Halloween Spiral Slice and Bake Cookies

By srumbel

These Halloween Spiral Slice and Bake Cookies are the perfect, easy treat for your Halloween celebrations! Spiral cookies are always a lot of fun and they are super easy to adapt to various holidays and celebrations. All you have to do is change the color of sugar you use! I’ve made rainbow pinwheel cookies and red, white and blue sparkler cookies for the 4th of July and both were huge hits.
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Ingredients

• 1 cup Challenge butter softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 tsp almond or vanilla extract
• 1 egg, room temperature
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• colored sugar (I used orange, black and red)

Preparation

Step 1

Cream butter and sugar together.
Add egg and extract and mix until well combined.
Stir in flour, mixing until fully incorporated.
Divide dough in half.
Cover cutting board with plastic wrap and press out half of dough into an 8x8 square.
Sprinkle sugars onto the dough in patches.
Use the plastic wrap to to lift and roll up dough - just like sushi.
Repeat with second half and refrigerate dough rolls for 1-2 hours or until nice and firm.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
Remove plastic wrap from rolls and cut into 1/4 inch slices.
Place slices about 2 inches apart on cookie sheet.
Bake for 6-8 minutes or until edges just turn golden. Let cool for 1-2 minutes and remove to wire rack.