DIY Patriotic Pinwheel Cookies for American Girl Dolls

You can cover a small box with white typing paper, and tie the lid shut with white twine,
 to make your cookies look like they were purchased fresh from Grace's French bakery.
Because red, white and blue are also the colors of Great Britian's and France's flags,
our pinwheel cookie crafts would also be fun to include in a doll bakery overseas! 

        Above is a fresh baked box of patriotic pinwheel cookies for our American Girl dolls to share at their 4th of July picnic. These are easy to craft with just a small amount of oven bake clay. To make the process even faster, purchase colored clays in advance. If you are frugal like me, suffer through the process of mixing the red and blue to avoid holiday traffic!

Don't forget to throw away the sticky, clay mess left on the wax paper as soon as you have 
rolled it out with a glass! I doubt that this stained clay can be washed from any kind of fabric.

        You can color white Sculpey by kneeding in acrylic paints. It's a very messy business so I don't exactly recommend the process if you can purchase factory colors. Above you can see that I was able to combine the acrylics with the oven bake clay to create some relatively bold colors. Make sure that if you choose to do this, work on top of wax paper and when you roll it out with a glass, sandwich the clay between wax papers.

       Roll out the colored clays: red, white and blue and stack these on top of each other. You can stretch out the clay a bit to ensure that there is equal coverage for all three before rolling these up together.

It isn't necessary to compress the clay much as you roll it out. Just tap it down slightly 
to remove air bubbles.

        On the left you can see that I am rolling all three colors into a log. On the right my log is ready for cutting.

I gently pressed out the edges of each doll cookie to make them look more life-like,
 before baking them.

       Above and left, I cut consistent sized cookies with a knife and layed these out on top of a cookie sheet and baked them at 275 Fahrenheit or 135 Celsius for 5 - 8 minutes. Sculpey is best baked when it is allowed to heat up with your oven and cool down slowly without the oven door ajar.

       After my pretend doll cookies cooled, I brushed them with white glue and rolled them in transparent glitter to mimic sugar.

       These pretend sweet treats will be much appreciated by little mothers in their play doll bakery.