LOLLIPOP SWIRL COOKIES

These are so simple and a great project for your little ones to help make. They can knead the color into the cookie dough and you’ll bring their artistic side out for the holidays ahead!

Purchase refrigerator sugar cookie dough. If you’d like to make your own you can find a great recipe in the Good Things Utah Cookbook, Volume 1, on page 117.

Separate dough into equal sections and color as you wish. Today’s demonstration uses green and red for Christmas. Try orange and black for Halloween or use any combination that fits for your special occasion.

Once color is kneaded into your two batches of dough, roll each color between two pieces of wax paper making sure to flour bottom sheet lightly and sprinkle flour on top of dough so it doesn’t stick to the top sheet. Use a rolling pin to roll dough out into a square (dimensions depend on amount of dough). Make sure both pieces are approximately the same side. Refrigerate both pieces while still between wax paper for about 15 minutes.

Carefully stack each piece of dough on top of each other, removing appropriate pieces of wax paper. Roll both pieces together until you have a cookie "log". Using dental floss slice your log into cookie swirls about ¼ inch thick. Press lightly to shape into a circle.

Place one Popsicle stick on cookie sheet and press one cookie swirl on top (make sure that the stick goes at least half way towards the middle of your cookie). Bake as per instructions or at 350 degrees for about 12-15 minutes. Let cool for one minute and remove your Lollipop Swirl Cookies from pan!

Kids love to decorate these with sugar sprinkles or candies. They make great party handouts. You can frost them too! Make a cookie swirl bouquet and tie a tiny ribbon into a bow on the stick for an extra festive touch!