Recipe: Holiday Pinwheel Refrigerator Cookies in Chocolate and Vanilla

 This is a variation of the previous Pinwheel Cookie entry.  These are made in vanilla and chocolate and sprinkled with red and green sugar for Christmas.  I made the recipe as shown and after removing half of the dough, I added the unsweetened chocolate to the remaining batter.  

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(printable recipe)

Ingredients:

1/2 cup shortening
1 cups granulated sugar
2 eggs, well-beaten
2 tsps. vanilla extract
1 tbsp. milk
3 cups sifted all purpose flour
2 tsps. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt

Directions:

Work shortening with a spoon until fluffy and creamy.  (I suggest a stand mixer!) Add sugar gradually, while continuing to work with a spoon until light. Add well-beaten eggs, vanilla and milk, and mix thoroughly. Sift together the dry ingredients and gradually add, beating after each addition.
If desired, divide dough in half and tint each half a different color- red and green for Christmas works well. Roll or pat one color dough on wax paper without flour, (I use plastic wrap or parchment paper and a rolling pin) into a rectangular sheet 10"x13". Do the same with the other color and flip on top of first rectangle.
Peeling off wax paper, roll up jelly roll fashion from 13" side, and chill for several hours or overnight in the refrigerator. Slice crosswise and bake in moderately hot oven of 375'F for about 10 mins. on a greased cookie sheet.

Variation: Make half of the vanilla refrigerator cookie recipe, adding 1 square unsweetened chocolate, melted, to the egg mixture. Tint the other half another color i.e. orange for Halloween, or leave vanilla.  
Note: If desired, this cookie dough may be wrapped in waxed paper and plastic or foil, stored in the refrigerator for a week or more, and then sliced and baked as needed. Cookies may be frozen.

Number Of Servings: Makes about 4 dozen cookies.

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