Red, White & Blue Pinwheel Cookies
An easy to follow recipe
Perfect for your 4th of July Celebrations!!
Ingredients:
- 5 C flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 C soft unsalted butter
- 2 C granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- Red & Blue gel food coloring
Directions:
- Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
- Add all 4 eggs at one time…Continue to mix. -Add the vanilla.. Continue mixing.
- Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.
- Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
- Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
- Divide your batter into thirds.
- Place in 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.
- In bowl#2 add the blue gel food coloring. Using your hands to knead the dough to make sure the color is even throughout.
- 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 overnight.
- Remove from the refrigerator.
- Select your main color which will be the outside roll of the pinwheel.
- Flour 3 cutting boards and rolling pin.
- Taking your primary colored chilled dough and cover it with flour.. Using your rolling pin flatten (roll) out that dough. Leave on that cutting board.
- Taking your secondary colored dough and cover it with flour… Using your rolling pin flatten (roll) out that dough.
- Taking your third dough out (white) and cover it with flour… Using your rolling pin flatten (roll) out that dough.
- Using a metal spatula to lift up the #3 (white) rolled out dough.
- Lay that batter on the top of your primary dough. (Red)
- Using a metal spatula to lift up the #2 (blue) rolled out dough.
- Lay that dough( blue) on the top of the white dough.
- Using your rolling pin roll the two together… Cut away any extra chilled dough.
- 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 bottom.
These would be fun to make for my mom’s birthday on the 4th. I like it, thanks for sharing!
those look so so good,,they wouldnt last long here
I LOVE these pinwheels! They’re so festive and pretty! I’m going to a huge family reunion on July 4th and I’m so glad I came across this recipe. I’m not much of a baker, but I think even I could make these! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!
Those cookies looks so good I will make it during the year.Thank you
Those cookies looks so good I will make it during the year.Thank you
I am so in love with all these great patriotic recipes i have been coming across. Awesome way to impress your guests with these red, white, & blue pinwheel cookies. Very easy to follow recipe. These would not last long in our house.
these look so good and they will be prefect of the 4th of July
These are great! Thank you for the delish recipe, can not wait to make these with my wee one 🙂
These cookies are really patriotic looking – all they need is to be put on a stick & let he wind twirl them around right into my mouth!! I pinned this recipe.
My son would have so much fun making these with me!
What wonderfully festive cookies, they make a great 4th of July treat. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Theses look good like to try this
These looks so delicious. This would be great for our cookout tomorrow
This is so cute!! I know my parents, hubby, and kids would love these!!
That does sound easy to make. I like my cookies slightly under baked.They stay soft that way.
I have to bring dessert tomorrow, these would be festive!
Creative and fun way.
Good reminder. I had soooo much fun making regular Pinwheel cookies as a child. I haven’t made them since!
These are so pretty and seems like all the ingredients i have on hand ..I think i will try this .My problem is no one around to eat them all ..could donate to the shelter too ..Yea.. thank you for sharing such a great recipe 😀
great cookie receipe for the 4th.. yum… thanks
Those patriotic pin wheels are so creative and eye catching! Thanks for sharing!
I’ve made a rainbow version of these. One on hand it was a bit easier than I had thought it would be, but on the other hand it wasn’t quite as easy as I was hoping. Definitely fun to make and a perfect treat to take to your Fourth of July cook outs.
These look really good! Thanks for sharing!
I love how festive and simple these are. They look delicious!!
What a fun looking cookie , I bet the children love help making these. And I am loving that they are easy to make and the grandchildren can help in on this..
Yummy festive pinwheel cookie. So colorful and delicious. Everyone would love these at my cookout.
These really look and sound delish and they look so fun to make 🙂 Thank you for sharing 🙂
Very festive!
To boost the flavor of these colorful cookies, I would suggest adding a teaspoon of flavored extract- lemon or raspberry, almond would work well too.
hay those look cute and simple to make.got to try them.
Yummy recipe’s!! Thx
This would be a fun recipe for the 4th of July celebration with the kids. I liked how you put cookie dough into separate bowls, that you had labeled #1-#3.
Very patriotic and look fun to make.
Those are fun and could be used for many holidays by changing the colors.
Oh wow! These look delicious!! I can’t wait to try them. I’ve got it pinned. I know my grandchildren will love to help me make them.
Missed the recipe this year, but I will be making these next year!
Those cookies look awesome! I’ll definitely check out this recipe, thanks for posting!
They look so delicious!
Bummer I didnt find this before today 🙂 They would have been perfect for my party. I will save the recipe though I will make them for the kidlets I babysit for sure 🙂
those cookies look delicious !
these look so fun! i bet if i let my kids have at them they’d come up with some awesome designs!
I love pinwheel cookies and these red, white, and blue pinwheels could be used for all of our Patriotic holidays!
Yummy looking cookies. Would be a great treat!
I love this! And so easy to make gluten-free, too. I am going to try these tonight. I might experiment with different colors, as well!
These look so awesome!
wow, these look great, and while they are Patriotic I would probably still make them all year round lol.
These cookies look so amazing cant wait to try making them with the kids and we love to eat them too.
Very creative and something I would like to try
These look so yummy and seem pretty easy to make!
Pinned! These look really good!!
These look delicious & so cute!
wow these aren’t as hard to make as they look! I’m thinking of using other colors, too, for a great cookie – I must try making these!
All I can say is yummy!
These cookies look like they would be great fun to make!
So festival & Easy to make, plus they are really tasty!!
I am going to make these for Labor Day. These are good on any American occasion. Thanks for the fine recipe.
These Red, White & Blue Pinwheel Cookies would be so much fun to make for the 4th of July or for any party. I am sure they are tasty too!
GREAT idea! So simple & cute! Switch the colors for different holidays. Add lollipop sticks too for Birthdays! Thanks!
Those would be wonderful for a kids birthday party too! So awesome!
I tried making these two weeks ago and they were such a hit! Easy, fun and tasty!
I love this idea, I’m thinking I could use different food coloring colors for fall!!