyed rainbow colors and baked into cookies. Make a big batch to share with all your friends!
We've long been LGBTIQ+ allies. Many of our closest friends, our chosen family, are gay. The recipe for these Pride cookies was developed years ago when we were asked to bring a dessert to a Pride brunch party. We love mixing the rainbow flag colors together to make a colorful tie-dyed cookie.
We start by making a basic sugar cookie dough. Then we divide it into six portions and dye them the colors of the rainbow. By sticking a little bit of each color together we make these pretty rainbow Pride cookies.
The month of June is when Pride month is usually celebrated. But you can celebrate love and diversity all year round with these rainbow cookies.
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈
What do the colors on the Pride flag represent?
The most recognized Pride flag includes six colors that mean:
- Red: Life
- Orange: Healing
- Yellow: Sunshine
- Green: Nature
- Indigo: Harmony
- Violet: Soul
In 2018, artist Daniel Quasar created the Progress Pride flag which includes the well-known six colors and adds black and brown stripes LGBTIQ+ people of color and blue, pink, and white strips from the trans flag.
If you'd like these Pride cookies to be all-inclusive, add all 11 colors to the mix!
Ingredients needed
To make these Pride cookies, you'll need:
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Sea salt
- Butter – make sure to let it soften to room temperature.
- Brown sugar – for the proper measurement, pack it into the measuring cup.
- Granulated sugar
- Vanilla extract
- Egg
- Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple food coloring
This recipe starts out like most sugar cookie recipes. The fun begins when we form them into rainbow cookies.
- Whisk the dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Now cream the butter with sugar until it becomes light and fluffy. Then, add the egg and vanilla.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ones to make your cookie dough.
- Now divide the cookie dough into six equal portions and use food coloring to dye them the colors of the rainbow.
- To make the cookies, pinch a teaspoon-sized piece of dough from each color and put them together on a baking sheet.
- Once the sugar cookies bake, they'll blend together into tie-dye rainbow cookies.
We have a tip for making your cookies perfectly round! As soon as they come out of the oven, put a glass that is slightly bigger than a cookie over top of it and give it a little swirl. It will form it into a perfectly round cookie. A martini glass works great for large cookies while a drinking glass works for medium-sized cookies.
Recipe FAQs
What food coloring should I use?
For the most vibrant color, we recommend using a good-quality brand. Our top picks are Wilton and Americolor.
How long do these cookies last?
These Pride cookies will keep well for 3-4 days in a sealed container.
What happens if I bake the cookies too long?
Besides becoming dry, the color will fade if the cookies are overbaked.
Where did you get the idea to make these fun cookies?
The inspiration for these Pride cookies came from Katrina over at In Katrina's Kitchen.
Pride Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 cup butter (at room temperature)
- ½ cup brown sugar (packed )
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 large eggs
- Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a medium-sized bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt.2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoons baking powder, ½ teaspoon sea salt
- In a large bowl, use an electric beater to beat the butter and both sugars until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla and beat to combine.1 cup butter, ½ cup brown sugar, ½ cup granulated sugar, 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract, 1 large eggs
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and beat, scraping the sides of the bowl a few times with a rubber spatula, until a stiff dough forms.
- Divide the dough into 6 small bowls. Add a few drops of the food coloring to the bowls, one color per bowl, and stir until the color is incorporated.Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple food coloring
- Working with one color at a time put 1 teaspoon of the dough on 9 evenly spaced spots on one of the baking sheets. Next, put another teaspoon of another color of dough so it touches the first color. Repeat until each cookie has all 6 colors.
- Bake the cookies for 9-10 minutes. Make sure not to overcook them or the colors will start to fade. To make the cookies perfectly round, as soon as they come out of the oven, place a cup slightly larger than the cookie over the top and swirl it around gently. Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack and let them cook completely before you store them.
Notes
Nutrition
We have thoroughly tested this recipe for accuracy. However, individual results may vary. See our full recipe disclosure here.
For more inspiration, check out all of our cookie recipes!
