Category: Holiday Cookies

Spiral cookies are great for any time of year! You can make them in so many ways – colored sugar or make them cinnamon or lemon or chocolate chip. They are an easy slice-and-bake sugar cookie with a delicious filling – and they’re perfect for the holidays.

Ingredients Needed

• Sugar- These use Granulated Sugar
• Butter – Make sure it’s softened for easy use. You can use unsalted or salted (I used Challenge Unsalted Butter).
• Almond extract- You can also use vanilla extract if you prefer that flavor.
• Egg- I always like to use large eggs. 
• Salt – omit if using salted butter
• All-purpose flour – Be sure to measure it correctly!

How to Make Spiral Cookies

1. Make the dough: Cream sugar and butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. You can also use a hand mixer. Add almond extract, salt, and egg. Mix everything together until it’s completely combined, scraping the sides of the bowl when necessary. Slowly stir in flour and mix until it’s just combined.
2. Fill and roll the dough: Divide the dough into two separate pieces. Place one-half on wax paper or plastic wrap. Use your hands or a rolling pin to press the dough into an 8-inch rectangle. Fill the dough with a filling of your desire, there are some great filling suggestions below. Use the bottom sheet of wax paper or plastic wrap to help you roll the dough properly. Repeat this process with the second half of the dough. Wrap rolls in plastic wrap and place them in the refrigerator until they are firm. This should take about 1 hour, but you can leave them in overnight if you’d like. 
3. Slice cookie dough: Heat the oven to 350°F. Slice rolls of cookie dough into ¼-inch slices. Place them on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper or a silpat baking mat. 
4. Bake: Bake the cookie rolls for 6-9 minutes until the bottom edges begin to brown. You may want to rotate the cookie sheets halfway through the baking process. Let them cool for one minute on a cookie sheet, and then remove them to a cooling rack. Store them in an airtight container for up to 3 days or freeze them for up to one month. 

Expert Tips

Colorful: Pick two colors of colored sugar (for example: red and green for Christmas). Work on one rectangle of dough at a time, sprinkling alternate lines of colored sugar before rolling up. 

Chocolate chip: Working on one rectangle of dough at a time, sprinkle around ½ cup of mini chocolate chips on each rectangle. Then, press them in the dough to adhere them before rolling them up. 

Cinnamon sugar: Mix ¼ cup granulated sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Work on one rectangle of dough at a time, sprinkling half the cinnamon sugar on each before you roll them up.

Storage & Make Ahead

• Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
• These cookies will stay good in the freezer for up to one month.
• I often make the rolled dough ahead and chill them for a day or two before I slice and bake them.

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Spiral Cookies Recipes

Pinwheel Cookies are the perfect easy sugar cookie recipe for any holiday. You can fill these cookies with anything you want! Here are four different pinwheel cookie variations that we love to make: cinnamon sugar, chocolate chip, colorful sugar for any holiday, and lemon curd or jam! You're going to love this easy cookie recipe!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Chill time 1 hour hour

Total Time 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes

Servings 40 cookies

Calories 115kcal

Author Dorothy Kern

Cost $10

Ingredients

Cookie Dough:

• 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
• 1 cup (226g) unsalted Challenge butter softened
• ½  teaspoon almond extract , optional (use vanilla extract if you prefer)
• 1 large egg
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 ¼ cups (273g) all-purpose flour

Filling suggestions:

• ¼ cup each of two colored sugars (red and green for Christmas)
• 1 cup (170g) mini chocolate chips
• ¼ cup (50g) granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• ½ cup lemon curd or jam

Instructions

• Cream sugar and butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. (You can also use a hand mixer.) Add almond extract, salt, and egg and mix until combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Slowly stir in your flour and mix until just combined.
• Divide dough into two pieces. Place one half on wax or plastic wrap spread out on your counter. Cover the top with another sheet of wax paper or plastic wrap. Use your hands or a rolling pin to press the dough into a 8-inch rectangle (oblong is fine). Fill the dough as desired using one of the filling suggestions below. Use the bottom sheet of wax paper or plastic wrap to help you roll the dough. Repeat with the second half of dough. Wrap rolls in plastic wrap and place in refrigerator until firm, about 1 hour (overnight is fine).
• Heat oven to 350°. Slice rolls of cookie dough into 1/4-inch slices. Place on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper or a silpat baking mat.
• Bake 6-9 minutes until the bottom edges begin to brown. You may want to rotate the cookie sheets halfway through baking. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet and then remove to a cooling rack. Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days or freeze for up to one month.

Colorful:

• Pick two colors of colored sugar (i.e. red and green for Christmas). Working on one rectangle of dough at a time, sprinkle alternating lines of colored sugar before rolling up.

Chocolate Chip:

• Working on one rectangle of dough at a time, sprinkle about 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips on each rectangle, then press to adhere them, before rolling up.

Cinnamon Sugar

• Mix 1/4 cup granulated sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Working on one rectangle of dough at a time, sprinkle half the cinnamon sugar on each before rolling up.

Lemon or Jam

• Working on one rectangle of dough at a time, spread each with a thin layer of lemon curd or jam before rolling up.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 115kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 17mg | Sodium: 35mg | Potassium: 10mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 158IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 10mg | Iron: 1mg

Challenge Dairy is a California company, based in the Bay Area, where I grew up. My dad grew up eating Challenge and it’s the only butter he buys. In fact, whenever we talk about cooking or baking and butter comes up, he talks about how much he loves the flavor and how it really is the BEST butter. This post was sponsored by them years ago.

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