Christmas Pinwheels

By Tonya_Speed

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup raspberry jam

Details

Servings 4
Adapted from savingdinner.com

Preparation

Step 1

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together until fluffy. Stir in eggs and vanilla extract. Stir until well blended.
In a separate bowl, stir together dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and salt). Add dry ingredients to moist ingredients and stir until all is incorporated.
Cover bowl and chill for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Roll one third of dough out into a 10 inch square on lightly floured surface. Cut dough into 2 1/2 inch squares. Next cut each square diagonally from each corner to almost the center of cookie. (Each square will now look like 4 triangles attached at their center points.)
Carefully take the bottom left corner of one triangle and fold it into the center. Continue in a clockwise motion, folding in the left corner of each triangle to the center, forming a pinwheel.
In the center of your “pinwheel”, place 1/2 teaspoon of jam. Place pinwheels on cookie sheet and bake for 6 minutes or until lightly browned. Repeat process for the remaining two-thirds of dough.