Aren’t these holiday-themed cookies adorable? Their vibrant colors are sure to brighten up any dessert plate. While the swirly design of these cookies makes them appear difficult to make, in reality they are quite simple. The hardest part of this recipe is actually waiting for the dough to refrigerate in between steps! This is a great treat to bake with your children, because they’ll have fun coloring the dough, and then rolling it into pinwheels. Your kids will also enjoy the taste of these delicious butter cookies (as long as you don’t eat them all first!)
This video from my YouTube Channel tells you the recipe and demonstrates all the steps involved to make these Christmas Pinwheel cookies.
Tip: If you want pinwheels that spiral more times (like the red ones above), roll your dough into a log by starting from the shorter side. If you roll your dough into a log starting from the longer side, your cookies will spiral fewer times (like the green ones above), but you will get more individual cookies out of the cookie log.
How did your cookies turn out? Did you try any cool variations on the original recipe? I’d love to hear about them, so please leave me a comment below! Also, if you like my baking videos, please subscribe to Shnugglebunny on YouTube, I really appreciate the support! It motivates me to continue making more videos!
If you enjoyed this Christmas article, you’ll also like my recipe for making “Reindeer Noses,” which are chocolate coconut macaroons with cute red candies to make them resemble Rudolph. Also be sure to check out my post on Chocolate Peppermint Shortbread, which is a perfect treat for candy cane fans.
Happy baking, and have a wonderful holiday season! Enjoy all the delicious Christmas treats this season has to offer! 🙂
♥ Shnugglebunny
Christine
I wanted to send you off a short message to thank you for making the pin wheel video. My girls are 10 and 13 and after watching the video they made some for friends and family during the holidays. It was easy for them to understand the process of how to make the cookies after watching the video and they will be looking for other video’s to watch and have taken a real interest in baking. Thank you so much for the taking the time to make these videos. This site is absolutely fabulous. Kind regards, Christine
ShnuggleBunny
Thanks so much for the comment! I’m really glad to hear that your daughters enjoyed the recipe! I hope you return to watch my valentine’s day baking videos 🙂
Norawee
“Please give me s’more ioirnmatfon about you!” They look delicious and I’m going to have to hide them from my husband! (or make another batch for home!)
SelfMade
I’ve made these a few times now, and they aylaws get rave reviews. I’ve renamed them “Amazing Cookies”, because they’re so damn good.
ShnuggleBunny
I’m so glad you enjoyed them 🙂
Levitra
Great blog! How can I subscribe to it?
kocioł
Can i copy half of your article on my blog?I’ll link to it.
ShnuggleBunny
Sure, that would be great! Link me to your blog when you’re done 🙂
Cialis
Thanx for sharing your tips here. I really appraise it.
Ashwini
Hey I loved this cookies it does tastes great n looks awesome. I baked it for this Christmas made it in red and green 🙂 loved it thanks for the recipe.