PARTY COOKIES

Steps:

• Melt the butter. Add the sugars and mix. Let the mixture cool to room temperature and mix in the eggs, one at a time. Then add the vanilla, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt. Mix well. Add the flour in half cup increments mixing after each addition. Divide the cookie dough into fourths and place each fourth on a piece of waxed paper. Place on fourth in a bowl and stir in drops of food coloring until the dough is slightly darker than the color you want. Place the dough back onto the waxed paper and color the other three parts. Let the dough firm up for a few moments. Then divide each different color into four parts so you have sixteen lumps of dough in all. Place a sheet of plastic wrap on your counter and roll each lump into a dough rope with your hands. The sixteen dough ropes should each be about 12 inches long. To assemble, stack the dough ropes, two on the bottom and two on the top, near the edge of the plastic wrap. Squeeze them together a bit and push in the ends so they're even. Flip the edge of the plastic wrap over the top and roll them up together tightly in one multi-colored roll. Twist the ends of the plastic wrap, fold them over on top of the roll and refrigerate the rolls as you make them. When you're all finished, you'll have four rolls of multi-colored cookie dough chilling in your refrigerator. Let the dough chill for at least an hour. When you're ready to bake, preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Put 1/4 cup sugar in a small bowl and have it ready next to your greased cookie sheets. Take out the dough roll, unwrap it and slice it into 1/2 inch thick rounds. Place each round into the bowl of sugar abd flip it over so it coats both sides.