Valentines spiral cookies

I was a bit sceptical on how these would turn out as I found various recipes but the method was always the same.  Anyway, after cooking the first batch a little too long I watched the second ones like a hawk and they turned out perfect. Although I could have done with putting more sprinkles on. It makes around 24

The ingredients can be fiddled around with to be different flavours/colours/sprinkles but the method would always be the same

INGREDIENTS

2 cups self raising flour + 1 table spoon
1/2 tea spoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup (4oz) sugar
1 egg (lightly beaten)
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon strawberry essence
red food colouring (I used my gel food colour)
sprinkles ( used pink glitter)

METHOD

(I don't know if this is right as I couldn't find a good recipe but it's what I did and it worked just fine)

Put the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a bowl. Mix in the butter (it will look like bread crumbs)

Add the egg and mix

Add the milk and combine with your hands into a dough

Divide the dough into two

Put one to one side and with the other mix in the food colouring, strawberry essence and 1 tablespoon of extra flour (this takes a while to make it change colour)

Then between 2 sheets of lightly floured greaseproof paper roll out one colour of dough to as close to a rectangle as you can around 1/2 cm thick

So the same with the other dough trying to make it the same size/shape as the other.

Put them both flat in the fridge for at least 2 hours

Take them out take the paper off one side of the red and paint it with water. Then try (it's not easy) to put the other dough on top

Then trim off the edges and roll it up into a tight spiral.

Then roll the dough into your chosen sprinkles (again, this isn't easy because it's quite long) and wrap it tightly in cling film and put it in the fridge for another 2 hours (I left mine over night)

Then pre heat oven to 180oC and prepare your baking trays with greaseproof paper 

Cut the log into 1 finger width (about 1cm) slices and place on the baking try. They spread to about 1/2 the size again so leave a gap

All the recipes I found said cook for 10 minutes but this browned them too much so the second batch I watched like a hawk and they cook perfectly (about 7 minutes)

Leave to cool and enjoy!

These are the ones that I cooked for 10 minutes. Also the spiral wasn't very tight at that end so as you can see they curled up a bit funny

Oh, and with all the left over cookie dough, I smushed them together cut out another 8 cookies. Not pretty like the others but still yummy