Patriotic Cookies
This weeks unplugged theme is Flag. Molly and I racked our brains but couldn’t come up with anything. The only thing we could think of were flag cookies-well really Red, White and Blue Pinwheel Cookies!
Beware-if you like to eat raw cookie dough and you actually want to have baked cookies to eat-then don’t even try a smidgen of this dough. It’s that good!
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cream butter, gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla and beat well. Add dry ingredients a small amount at a time, mixing well after each addition. Divide dough onto 3 equal portions. Add several drops of red food coloring to one portion and beat well to color dough. Do the same with a second portion using blue food coloring. Leave one portion uncolored.
Roll each portion separately between 2 sheets of wax paper to aprox 12 x 18 inch rectangles. (good luck with this part!)
Peel wax paper off top of the red dough and white dough. Invert the white on to the red.
Now the blue dough on the top. And roll all three colors together into a log.
Wrap in wax paper and chill in fridge for 3 hours or freezer for 1 hour.
Slice dough into 1/4 inch round pieces and bake in 375 oven for about 10 mins.
Depending on how much dough you eat-you should have aprox 4 doz cookies to bring to tomorrows Patriotic Potluck!
If you are want to participate in my weekly Thursday Quarter Recipe Theme be sure to post your All American recipe on Thursday!!
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