Katie's Pinwheel Cookies
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 egg, separated
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 30 wooden popsticks
- 1 cup colored sugar, one or several colors
- 30 candy coated chocolate candies
- With a paddle attachment, beat butter, cream cheese, and egg yolk until smooth.
- Stir in flour and baking powder.
- Mix until stiff dough forms.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Lightly beat egg white and set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- On lightly floured surface, roll dough, 1/2 at a time, into a 15 by 9-inch rectangle.
- With sharp knife, cut dough into 3-inch squares.
- Place 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
- Brush with egg white.
- Lightly press about 1 1/2 inches of wooden stick into bottom center of each dough square.
- With sharp knife, cut the dough diagonally from each corner to within 1/2-inch of center of each square.
- Sprinkle about 1 teaspoon colored sugar over each square.
- Fold alternate corners of the square to the center to form pinwheel, overlapping the dough at the center pushing down gently to seal in center.
- Press one candy coated chocolate in center of each pinwheel.
- Bake until set, about 9 to 12 minutes.
- Using spatula, immediately remove from cookie sheets.
butter, cream cheese, egg, flour, baking powder, popsticks, colored sugar, chocolate candies
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/katies-pinwheel-cookies-recipe.html (may not work)