I know St Patrick’s Day is still a few days off but given my strong Irish heritage I’ve decided to turn this whole week into a massive green celebration. I’m a sucker for sugar cookies and would have loved to create some awesome decorated St Patrick’s Day cookies but I unfortunately don’t have the time this week. These cookies on the other hand are much easier to put together and still look great at the same time. I found the recipe for these on this cute little website. I had planned on flavouring the green portion with peppermint essence but unfortunately I only had time to go to the little grocery store up the road and they had almost every flavour except mint. They taste great anyway but can’t wait to try these again with the peppermint flavour.

Green Spiral Cookies (Makes approx 25 cookies)

Ingredients

150 g butter, softened

½ cup packed brown sugar

¼ cup castor sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 cups plain flour

½ tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

¼ tsp baking soda

2 tb cocoa powder

Green food colouring

Method

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture. Divide dough in half. Tint one portion green. Stir cocoa into other portion. Wrap each portion in plastic wrap; chill for one hour.

For spiral cookies, roll out each portion between waxed paper into a 22.5 x 15 cm (9 x 6 inch) rectangle. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Repeat for remaining portions. Remove waxed paper; place one green rectangle over a chocolate rectangle and trim if necessary. Roll up tightly jelly-roll style, starting with the long side. Wrap in plastic and chill for two hours.

Preheat oven to 190°C (375°F) and line baking tray with non stick baking paper. Unwrap and cut spiral doughs into 1 cm slices. Place one inch apart on prepared trays. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Nutritional Information (Per cookie)

Energy: 478 kJ (114 Cal)

Protein: 1.6 g

Fat: 5.4 g

Saturated Fat: 3.4 g

Carbohydrate: 14.9 g

Sugars: 6.7 g

Sodium: 75 mg

Dietary Fibre: 0.5 g

Baking, Cookies

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March 15, 2011

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