Pinwheel date cookies

These vintage Date Pinwheel Cookies are a nostalgic choice for your holiday cookie trays. Full step by step photo tutorial!

This is a great recipe for a delicious cookie to serve at the end of any meal. The dates have such a wonderful flavor.—Ms. Lee B. Roberts, Racine, Wisconsin

Old-fashioned Date and Nut Pinwheel cookies are made with a basic cookie dough and a magical swirl of date filling. A great Christmas cookie!

One thing that was constant in my childhood was really good food. Even when we had so very little it always tasted good. We know that foundation came from Grandma Bracken who raised and fed a large family mostly on her own. When my mom joined the Bracken Family she was welcomed into a family who loved food and as a result became a very very good cook. It became the foundation of my life.Many of my mom and grandma's recipes made it into the kitchens of some of the best hotels in Southern…

Back in August when I was visiting relatives down in Florida I asked my 91 year old Aunt Hilda if she had any old recipes she would be willing to pass on to me, specifically, cookie or cake recipes! She disappeared into the kitchen for a few minutes and came out with a few" oldies but goodies!" She is the only remaining relative from that generation on both sides and if anyone would have any old family recipes left, it would be her! Growing up we would always spend Christmas with my Aunt and…

Betty's Date Pinwheels for the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2013.

Grandma's Old-Fashioned Date Pinwheels Icebox Cookies def stand the test of time! Slightly crispy and chewy with the perfect amount of spice!

Buttery spiral cookies with date filling are a delicious treat.

Pin Wheel Cookies are self-explanatory in their appearance, but the one thing that I have learned over the years is that every family that bakes them for the holiday season has their own interpretation on the ingredients used. For the pinwheel cookies that have been made in our family, Dates and Pecans are the primary ...

Learn how to bake like grandma with these time-tested secret cookie recipes.