Spiral Cookies. 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. Position the dough with the long edge facing you and roll the dough away into a spiral. Rating: Unrated Be the first to rate & review!

Pull out these peppermint-flavored and holiday-themed cookies for any festive get-together! Source: Better Homes and Gardens Save Pin Print. Spiral cookies taste like a sugar cookie but the recipe is just a bit different than a traditional sugar cookie recipe. You can have Spiral Cookies using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Spiral Cookies

Prepare of VANILLA DOUGH.
It's 1.5 cups of Flour –.
Prepare ½ cup of Butter –.
Prepare ½ cup of Sugar –.
Prepare 1 of Egg – beaten.
You need 4 drops of Vanilla essence –.
It's pinch of Salt – a.
You need of CHOCOLATE DOUGH.
Prepare 1.25 cups of Flour –.
It's ½ cup of Salt –.
You need ½ cup of Sugar –.
It's 1 of Egg – beaten.
You need ¼ cup of Cocoa powder –.

Add the sugar, baking powder, and salt; beat until combined. Beat in the egg, vanilla, and, if desired peppermint extract until combined. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Move the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.

Spiral Cookies instructions

I decided to go old school and used no mixer, just went with a spatula and bowl on this one. I did not want to bring the mixer from the shelf and go through the cleaning afterwards. In a bowl, I whisked the eggs, added the sugar and butter and beat it well. Add the vanilla essence, salt and the flour. Mix well to form a nice soft dough. I remember being tempted to eating some dough back in the day, and I did that last night as well :).
Do the same to make the chocolate dough – the only difference is instead of the vanilla essence, you add the cocoa powder.
I put both the dough in separate baggies and stuck it in the fridge for 30mins or so, just so it can harden a bit for the process to follow.
Mins layer, roll out the dough on a nice clean surface. Dust it a bit with flour if you think the dough will stick. Start with the vanilla dough, roll it out and do the same with the chocolate dough and place the chocolate over the vanilla dough. Roll into a log and slice into discs (1/2 thickness). Here is where I had the trouble LOL. I need to work on my disc cutting skills. As you can see my cookies are not the perfect circle :).
Transfer these discs to a non-stick / well greased baking sheet. Bake in a preheated oven at 175C (350F) – should be done in 15mins – Keep an eye on the cookies – they should be done when the vanilla dough starts to go slightly brown.

If you have any scraps of dough leftover, just roll them out in worm like strips, bake them and enjoy a treat! I just love your gorgeous spiral cookies! They looked so perfectly rolled and clean. First time I've made them,I was using Sugar Cookie Mix from a box just to try them out to see how the dough turn out to be. The dough was easy to work with and it turned out looking really good in texture.