November X-Mas Spiral Slice and Bake Cookies

November X-Mas Spiral Slice and Bake Cookies

Per the request of my nephew, I made Christmas cookies. I adapted this recipe from Alton Brown's sugar cookie recipe. Essentially doing what I want.

Ingredients

1 stick butter
1 stick margarine
1 cup white sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
5.3 oz Greek yogurt (single serve Chobani in vanilla or cookies and cream) and a spatula is very helpful in getting all of the yogurt out.
3 1/4 c. flour
1/2 tsp peppermint extract
About 1/2 cup chocolate chunks
The jimmie section of the sprinkle shaker (Skip the nonpareils. Nonpareils are typically coated in coloring. This leaves little white nonpareils and colorful stains in your dough like the cookies pictured. Not strictly a bad thing. Just a consideration.)
1 extra egg beaten in a cup
Powdered sugar for rolling out the cookie dough

Instructions

1. Beat the butter and sugar (by hand, by mixer, by beater)
2. Beat in the egg
3. Beat in the yogurt
4. Add baking powder and salt
5. Add the flour
6. Split the dough into two bowls.

Pause briefly to contemplate how nephew is going to be disappointed that you made the wrong cookies.

7. Melt the chocolate in the microwave about 10 seconds at a time. Stir after each go in the microwave. It will melt far faster than you expect.
8. Add melted chocolate to 1/2 of cookie dough
9. Add peppermint and sprinkles to other half of dough.
10. Wrap everything in parchment paper. Put in fridge.
11. Go to bed.
12. Get the doughs out of the fridge.

Suspect you put too many sprinkles in the dough.

13. Roll out the dough evenly. If the chocolate dough is too set to roll out, microwave it for 10 or 20 seconds to soften. Or just let it sit out.
14. Paint both slabs with the extra egg. Preferably with a brush but if you don't have a brush, use your fingers.
15. Put the chocolate dough on the peppermint dough (egg to egg) and press the edges together.

Realize you should have tried to get it more rectangular but resolve to make it work.

16. Paint more egg on the cookie dough slab.
17. Roll up.

The ends are going to likely be a mess unless you rolled a rectangle. In which case, congratulations. Alternatively, cut off the sticky out end and shove that into the other end. They won't look pretty but they'll taste fab.

18. Fridge.
19. Slice.
20. Lay out on an ungreased cookie sheet.
21. Bake 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges just start to golden.
22. Eat (after they are no longer mouth burning hot).