Our pinwheels have chocolate outsides

White cookie dough is much harder to handle than chocolate dough.  Its looser consistency makes it difficult to smooth out, flip and control, and therefore it isn't easy to lift it into position to marry with the chocolate base layer.

But that's what you have to do to achieve the preferred handsome dark edge.

So remember, Christmas cookie fans, whenever you sample a yummy pinwheel with the chocolate on the outside edge, please know that you're eating an icebox cookie baked by an expert.

We proudly present this year's batch:

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(Yes, those are Russian tea cakes in the background.)