Although not your typical pound cake, this version is nonetheless rich and creamy like the original. In order to add some tang and cream cheese and yogurt in place of butter, Nutella® is swirled into the dish. This adds a deep cocoa and nutty flavor. It has less sugar as well.
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen |
Ingredients
- ¾ cup butter, softened
- 3 ounces cream cheese
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- assorted colors of paste food coloring
- 24 lollipop sticks
Instructions
- In a bowl cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.
- In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir till soft dough forms. Divide dough into fourths. Tint each with a different food color. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Working with half of each color, shape dough into 3/4 inch balls and for each cookie place 1 pink, 1 green, 1 blue and 1 orange ball together to make 1 large ball. Shape into a 12 inch long roll (like a snake), starting at one end, coil roll to make a 2 3/4 inch round cookie. Place cookies 3 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Carefully insert lollipop sticks into bottoms of cookies.
- Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool and store in an airtight container.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 302 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 39 g |
| Cholesterol | 54 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Sodium | 198 mg |
| Sugars | 17 g |
| Fat | 15 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
My 2 and 5 year olds had so much fun with this. We only chilled for about 45 min due to the excitement (consistency was good for play but not perfection) and baked Wilton pop sticks even though they said they weren’t for the oven (reviews said others had done it too). I liked the not too sweet taste and the kids didn’t complain. I’m sure we will do these again and will use gel food color next time. I did find they took much longer than 8 min to bake but ours were on the large side.
I made these for my girl friends son bday a while back. Everyone loved them. I love baking but I can’t make cookies very well. Muffins, cupcakes, cakes, frostings.. just not cookies. But these I can. Mostly. I find that making a snake and then curling it warms the dough up too much and that makes the cookies spread flat instead of puff up, so it’s hard to determine when the cookie is actually finished cooking. I ended up just putting the dough on a parchment paper slice, flattening and rolling it out and using a cookie cutter. It doesn’t have that cute swirl pattern, but it tastes the same.
I made these for my girl friends son bday a while back. Everyone loved them. I love baking but I can’t make cookies very well. Muffins, cupcakes, cakes, frostings.. just not cookies. But these I can. Mostly. I find that making a snake and then curling it warms the dough up too much and that makes the cookies spread flat instead of puff up, so it’s hard to determine when the cookie is actually finished cooking. I ended up just putting the dough on a parchment paper slice, flattening and rolling it out and using a cookie cutter. It doesn’t have that cute swirl pattern, but it tastes the same.
texture was more like sticky slime dough than moldeable playdough
Loved them!!!
I’m giving it only 3 because of the sheer stickiness of the dough… refrigerated it for a day but still sooo sticky! But the kids loved the colours, so might end up making it again. I piled the coloured dough in layers before freezing. Then rolled it all together and divided into cookie balls. This really mixed the colours and made lovely swirls in each cookie. I might make again if I have a lot of time on my hands and feel arty, I guess.
It is Awsome made it for my class
We used LOTS of gel food color, made balls and squished them together for tie-dye looking cookies. Big hit with the kids.
Fun recipe to make and for the kids to eat 😀
Love these for the kids – especially a party.
Love this recipe!! My 7 yeard old and I tried them for her her party and she enjoyed making them along with me. They were truly a hit everyone couldnt believe they were cookies, because I set them up on the candy buffet in a vase. The one thing i did do different was add a little lemon astract with the vanilla, and sprinked sugar on the dough before baking for a better taste.
Amazing when baked. Shapes stay true to original. Tasty and not too sweet. Highly addictive!
Doubled the recipe & followed it exactly. I set my timer for 8 min per batch & I’m glad I did…they don’t look done, but they are. I had a problem with my dough cracking a lot, so I only did about a dozen rolled “lollipops” before I gave up, marbled all of my dough, and cut out easter egg cookies & put them on sticks. I got a total of 45 cookies after I doubled the batch.
Not my favorite, but I gave it four stars because the kids had a blast making them! We will be making them again.
Made button cookies and they turned out soo cute! =] plus everyone loved them! =]
Just made these and loved them! I can’t comment on taste yet as they just came out of the oven, but the process of making them was super easy and the results well worth the effort. A couple of ‘tips’: I used food coloring and thought that the colors were just as vibrant as food paste and it was easy to mix in. After the dough chilled for 2 hrs, I rolled out each individual color into the little balls so I had the same number of each. (I ended up with 18 instead of the 24 originally called for) I then stuck them in the freezer while in the process of rolling them out, pulling out just one of each color at a time. I didn’t have any problem with them being too sticky. My ‘rope’ was much longer than 12 inches, probably closer to 18. And I found it helpful not to wrap it around to form the coil, but to start on one end and actually roll it up onto itself all the way to the other end – so the spiral was standing up, not laying flat. I will definitely be making these again in different colors for different celebrations. My four and two year old are thrilled with them!
Made these in the shape of rainbows for my neices birthday party. VERY time consuming…but they are adorable. This is not a sweet cookie and it’s almost cakelike. I added clear sugar crystals to sweeten them up a little.
Cute, very cute! I am not sure if I did something wrong but they did not taste that great. My sister took a bite and handed it back and said it was “not worth the calories” and a 6 year old took a bite and said “I don’t like this” my 4 year old and 2 year old scarfed them down though 🙂 I would give them 5 stars for creativity and fun in the kitchen with my 4 year old. We made heart shaped for V-Day. CUTE look, taste not so great..
These cookies are so good. The only change I made was to add 1/2 tsp. almond extract. They do taste like a spritz cookie. I am sending them to my grandchildren.
If you’re looking for standout VISUAL appeal, these cookies are WORTH IT. If you’re simply looking for a yummy cookie, I’d pass these up. That being said, these DO taste good! However, they’re just not worth the work if presentation isn’t a motivating factor. Even though I refrigerated the dough overnight (and kept the dough balls in the frig between batches), I had issues w/the dough. When I attempted to roll the balls into a “snake”, things got, well, sticky! I couldn’t keep the dough from sticking to my hands (10X sugar would have helped, but I didn’t want to dull my vibrant colors). I attempted to roll one out on a cutting board, but that worked worse than rolling between my hands. I baked my first 6 without lollipop sticks, as I wan’t sure they were going to work (and they looked great as plain cookies, too). When I discovered they did work (I was wary of too much spreading), I added a lollipop stick to the final 12. My yield was only 18 cookies and I couldn’t have made them any smaller and had them not look silly on the sticks (and I, actually, would have liked them to be bigger). One thing I really DO like about this recipe is the cookie edges don’t brown, so they look super vibrant. All in all, I will make them again if presentation is a priority. THANKS for the recipe, Terri!
These were more difficult to make than I thought. My dough ended up kind of mishapen/lumpy looking. I suppose if I spent way more time shaping each cookie they would have looked better. My young son thought they were pretty tasteless. UPDATE: 3 weeks later I decided to eat up the rest to get rid of them, and found they had greatly improved with taste as they sat in an airtight plastic container (with other batches of cookies). I actually became a little addicted to them…so I’ve upgraded my rating from a 2 to a 3 (for taste). They’re still a ‘1’ as far as ease to make is concernced.