Red White and Blue Pinwheel Cookies
These festive cookies can be customized for any holiday or special occasion!
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1½ cup soft unsalted butter
- 2 cup granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- red gel food coloring
- blue gel food coloring
Instructions
- Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.1½ cup soft unsalted butter, 2 cup granulated sugar
- Add all 4 eggs at one time and then add the vanilla. Mix to combine.4 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.5 cup flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt
- Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
- Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
- Divide your batter into thirds and place into separate bowls.
- In bowl #1 add red gel food coloring. Using your hands to knead the dough to make sure the color is even throughout.red gel food coloring
- In bowl#2 add the blue gel food coloring. Using your hands to knead the dough to make sure the color is even throughout.blue gel food coloring
- In bowl #3 the color remains as it is.
- Remove each of the balls of colored dough from their bowls and wrap tightly in plastic wrap.
- Place in the refrigerator for at least one hour or over night.
- Flour 3 cutting boards and rolling pin.
- Taking your red chilled dough and cover it with flour. Using your rolling pin flatten (roll) out that dough. Leave on that cutting board.
- Repeat with the blue and white dough balls.
- Using a metal spatula, to lift up the white rolled out dough and place it on top of the red dough. Then place the blue dough on top of that.
- Gently press down with the rolling pin to compress the three sheets of dough.
- Tightly roll the combined chilled dough into one log.
- Wrap this log with plastic wrap closing both ends.
- Place in your freezer for about one hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Take out of your freezer and remove the plastic wrap, cutting the dough into 2 inch pieces, keeping the shape of a circle.
- Place the cut slices on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
- Bake at the 350 degrees for 18- 20 more minutes or until they are slightly brown on the edges