Finnish pinwheel cookies

Makes about 24 cookies

Soft and flaky pasty surrounds a flavorful jam in Joulutorttu, festive Finnish Christmas Star Cookies. For best results, refrigerate this dough for 2-3 hours before shaping and baking the cookies.

When my sister was hosting an exchange student from Finland, she served these cookies I'd made to her guest. The young lady instantly recognized what they were. So I know they're still being made in our ancestors' country. —Ilona Barron, Ontonagon, Michigan

When my sister was hosting an exchange student from Finland, she served these cookies I'd made to her guest. The young lady instantly recognized what they were. So I know they're still being made in our ancestors' country. —Ilona Barron, Ontonagon, Michigan

Finnish Star Cookies Joulutorttu Recipe | Martha Stewart Living — A rich cream-cheese dough flecked with lemon zest is filled with sweet-tart raspberry preserves in these festive pinwheel cookies known as joulutorttu, which means Christmas tart in Finnish.

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Sugarplum pinwheels: a variation of the traditional Finnish Joulutorttu plum filled pastries, this time topped with a fruit and nut sugarplum bonbon.