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Pinwheel Icebox Cookies Ingredients

1. 1 cup brown sugar
2. 1 1/2 cup white sugar
3. 1 cup butter
4. 3 eggs
5. 4 cups flour
6. 1 tsp. salt
7. 2 tsp. baking soda
8. 1 1/2 cup ground raisins
9. 1/2 cup water
10. 1 cup nuts

Preparing Pinwheel Icebox Cookies Ingredients

• Cream brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar and butter; add eggs and mix well. Add sifted flour, salt and baking soda; stir until smooth.
• Chill.
• Combine remaining ingredients and cook until thick.
• Add nuts.
• Allow to cool.
• Divide dough; roll out 1/2-inch thick. Spread filling over dough. Roll in rolls.
• Refrigerate overnight.
• Slice thin.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.

Yield: 5-6 dozen.

Helpful Baking Tip: When slicing cookies you always want to use your sharpest knife. Every so often, give your dough a turn so your cookies don’t start flattening on one side.

Did You Know?

Raisins were discovered quite by accident. In 1873, a freak hot spell withered all the grapes on the vine in California. An enterprising grocer decided to advertise those shriveled grapes as “Peruvian Delicacies.” They took off and now California is the world’s leading producer of raisins.