Autumn Leaf Patchwork Cookies

Discovered on countryliving.com. Use your favorite sugar cookie dough recipe to prepare these.

• Ready In: 15 mins
• Yields: 4 dozen

Ingredients

•  sugar  cookie dough (enough to make 48 cookies)
•  food coloring (create autumn colors that include brown or tan, fuschia, red or burgundy, yellow or gold, green, etc)
•  sanding sugar or  turbinado sugar

Directions

1. Divide the dough into four (or more) batches and tint each with food coloring.
2. Create a multicolored patchwork by pressing dough pieces from each batch together on lightly floured parchment paper.
3. Smooth with rolling pin to 1/4" thickness.
4. Chill for 15 minutes, then cut out shapes using fall leaf-shaped cookie cutters.
5. Bake according to your cookie recipe's instructions.
6. Decorate: Create leaf veins with a toothpick, then sprinkle with sanding sugar (we used turbinado aka raw sugar instead).
7. Prep does not include chilling or shaping.