Every holiday season I love to bake a variety of cookies to give as gifts to friends and family. Baking is what you'd call my love language. Certain cookies are on repeat every year, e.g., walnut snowballs and chocolate crinkles, because they are holiday classics and always delicious.
This year the time frame between Thanksgiving and Christmas was so short, compared to years past, that I searched for recipes that could be made well in advance. No point slaving away in the kitchen all at once when I could spread the work out, right?
I was inspired to make these Pinwheel Icebox Cookies when I saw a picture of similar cookies on Baked By Rachel's Instagram account. Cook's Illustrated has a great recipe for vanilla icebox cookies which I adapted slightly. Trust me, it wasn't as complicated as it might sound. I basically just took half the dough and colored it red, then I layered the two colors and rolled them up in to a long log. A final roll in some red and green nonpareils was all that was needed. A chill in the fridge and then just slice and bake. As Ina Garten would say, "how easy is that?"
