Pinwheel Christmas Cookies

Pinwheel Christmas Cookies

These are some of the most beautiful Christmas cookies & a great way to use some of that jam & jelly that you made this past summer.  I grew up making these cookies with my mom - it is my mom's recipe.

The cookie cutter that you see below can be found on Amazon.com

This recipe is difficult because you have to use icing sugar (powdered sugar) for rolling instead of flour - this makes the dough very sticky & it is just not so easy to roll out.  However, it will be worth the effort once you taste these lovely cookies.

Printable Recipe

1 cup sifted flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

6 tablespoons unsalted butter

1/2 cup whipping cream

2/3 cup apricot jam (you may use other flavors of jam & jelly)

powdered sugar (for rolling & to dust on top)

1.  Sift the flour & baking powder into a large bowl. 

2.  Cut the butter into the sifted ingredients until crumbly (it will resemble a crumb topping).  3.  In a different bowl - beat the whipping cream with an electric mixer until whipped & stiff.  4.  Stir the whipped cream into the flour mixture until combined to make a stiff dough. 

5.  Wrap the dough in wax paper & chill several hours in the fridge. 

6.  Cut the dough into 4 pieces & only roll out 1 chunk at a time.

7.  Dust your rolling surface with a little powdered sugar & roll out 1 chunk of the dough until it is about 1/8 " thick. 

8.  Use your Pinwheel cutter & cut as many cookies as you can from the rolled out dough.  9.  Moisten your finger & dot every other point with some water.  Now fold (but do Not crease) every other point into the center of the cookie (see the top 4 cookies in the picture below starting at the left - every other corner is folded down into the middle).

10.  (Now you have 2 options - you can bake the cookie with the jam in the middle or place the jam in the middle afterwards).  (the jam will run a little if baked) Place a little jam on top of the overlapped points in the middle of each cookie.

11.  Bake in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes or until desired texture & golden brown color is achieved.

12.  Repeat steps 7-11 until all of the dough has been used up.

13.  Allow cookies to completely cool & then dust with powdered sugar.

 ENJOY!!

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