Christmas Pinwheel Cookies

Name: Christmas Pinwheel Cookies
Prep time: 8 h 30 min
Cook time: 8 h 30 min
Total time: 8 h 30 min
Yield: 72
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 0 teaspoons baking soda; 237 milliliters packed brown sugar; 315 milliliters butter; 2 eggs, beaten; 946 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 158 milliliters white sugar

Christmas Pinwheel Cookies is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe serves 72. One portion of this dish contains around 1g of protein, 4g of fat, and a total of 76 calories. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It is perfect for Christmas. If you have baking powder, sugar, vanillan extract, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 8 hours and 30 minutes.

Instructions

Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together into a bowl. Resift again into another bowl.

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Baking Soda

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Beat the butter with the brown and white sugars in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until smooth. Gradually stir in the flour mixture until evenly blended. Gather the dough into a ball, and divide into two equal parts.

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Vanilla

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Mixing Bowl

Place one half in a second bowl.

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Bowl

Add red food coloring to the dough in one bowl, and green food coloring to the dough in the other bowl. Use a fork or wooden spoon to blend the food coloring into the dough until evenly blended.

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Food Color

Dough

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Wooden Spoon

Bowl

Add additional drops of food coloring to make the desired shade.

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Food Color

Roll out the red dough to 1/4 inch (5mm) thickness.

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Dough

Roll

Roll out the green dough to 1/4 inch (5mm) thickness, and place on top of the red dough. Beginning on one edge, roll the doughs to make a log so the two colors spiral inside each other. Wrap the log in waxed paper, then in a cotton towel, and refrigerate at least 8 hours.

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Dough

Roll

Wrap

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease 2 baking sheets.

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Unwrap the dough log, and place on a clean, lightly floured surface. Slice the log into rounds 1/8 inch (3 mm) thick, and place on prepared baking sheets.

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Dough

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Bake in preheated oven until set, 5 to 6 minutes. Watch carefully to prevent edges from browning.

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Remove from oven, and cool on racks.

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