Name: Shannon
My Blog: http://allthatshimmersisgold.blogspot.com/
Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/90494273735500846/
What I Did: Living abroad in Italy (and married to a U.S. soldier!) makes you love celebrating patriotic holidays. I figured the 4th of July was the perfect holiday to find some Pinterest-y dessert to share with fellow Americans. I followed this recipe exactly as specified… womp womppp.
My Result:
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Next Time I Will: These cookies sadly didn’t even taste good 
The dough was stickier than any sugar cookie recipe I’ve ever made before and there was clearly not going to be a positive outcome from the get-go. I’ll never make them again but if I WERE going to, I would have added wayyy more flour to make the dough easier to roll. Strike that: maybe if I ever get invited to a 1970s theme party, I’ll make these tie-dye cookies!
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Pinterest needs to come with a warning label that reads: “All bright-colored baked goods require GEL food coloring, not liquid and CHILL YOUR DOUGH.”
The amount of chilling required in the recipe is downright epic, and it’s not excessive. The original recipe does screw up by not specifying gel food coloring — I’m starting to think some cooking bloggers think gel is the only kind there is and have never used the little drip bottles.
Unless the ingredients are coming from a military commissary that imports them from the U.S., I’d also expect to have to tweak the flour proportions, as flour and butter don’t have identical properties internationally. (For some cooking, it’s close enough that you wouldn’t notice, but for a sugar cookie, it matters.
I’m also a little skeptical that the original recipe shows cooked cookies, as there’s no sign of any rise of browning. That should also be on the Pinterest warning label: “if baked goods contain leavening, but the photo shows no rise, as well as no browning, you’re probably looking at the raw version and the baked version ain’t so pretty!”
1. July - 8:34 amAttempted these a couple years back with very little success. I almost thing these must be painted after baking
2. July - 3:57 amYou know, I notice you didn’t use parchment paper.
I checked the recipe.
Are you suuuuure you followed the recipe exactly?
2. July - 12:14 pmI’ve actually made these with much success. I made 5th Em into captain America shields. My colors weren’t as vibrant but I try to go easy on the food coloring as it would require ALOT of gel coloring to get these colors. But as for the pinwheel itself it worked very well. You do have to chill the dough at every step and it is time consuming but it will work.i would try again with a better sugar cookie recipe, gel colors, and patience. 2 hrs to chill the initial dough then about 15 min to chill after rolling, and again after cutting g. If the dough is chilled and goes right into the oven it doesn’t spread as much and will hold its shape.
6. July - 7:56 amI’ve baked for so many years that I’m guilty of the “only dye is gel” assumption, and have totally screwed over friends by not specifying the difference in a recipe! And both the freezer and fridge are your friend when prepping cookies or frosting/assembling baked cakes.
12. July - 8:45 pm