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Red, White, Blue Rainbow Crumb Cake Cookies

Ingredients
  

Crumb Layer

  • 1 stick butter room temp
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 ½ tsp cinnamon

Rainbow Cookies

  • 8 ounces almond paste
  • ¾ C. sugar
  • ½ tsp. almond extract
  • ¾ c. butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 c. flour
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • ½ c. raspberry jam seedless
  • ½ bag approx 5 ounces Ghirardelli milk chocolate chips
  • red and blue food coloring

Toppnig

  • powdered sugar

Instructions
 

Crumb Layer

  • Beat butter, flour, sugar, cinnamon to form crumbs.
  • Line 8x8 pan with nonstick foil.
  • Sprinkle crumbs into pan, spread out.
  • Bake 15 minutes, stirring once at 350-let cool completely. Break up any large clumps.

Rainbow cookies

  • Line 3 8x8 pans with nonstick foil.
  • Preheat oven 350.
  • In food processor, mix almond paste, sugar, extract and butter till creamy.
  • Add one egg at a time.
  • Add flour and salt.
  • Divide into 3 bowls (approx 1 cup each)
  • Tint one red, one blue and leave one as is.
  • Spread into the pans.
  • Bake approx 12 mins and let cool.
  • Line cookie sheet with parchment and flip out blue layer.
  • Spread on jam.
  • Place white layer on top.
  • Spread with raspberry jam and top with red layer.
  • Lay parchment over red layer and top with heavy books. Chill 4 hours.
  • Remove books, wrap well and chill overnight or a few hours.
  • Cut into cookies.
  • On each individual cooke, spread on melted chocolate across the top and carefully sprinkle on some crumbs.
  • Let chocolate set up.
  • (Can freeze if you want at this point)
  • Top with tons of powdered sugar!