Make these super festive Patriotic Pinwheel Cookies for your Memorial Day or 4th of July picnic and your guests will be super impressed! You can also change them up for all sorts of holidays, parties, and special occasions.
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I have a fun recipe today you can make with your kids that I hope you will enjoy immensely, both now, and as a memory in the future!
These Patriotic Pinwheel Cookies are perfect for summer - from Labor Day to Memorial Day, and definitely Independence Day, these just scream out SUMMER!
However, keep in mind that these pinwheel sugar cookies can be made with lots of different colors so they're great for birthday parties, baby showers (pink and blue for a gender reveal?), graduation parties, tie dye parties, and more! For Christmas time, use green instead of blue, or use pink, red, and white for Valentine's Day. The combinations are nearly endless.
🧂 Ingredients
- flour
- baking powder
- salt
- unsalted butter
- granulated sugar
- eggs
- red and blue gel food coloring
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🍴 Serving Suggestions
If you want to make these sugar pinwheel cookies extra special, grab some vanilla ice cream and make ice cream cookie sandwiches.
Place a scoop of ice cream on one of the cookies, then gently press a second cookie down on top. Wrap in parchment paper and freeze for an hour before serving. Enjoy!
⏲️ Storage
These cookies will store well at room temperature in an airtight container for about 5 days.
You can make this dough ahead of time and freeze it also. Roll the dough into a log and place it on parchment paper. Twist the ends shut. Place the log into a labels freezer bag. Freeze for up to 3 months. Remove from the fridge, slice the cookies, and bake!
More Patriotic Ideas
- Patriotic Banner {Free Printable}
- Easy DIY USA Canvas
- Free Printable Patriotic Cupcake Toppers
- Patriotic Wind Chime Craft
- 12 Patriotic Crafts
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Red White and Blue Pinwheel Cookies
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Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1½ cup soft unsalted butter
- 2 cup granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- red gel food coloring
- blue gel food coloring
Instructions
- Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.1½ cup soft unsalted butter, 2 cup granulated sugar
- Add all 4 eggs at one time and then add the vanilla. Mix to combine.4 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.5 cup flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt
- Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
- Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
- Divide your batter into thirds and place into separate bowls.
- In bowl #1 add red gel food coloring. Using your hands to knead the dough to make sure the color is even throughout.red gel food coloring
- In bowl#2 add the blue gel food coloring. Using your hands to knead the dough to make sure the color is even throughout.blue gel food coloring
- In bowl #3 the color remains as it is.
- Remove each of the balls of colored dough from their bowls and wrap tightly in plastic wrap.
- Place in the refrigerator for at least one hour or over night.
- Flour 3 cutting boards and rolling pin.
- Taking your red chilled dough and cover it with flour. Using your rolling pin flatten (roll) out that dough. Leave on that cutting board.
- Repeat with the blue and white dough balls.
- Using a metal spatula, to lift up the white rolled out dough and place it on top of the red dough. Then place the blue dough on top of that.
- Gently press down with the rolling pin to compress the three sheets of dough.
- Tightly roll the combined chilled dough into one log.
- Wrap this log with plastic wrap closing both ends.
- Place in your freezer for about one hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Take out of your freezer and remove the plastic wrap, cutting the dough into 2 inch pieces, keeping the shape of a circle.
- Place the cut slices on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
- Bake at the 350 degrees for 18- 20 more minutes or until they are slightly brown on the edges
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With the 4th of July right around the corner, everything is coming up red, white, and blue. Since becoming a mother, the 4th of July has become my favorite holiday. I love spending time with family, watching the delight on my children's' faces as they watch the fireworks. It's just magical.
For the last several years, we've been out on Brandy Pond or Long Lake up in Maine where my parents moor their boat. I love that we're creating wonderfully rich memories for my children with their grandparents - the warmth of which will hopefully live on after they're sometimes gone.
I remember my own childhood and summer in Maine with my grandparents so fondly. Even though those days are long gone, the emotion of it all is sometimes too much - in fact as a write now tears are stringing my eyes. But it is not with a heavy heart that I write this - in fact I am so grateful and and full of joy for those precious memories.
From loud cookouts with cousins running all over the place to quiet afternoons on the porch playing cards with my grandmother, these are moments in time I treasure. If I close my eyes and sit still, I can feel the love, and see so clearly in my mind's eye anyone of those moments as if it were a movie playing. I realize now with my own children that these moments have somewhat shaped the way I approach motherhood. Jesh I'm sappy today, huh?
Keri says
I'm right there with you. My childhood was filled with cookouts with cousins! We always did big family get-togethers for Christmas and July 4th. Now that I'm a mom, I don't really have that same closeness because we all live so far apart. When we do get together, I try to do special things to make it memorable.
Danielle says
I've always been a bit intimidated by pinwheel cookies - but you make it sound so easy I may have to give it a try!
Beverly says
These pin wheel cookies are perfect for the 4th. Yummy!
Bev