Vanilla and chocolate pinwheels |
My husband's favorite pinwheel cookies are lemon and ginger. I didn't make those; I still may make them. It depends on how much I can get done before Christmas.
These doughs are easy to make and easy to work with. The only tricky part of these cookies are rolling them up into a log. I don't have mad dough rolling skills so I know that I am going to have two ugly cookies on each side. I am ok with that because I get to eat the ugly cookies. I also believe that broken cookies don't have any calories; I eat those too. These are two of the many reasons that I only make Christmas cookies once a year.
3/4 Cup (170 g) of Butter
1/2 Cup (60g) of Powdered Sugar
2 Tsp of Vanilla
1 1/2 Cups (180g) of Flour
1/2 Tsp of Salt
Cream the butter, sugar, and vanilla together. Slowly add the flour and salt until well mixed.
Vanilla dough |
Chocolate Kahlua Dough
3/4 Cup (170g) of Butter
1/2 Cup (60g) of Powdered Sugar
1 Tbsp of Kahlua
1 1/4 Cups (150g) of Flour
1/4 Cup (40 g) of Cocoa
1/2 Tsp of Salt
Cream the butter, sugar, and Kahlua together. Slowly add the flour, cocoa and salt until well mixed.
Chocolate dough |
Assembly
Place dough on a piece of wax paper and roll flat with a rolling pin. (In a perfect world you should have two rectangles one slightly smaller than the other). The dough should be firm for the next step (if it isn't chill the dough).
My not so perfect rectangles |
Ready to be rolled |
Dough log |
Preheat oven to 350F/176C/Gas Mark 4. With a sharp knife cut the log into 1/4 inch (1/2 cm) slices.
Dough log |
Chocolate dough on the outside |
Vanilla dough on the outside |
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