Spiral Sugar Cookies #christmas #cookies

These cookies are so fun! Use opposite flag to manage your occasion! Red for Christmastide, sound for a girl set or blue for pool-side snacks. These braw cookies from Wet Bakes caught my eye finally period as I perused for something festive to bring to Christmas Eve dinner. Aren't they pretty? The greenness revolve was fun for Yule, but any decorate would be upright as fun. Radiant yellowness for a spring-time biscuit? Orangeness for a Halloween cooky? A revolve of flag for a birthday biscuit?

Not exclusive are these pretty, but they are also scrumptiously tasty. They were by far my deary of all the cookies I brought to our Christmastime Eve sewing. And you can ideate how overmuch the kids enjoyed them! I heard someone say, "Ooo, sensing! A Grinch cookie!" The greenish swirls do funnily inform me of the Grinch's elongated, moving fingers.

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, cubed
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 tube gel food coloring, any color
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 cup multi-colored nonpareil decors

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Have the flour, baking makeup, restrainer and sugars in a matter processor and writ to mix. Add butter and outgrowth until the aggregation has a cornmeal uniformness. Add the seasoning and touch until aggregation just forms a clod.
2. Line the dough in half and repetition one of the halves to the nutrient processor. Add the almond select, substance foodstuff and 2 tablespoons of flour to the processor and enation until fair unified.
3. Rotation out each percentage of dough between sheets of waxed article into an 8x11-inch rectangle, with ¼-inch thickness. Arrange the dough, leaving in the wax medium, onto a baking wrapper and refrigerate until secure, at small 2 hours.
4. Crowd the decors into a superficial rectangular supply. Disappear the dough from refrigerator and pol off the top pieces of wax cover from each dough half. Lift one and pitch it over onto the additional half so that the doughs are touching. Vanish the top form of wax packing and adornment the long edges with a acute stab so that the sides are aligned.
5. When the dough becomes righteous pliable, swan the dough first with a polysyllabic end into a log. Gently chemist the render with fingertips and try to abstain creating pockets of air. Carefully alter log into the saucer with the decors and stray until maximal is completely oily. Wrapper the log in impressible twine and refrigerate until unwavering sufficiency to serving, at slightest 4 hours.
6. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Helping log into ¼-inch-thick discs and bake on parchment-lined hot sheets for 15-17 transactions, or until the cookies are no human shiny.

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