RUM & COKE COOKIES

Steps:

• Prepare the rum-flavored dough:
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Mix one tube of the Pillsbury Sugar Cookie dough until creamy and smooth.
• Add one cup flour, one-quarter cup white rum (and one tablespoon of rum flavoring if you really like the taste of rum!).
• Mix until combined.
• Cover the dough in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for at least one hour.
• Prepare the cola-flavored dough:
• Mix the other tube of Pillsbury Sugar Cookie dough until creamy and smooth.
• Boil down 20 ounces of Coca-Cola in a saucepan until there is one-quarter cup remaining.
• Add the boiled-down Coca-Cola syrup, one cup of flour and two tablespoons of cocoa powder to the sugar cookie dough.
• Mix until combined.
• Cover the dough in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for at least one hour.
• Roll the dough:
• Remove doughs from plastic wrap and roll them flat between sheets of parchment paper to approximately 1/4-inch thickness. (You will get more perfect-striped cookies and have less waste if you roll the dough into more uniform rectangle shapes than I did. Lesson learned!)
• Brush on egg whites:
• Brush egg whites on the white, rum-flavored dough.
• Stack the dough:
• Lay the darker, Coke-flavored dough on top of the white, rum-flavored dough.
• Cut the doughs in half, lengthwise. Brush more egg whites on one of the dough halves, place the other dough half on top. Again, cut the stacked dough in half, lengthwise. Brush more egg whites on one of the dough halves, and place the other half on top.
• Refrigerate the dough:
• Cover the stacked doughs in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for at least two hours, or overnight if possible.
• Shape the cookie:
• Unwrap the stacked dough layers and cut slices 1/4 to 3/8-inch thick, depending on preference. You can use the striped rectangles as is, or you can cut shapes from the slices with cookie cutters. Whatever you'd like.
• If you use cookie cutters, the leftover scraps can be mixed together to make swirled rum and Coke cookies - still very pretty and delicious!
• Bake the cookies:
• Place cookie dough shapes on baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.