Holiday Cookies: Swirl Butter Cookies
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Recipe type: Dessert
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Ingredients
  • 2 cups flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ⅛ tsp salt
  • ⅔ cup powdered sugar
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • 2½ sticks butter, softened and cut into chunks
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 10 drops green food coloring
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Mix together flour, baking powder, salt, and sugars
  3. Soften butter and cut into chunks
  4. Gradually add butter chunks to dry mixture while mixing
  5. Add in vanilla
  6. Divide dough into two parts, set one on wax paper
  7. Add green food coloring to second batch of dough, mix well
  8. With wax paper on both sides of the dough, roll it out -- do this to both sets of dough
  9. Let the dough chill in the fridge for about 20-30 minutes
  10. Take off wax paper and put green dough on top of white
  11. Cut around the edges to make dough match up
  12. Using bottom piece of wax paper, roll the dough
  13. Chill the roll of dough for one hour
  14. Slice dough
  15. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes
Recipe by Seeing Sunshine at https://seeingsunshine.com/2013/12/02/holiday-cookies-swirl-butter-cookies/