Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies

Name: Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking soda; 118 milliliters butter, softened; 1 large egg; 414 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons red food coloring paste; 0 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract

Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains around 7g of protein, 25g of fat, and a total of 613 calories. It will be a hit at your Christmas event. Head to the store and pick up baking soda, flour, egg, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 35 minutes.

Instructions

Beat butter at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.

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Butter

Sugar

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Stand Mixer

Add egg and vanilla, beating until blended, scraping bowl as needed.

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Vanilla

Egg

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Bowl

Combine flour, baking soda, and salt; gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, beating at low speed until blended.

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Baking Soda

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All Purpose Flour

Salt

Divide dough into 2 equal portions.

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Dough

Roll 1 portion of dough into a 12- x 8-inch rectangle on a piece of lightly floured plastic wrap.

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Dough

Roll

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Knead food coloring paste into remaining portion of dough while wearing rubber gloves.

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Food Color

Dough

Roll tinted dough into a rectangle as directed in Step Invert untinted dough onto tinted dough; peel off plastic wrap.

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Dough

Roll

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Cut dough in half lengthwise, forming 2 (12- x 4-inch) rectangles.

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Dough

Roll up each rectangle, jelly-roll fashion, starting at 1 long side, using bottom piece of plastic wrap as a guide. Wrap in plastic wrap, and freeze 4 hours or up to 1 month.

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Jelly

Roll

Wrap

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Preheat oven to 35

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Cut ends off each dough log, and discard.

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Dough

Cut dough into 1/4-inch-thick pieces, and place on parchment paper-lined baking sheets.

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Baking Sheet

Bake at 350 for 6 to 7 minutes or until puffed and set; cool cookies on baking sheets 5 minutes.

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Remove to wire racks, and cool completely (about 30 minutes).

Place Peppermint Frosting in a heavy-duty zip-top plastic freezer bag. Snip 1 corner of bag to make a small hole. Pipe about 2 tsp. frosting onto half of cookies; top with remaining cookies, gently pressing to form a sandwich.

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Peppermint