Christmas Pinwheel Cookies make the holidays even more festive! An easy homemade cookie dough is tinted with holiday colors and rolled into pinwheels. Just roll, slice and bake. So much fun for the holidays!
Everyone will want to help make this simple cookie recipe that rolls up into fun spiral cookies.
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Christmas Pinwheel Cookies
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Make these colorful cookies even more festive and roll in holiday sprinkles.
Red and green pinwheel cookies will put a smile on everyone’s face.
With just four ingredients, plus food coloring, these cookies will be ready just in time for Santa’s arrival.
Add a glass of milk and Santa won’t want to leave!
And I recommend that you check out another classic holiday cookie recipe, my Chocolate Crinkle Cookies!
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Pinwheel Cookies FAQ’s
What are pinwheel cookies?
Pinwheel cookies are a basic cookie dough recipe that gets dyed with food colors. The doughs get rolled up together to create a swirl design. Then slice and bake.
How to make pinwheel cookies
- Make your homemade cookie dough and tint with food colors
- Roll out doughs
- Stack doughs on top of each other
- Roll up and chill
- Slice and bake
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Add peppermint extract for a festive holiday flavor
- Be sure that your butter is at room temperature for easy creaming
Substitutions
- You can substitute your favorite colors of food coloring to make pinwheels cookies
Ingredients
Ingredients for Christmas pinwheel cookies
- butter
- sugar
- flour
- vanilla extract
- red food color
- green food color
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Christmas Pinwheel Cookies Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 cup butter , at room temperature
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
- red food color
- green food color
- holiday sprinkles
- red and green sprinkles
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Instructions
- Beat butter and sugar until blended and fluffy.
- Add flour and vanilla and beat until well combined.
- Divide dough in half. Tint one half of dough with red food color. Tint remaining half of dough with green food color.
- Divide each piece in half again. You should now have two red and two green pieces.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll one red dough and then one green dough each into a 1/4 -inch thick rectangle, about 5” x 10”.
- Place one piece on top of the other and roll into a log beginning with longer side.
- Roll in sprinkles, if desired.
- Wrap in wax paper or plastic wrap and chill until firm, at least 30 minutes.
- Repeat with remaining red and green doughs.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350F.
- Unwrap and slice each log into 24 slices.
- Arrange on baking sheet 2-inches apart and bake 15 minutes or until edges are golden.
- Cool 3 minutes on baking sheet. Transfer to wire rack and cool completely.
Notes
- Add peppermint extract for a holiday flavor
- Add almond extract for added flavor
- Always let butter come to room temperature for easy creaming
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These scream Christmas! The red and green...and cute pinwheels! Can't wait to add these to my Christmas cookie tray!
Such a festive cookie and a lovely addition to any Christmas cookie tray
The pinwheel has me mesmerized! Like spinning Grinch cookies hypnotizing me to make these!! Too cute! And super fun!