Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, christmas pinwheel cookies. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Sheets of red and green butter cookie dough are rolled around each other to make a log of spiraling colors. Sliced into colorful pinwheels, these heirloom cookies are the perfect holiday treat. They can also be made in a chocolate-vanilla pinwheel variation. Your holiday cookie game is about to be strong.
Christmas pinwheel cookies is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Christmas pinwheel cookies is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook christmas pinwheel cookies using 10 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas pinwheel cookies:
- Get 3 Cups Flour
- Make ready 2 tsp Baking Powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Salt
- Get 1 cup Butter Softened
- Make ready 1 cups Granulated Sugar
- Get 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Get Red Food Coloring
- Make ready Green Food Coloring
- Take Christmas Sprinkles
Christmas Pinwheel Sugar Cookies are fun festive and incredibly easy to make. This simple recipe will have you enjoying these tasty treats in no time. It is so easy you can use your favorite recipe or mine. Even store bought dough will work in a pinch.
Instructions to make Christmas pinwheel cookies:
- In a mixing bowl, stir together the fours, baking powder and salt.
- Then in a separate mixing bowl, blend together the softened butter with the sugar until smooth (use a hand held or stand up mixer for this). Then add in the egg and vanilla and blend until combine.
- Then gradually hand stir in the flour mixture until just combined. Do not over mix.
- Divide the dough evenly into 2 separate bowls. (i did 3)
- Dye one bowl of the dough red with the red food coloring and the other green with the green food coloring. Stir in the food coloring until the color is completely incorporated.
- Wrap each dough with wax paper and refrigerate for 30 minutes-1 hour until the dough is firm.
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Then place the red dough on parchment paper or wax paper. Lightly dust with flour. Then with a rolling pin, roll out the dough until a rectangle approximately 1/4 in thick.
- Follow the same process with the green dough.
- Then place the green dough on top of the red dough leaving the parchment paper or wax paper on the outside of the dough.
- Then remove the top wax or parchment paper. Gently roll the rolling pin over the top so that the doughs stick together.
- Then roll the log gently starting on one side of the rectangle and gently remove the bottom wax or parchment paper as you roll. (If the dough is too soft, refrigerate it again so that it’s easier to work with).
- Next pour the sprinkles on a baking sheet. After the log has been formed, gently roll the log in the sprinkles so that they stick to the outside of the log.
- Then wrap the entire log with plastic wrap after it’s formed and refrigerate it for 30 minutes-1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. - Remove the log from the refrigerator, unwrap and cut the log into 1/4 inch thick slices to make the cookies and place them on an uncreased cookie sheet approximately 2 inches a part. - Bake for 12-15 minutes until the cookies are set.
- Remove the the oven, cool for approximately 5 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- You can find the kits in the stores if your lucky but the recipe makes more cookies
It is so easy you can use your favorite recipe or mine. Even store bought dough will work in a pinch. How to make Christmas pinwheel cookies: In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder and salt. Next, in a separate mixing bowl, blend together the softened butter with the sugar until smooth. (I used a stand mixer or a hand-held mixer for this). It's a slice and bake cookie just like my slice and bake rum cookies, and are incredibly easy to make!
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