Kiersten’s Blog

You might remember that my grandma’s here visiting for the week.  She has taught me a few things in her stay so far, one of which is these pinwheel cookies.

I used my own simple but really yummy sugar cookie recipe.  I may or may not have shared that with you in the past.  It’s just 1 cup of butter, 1 cup (I think) of sugar, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons of vanilla, 1 teaspoon of salt, 3/4 of a teaspoon of baking powder and 3 1/2 cups of flour.  Bake at 400° for 7 minutes.  That’s just off the top of my head but I’m pretty sure that’s it.  Anyway, it’s yummy because they’re soft and delicious.  I’m not normally a huge fan of sugar cookies, but these are really good.

Okay, back to the pinwheel cookies.  After mixing the dough, we divide it in half.  Since we were making valentine cookies, we made one half red (using red food coloring), and left the other half white.  We then rolled out the two separate colors on wax paper and chilled them for a bit.  Later we took them out of the refrigerator and set one on top of the other and rolled them up lengthwise.  We then chilled them a little longer (which isn’t totally necessary) and cut them into 1/4 inch slices and placed them on the cookie sheets.

Then I shaped them a bit to look like hearts.  I think they turned out really cute and it was definitely easier than dealing with cookie cutters.  We’ll for sure be doing this again!

I fit 90 cookies in my cookie jar. I'm pretty sure that's NEVER happened before.