Holden and I were invited to a Holiday Cookie Swap tomorrow, which sounded like tons of fun… until I realized I had to make cookies in advance in order to have something to swap. Duh.

I actually love to bake cookies—my mom and I have our own little Christmas cookie sweatshop every year the weekend before Christmas. But I wasn’t entirely prepared to have cookies ready for this party. So I decided to a cheat a little and get some help from Betty Crocker.

Now, because I don’t want it to actually look like I just made some cookies from a box (well, pouch), I remembered a Pin I saw not too long ago.

If you’ll recall, me and rainbow-colored baked goods don’t always get along, so I figured, at the very least I’d have a fun Pinterest Fail to share with ya’ll. Instead I’m calling this a quasi-win.

The recipe for the Rainbow Pinwheel Cookies comes from Souders Cookery.

Dr. Suess Cookies

2013-12-07 19:54:15

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Prep Time

45 min

Cook Time

11 min

Prep Time

45 min

Cook Time

11 min

Ingredients

1 17.5-oz. bag Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix

Liquid food coloring (McCormick Neon shades work well)

Rainbow sprinkles

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Mix cookie dough according to instructions.

Divide dough evenly into five bowls, and color each with a different color liquid food coloring.

Roll each color of dough into grape-sized balls.

Combine a ball of each color and quickly roll into a larger ball. It will look like a little beach ball.

Then roll that ball between your hands and the counter until you have a cylinder about 12 inches long.

Starting from one end, roll the dough into a coil, twisting the cylinder as you go (this is tough to do).

Roll edges of the cookie in sprinkles.

Bake the cookies for 10 to 11 minutes, or until done.

Notes

Original recipe said this yields 3 dozen cookies. I think 1.5 dozen is a more accurate count (though I could have just made mine way too big).

By Shelly Ruybalid

Adapted from Souders Cookery

Adapted from Souders Cookery

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The best way to really mix the food coloring into the dough is… with your hands. I threw on a pair of disposable gloves (which I own for reasons involving my dog that you don’t want to hear about) and went to town:

The balls really do look like little beach balls once you combine the five different colored grape-sized balls. Wrapping the cylinder into a coiled cookie whilst twisting it is not an easy thing to do.

Because my cookies are nowhere near as airy and perky-looking as the recipe photo I’m calling this a Pinterest Win-ish. I’m wondering if I should have followed the box instructions for drop cookies as opposed to cut-out cookies. The neon colors still make them look pretty cool though. The end result:

Also, this recipe says you’ll get three (3) dozen cookies out of it. Unless I made my cookies waaaay too big (which is a possibility), I’d say 1.5 dozen is more realistic. I actually got 15 cookies out of this recipe… which is not enough for the Swap tomorrow, so I’ll be making my gingerbread men (also out of a box) to supplement.

And while we’re truth-telling, these cookies are pretty time-consuming, what with the splitting of the dough into five different colors and rolling grape-size balls and coils and cylinders and whatnot. So I didn’t actually do myself any favors by cheating. But they look pretty, so oh well!