A friend used to make these in her preschool class, but couldn’t find the recipe. I hit the ‘net and came up with this:
PLAY-DOH COOKIES
2/3 cup butter (softened)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp almond extract
1 2/3 cup flour
Food Color – red, yellow, blue, greenBlend butter and sugar. Add almond and flour. Mixture will be course crumbs. Separate into globs…for each color being used. Add food color as desired. The liquid in the color will be just enough to form the dough. Don’t get anxious and add more liquid or the children will not be able to use as play-doh.
Play-dough cookie batter is great for kids to mold and cut as desired. The creations can then be baked and eaten. Bake at 300′ for 20-25 minutes. Edges will be firm, bottoms not brown.
I tweaked it to use a single stick of butter, and paste food coloring:
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter (softened)
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup flour
Paste Food Color – red, yellow, blue, green
I used two toothpicks of food color for each glob of dough except red which took 8 and still isn’t *quite* as red as I’d like but I had limited patience and this is a trial run anyway.
So far, so good! The dough is currently parked in the fridge awaiting shaping and baking at a later date.
I also found this recipe but I don’t think it’s as promising. Did want to save it JIC.