Instructions:

1. Ingredients: Make sugar cookie dough (see recipe here)

2. Separate dough into 2 halves. Add red food coloring to one half until your mixture reaches your desired color. You can knead food coloring into dough if you do not have a stand mixer.

3. Place red cookie dough between two sheets of parchment paper. Roll red cookie dough to about 1/4 inch thick rectangle. Use powdered sugar if needed to stop dough from sticking. Leave between parchment paper and place on baking sheet in the fridge to chill.

4. Roll out other half of non-colored dough and chill like the first.

5. Once both are chilled, remove parchment paper and stack them on top of each other and roll gently together. Roll into a log and roll in sanding sugar. If dough is too soft to work with, refrigerate for 30 minutes and then try again.

6. Once dough is formed into a log, wrap tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

7. Slice cookies and place on cookie sheet about 1 inch apart. Bake at 350 for 7 to 10 minutes.

8. Allow to cool for 5 minutes on the cookie sheet and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.

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