 Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Foodimentary Adventures in Food. And I am here today with a quick and easy recipe for the Perfect Valentine's Day treat. Today I'm going to be making marbled butter cookies. And these cookies are crisp and crunchy and so delicious. So you're going to need some sugar, an egg, butter, flour, some gel food color, and some heart-shaped cookie cutters. So if you want to see how this recipe comes together, stay tuned. So I've got my butter in the bowl, and my butter is softened and at room temperature, as is my egg that I'm going to be using too. So the first thing I'm going to do is to cream my butter in my sugar. And I will make sure to have the recipe in the description box. So I'm going to cream this first. I'm going to add in my egg and my flour. So it's all mixed together, and as you can see, the dough holds together really well. This is a good dough for rolling out, which of course is what we're going to do today. But it's also a really good cookie press dough too. So I'm just going to get in there with my hands, just to make sure everything is well combined. And I'm going to grab a couple of bowls, and I am going to divide this mixture into thirds. So here is my original bowl, and then here is a bowl number two and bowl number three. So with these two bowls, I'm going to add my food gel coloring. And so I am using pink and purple. You can use whatever colors you want to use. And so I'm going to start out with this pink. You're just going to color, I mean add as much color as you see fit. So I'm just going to start out with about that much. I'm going to use a spoon and mix it in. Okay, so this is the color that I was looking for. It's really hard to say how much color I used, because the gel is really different than the liquid dye. With the liquid dye, you know, you have a little drop. So you can say, oh, I used five drops. But as you can see, you know, with the gel, it just kind of like pours out. So again, it's just kind of trial and error. You're just going to have to add dye, stir it up, and just get the color that you want. So here's the pink and I'm going to start on the purple. And here is the purple dough. So let me show you how to put all of this together. So what we're going to do now is take our dough and you're just going to roll it into balls and just set it aside just like this. So I'm not going to do all of this on camera. I'm going to finish this up and then I will be right back. So I have rolled all of my dough into little balls and on my baking mat on the bottom, I sprinkled it with powdered sugar because I don't like to roll out my cookies in flour. I don't like my cookies to taste flowery. So I put a little bit of powdered sugar on my baking mat and then I try to place the balls kind of strategically different colors. Now there may be a couple that are right next to each other like the same color wasn't on purpose. It just happened that way. But you do kind of want to, you know, alternate the colors. That's going to give you a better marbled effect. So let's get started. We're just going to roll these out just like this. Got my dough all rolled out. I'm just going to take my cookie cutters. So here are the cookies on my cookie sheet and I have my oven preheated to 350 degrees. I'm going to pop these in the oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until they are nice and golden brown. While these are in the oven, I am going to re-roll the rest of this dough and I'll be back to show you the finished product. Okay. So if you were wondering what the cookie dough looks like when you have to re-roll it, this is what it looks like. It actually looks better, kind of more like a tie dyed effect. So this is batch number two that I'm getting ready to pop into the oven. So here are both batches of the cookies. I let them cool completely. Then I put them on this plate. So this cookie and the rest of them are underneath. But this cookie is from the original batch. As you can see, the colors are clearly defined. And these cookies right here are from the second batch that I had to re-roll to get the second batch. So if you prefer this look, which is kind of more like a tie dyed look. So if you prefer this look, then what you can do when you have all of your balls from the different doughs, when you have them all together, just go ahead and mix them up right then and there. Just combine them right then and there and roll them out. Don't keep them separate like I initially did. So anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this recipe. It's a really simple recipe. Let me show you the back of the cookie. So as you can see, it's nice and golden brown. And the cookie recipe that I shared with you is a family recipe that we have used for years for all of our Christmas butter cookies. 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