Recipe: Tasty Pinwheel Cookies

Pinwheel Cookies. These pinwheel cookie recipes will look beautiful on your platter. Learn how to get that perfect swirl, plus check out our best recipes, tips and techniques. These pretty pinwheel cookies have tempting swirly layers of orange and chocolate. I really mess up my kitchen whenever I bake a batch, but the smiles on the faces of family and friends enjoying them make it all worthwhile. — Paulette Morgan, Moorhead, Minnesota To make the pinwheel cookies in a vanilla and chocolate combination, divide the dough into two parts. Cool slightly, and mix the chocolate into one half of the dough until well blended.

Holiday Pinwheel Cookies are so fun on a cookie tray! Made by rolling with two colors of dough together. Freeze the log of dough for up to a month for slice-and-bake cookies. You can have Pinwheel Cookies using 6 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pinwheel Cookies

1. You need 226 g of butter/margarine.
2. You need 1 cup of sugar.
3. You need 2 of eggs.
4. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
5. Prepare 3-3.5 cups of all purpose flour.
6. You need of Food color of your choice..I used red and green.

Christmas cookies are always a favorite with Southern Living readers, so it is little wonder that this recipe for Basic Butter Cookie Dough became a holiday favorite. These pinwheel cookies have a delightful old fashioned look that is totally cute but very tasty, too! In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.

Pinwheel Cookies instructions

1. You can use your hands or a food processor to mix everything by hand.
2. Divide your dough into 2 halves...color one green and the other red... Cover with cling film and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
3. Take out each dough..roll it out..and place on top of each other..do so on a parchment paper.
4. Gently roll it over into a log and seal the edges.
5. Cut your log.
6. See how good it looks on the inside.
7. Refrigerate for a while.. Before baking.
8. Bake at 170 for about 15 minutes.
9. Ready to eat.
10. You can use your hands or a food processor to mix everything by hand.
11. Divide your dough into 2 halves...color one green and the other red... Cover with cling film and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
12. Take out each dough..roll it out..and place on top of each other..do so on a parchment paper.
13. Gently roll it over into a log and seal the edges.
14. Cut your log.
15. See how good it looks on the inside.
16. Refrigerate for a while.. Before baking.
17. Bake at 170 for about 15 minutes.
18. Ready to eat.

In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, salt and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. No matter how unspectacular a cookie tastes, the way it looks will make it spectacular. Don't get me wrong, these cookies are delicious. Simple vanilla and chocolate butter cookies.