Swirled Pumpkin Cookies Recipe
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Serves: 2 dozen
 
A swirled fall like sugar cookie recipe great for kids to help make!
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Land O Lakes® Butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 large Land O Lakes® Egg
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • Red, orange and yellow gel food colors
Instructions
  1. Combine butter and sugar in bowl; beat at medium speed until creamy. Add egg, milk and vanilla extract; continue beating until well mixed. Add flour and baking powder; beat at low speed until well mixed.
  2. Divide dough into thirds; place each portion into separate bowls. Add very small amount of red gel food color to 1 portion; mix well. Add additional red gel for desired color, if necessary. Repeat with remaining dough portions and gel food colors.
  3. Shape each dough into ball; flatten each ball to ½-inch thickness. Wrap each in plastic food wrap; refrigerate 2-3 hours or until firm.
  4. Heat oven to 400°F.
  5. Working with half of each dough color (keeping remaining dough refrigerated), drop tablespoon-size pieces of dough from each color onto well-floured surface in random pattern with dough pieces touching. Roll out dough to ¼- to ⅛-inch thickness, forming marbled design. Cut with 3-inch pumpkin cookie cutters
  6. Place cookies, 1 inch apart, onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 7-9 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to cooling rack.
Recipe by the About What blog at http://theaboutwhatblog.com/swirled-pumpkin-cookies-recipe/