Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Divide Basic Butter Cookie Dough in half. Knead melted unsweetened chocolate into 1 portion until well blended. Roll each portion ...

Filling: Combine dates, sugar and water. Cook over low heat until thick. Add nuts and cool. Dough: Cream butter. Add brown sugar and eggs. Beat well. Add remaining ingredients and beat. Chill dough ...

Peppermint pinwheel cookies are simple, festive and easy to make. If you’re still looking for holiday cookie ideas, check out these pinwheels from Shauna Cruz of Vallejo, a finalist one year in our ...

Here’s a cookie that looks like it took hours, but isn’t a big deal. When you have two different kinds of dough, you can be creative: slice stacked strips for striped cookies, stagger the stacks for ...

These delicious seasonal cookies came out beautifully laminated, almost like a pastry. The key is to keep the dough cold the entire time you are working with it! And while they are easy enough to make ...

Pinwheel cookies made with another kind of filling, but you get the idea. (Washington Post photo) David B. would love to find a recipe for a cookie that his grandmother made when he was growing up. It ...

Timing is the key ingredient to getting perfect pinwheel patterns with this recipe. Wait too long and the chocolate breaks when sliced. Don't wait long enough and the the pattern will be distorted.

"Once you finish eating one, you’re immediately going to want another!" the consulting pastry chef at Old John’s Diner in New York City says about her soft, buttery and "hypnotic looking" sugar ...

Shauna Cruz of Vallejo, Calif., was one of the 10 winners of our first Los Angeles Times Holiday Cookie Bake-Off with these peppermint pinwheels: “Four years ago, my roommates and I started the ...