Cherry Spiral Cookies

Submitted by Sam 3

"An interesting twist to boring cookies! Taken from a Mom and Me Cookbook."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 36

ingredients

• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• red food coloring
• 1⁄2 maraschino cherry, chopped

directions

1. Beat butter and sugar together in a bowl.
2. Add yolk and vanilla and beat mixture until smooth.
3. Add flour and salt and mix to form a smooth dough.
4. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
5. Preheat to 350°F.
6. Color 1/2 of the dough with red food coloring.
7. Add cheeries to pink dough.
8. Wrap and chill for another 10 minutes.
9. Roll dough out to 1/4in thickness.
10. Place pink dough on top of plain dough.
11. Trim edges and roll into a log starting from a long side.
12. Slice log into 1/4in slices.
13. Arrange on cookie sheet.
14. Bake 15 minutes.

Reviews

[Kitzy]

These are very tasty and pretty too. Unfortunately my rolling went a little awry so the there's less swirl and more splodge ;-). I halved the recipe but still used a whole egg yolk. The mixture seemed really dry so I added the white as well which sorted out the consistency. Thanks!

 

[bullwinkle]

Made these for a Easter Tea party I had with my two granddaughters. The pink swirl made a pretty butter cookie. They went very nice with our tea. Thanks Sam#3. Bullwinkle.