Christmas Swirl Sugar Cookies
I like to bake, well….let’s be honest, mostly I like to eat things that other people bake! It isn’t so much the baking as much as it is the cleaning up afterwards. You know what I mean? I don’t like dishes very much, but I suppose sometimes it is worth doing the dishes in order to bake up something yummy. These Christmas Swirl Sugar cookies were definitely worth the dishes! My sister and I ate practically the entire batch ourselves. I had big plans to share with others, those plans really didn’t work out!! LOL! The cookies look fancy right! But they are super easy, I like things that look like I am amazing but are actually super simple! Makes me look good! {wink}
Just use your traditional sugar cookie recipe, pick your favorite, nothing fancy. Whip up the dough and then divide it into even sections. I divided mine into three sections since I wanted my cookies to have three colors.
Then put each section of cookie dough in it’s own bowl. Make a little volcano on the top of the ball of dough and squirt in plenty of food coloring.
Now, don’t be shy, dig your hands in and work that food coloring through the dough.
Add more if you need, I added a lot since I wanted my colors really vibrant 🙂
Don’t worry about food coloring on your hands. Mine looked stained after I was done but then it washed right off. I think it must be all the butter in the cookie recipe. So butter is good for more than just making things taste yummy!! Who knew?!
Get some wax paper and tear off a good size piece. Mine was probably 18 inches long.
Roll each ball of dough out pretty flat and as even as you can. Each ball of dough will need it’s own piece of wax paper.
When all your dough is rolled out flat, even and approximately the same size. Decide what color order you want your cookies layered and place one color right over the top of another using the wax paper to transport your dough. You might want to grab your hubby or child for this part. You can do it with 2 hands, but 4 is definitely easier 🙂
Once all your dough is stacked on top of each other grab a pizza cutter and trim the edges so all the sides are even.
Your stack’o’dough will still be on a piece of wax paper. Turn the dough so the long side is facing you and roll it up. Then roll the wax paper over the top to cover it. Make sure to fold the ends over. The wax paper keeps your dough from drying out.
Put your roll’o’dough into the fridge until it is hard. Once it is hard, you can take it out, unroll the wax paper and using a straight edge knife cut the dough off in slices.
These are your cookies! You can roll the edges in sprinkles if you want, totally optional but super cute!
Place them in the oven on a baking sheet and bake them according to your sugar cookies’ recipe.
There you have it, easy peasy lemon squeezy!!
I hope you enjoyed this recipe! What is your favorite Holiday Cookie Recipe?
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When my kids were little I made a chocolate and vanilla pin shell coolie, I would bet that would work for these, just leave out chocolate and divide the same way, go look up recipe for good pin wheel cookie, . I have great grandchildren, so you’ll find recipes in older cookbooks if not in new ones, I am goin to make some for neighbors.
Where’s the actual RECIPE?
I don’t have a good sugar cookie recipe. Would you mind sharing your recipe for this swirl cookie? Thanks!
Hi!! We used a basic sugar cookie recipe and it was super crumbly and ended up as a bit of failure lol. Could you share the recipe you use?
These were so yummy. I made them for a class I teach. I also blogged about the ones I made. The Blog post will be up Monday at jandbnash.blogspot.com. Just wanted to give you credit. Thanks for the great idea.
Jamie that is awesome! I am so glad you made them and let me know that it turned out well! I will definitely check out your post, thanks for sharing my link!
So I did try these! Little bit of a fail, haha! The dough kept sticking to my roller and I couldn’t get a nice semi-rectangle. Also, when I tried to roll them up the dough stuck a little to the wax paper so the result was not a beautifully swirled cookie but a weirdly swirled odd shaped cookie. But the kids didn’t care and thought they were awesome! Maybe my sugar cookie recipe is not so good or I should have added more flour….who knows!
Ugh! That is too bad! I didn’t have either of those problems! I wonder what sugar cookie recipe you have, we should compare.
I want to make these with my kids! How much food coloring should I buy, just one bottle of each color?
One bottle should be more than enough. It did take a lot of food coloring because I wanted mine really brightly colored, but I know it didn’t use the whole bottle. Have fun! Want to see how they turned out, my girls had a lot of fun helping with these.
Delicious and beautiful! What more could you want in food!
Um….you could want your sister to just come and make them for you, which is pretty much exactly what happened here! Love ya sis!
Ooh these were so yummy! Good thing you save some for me!
Brooke if you come and visit I will ALWAYS save some cookies for you!