Black & white pinwheel cookies

Black & white pinwheel cookies

Truly delicious by themselves or served with ice cream or chocolate mousse

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes about 40 cookies

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 1 hour, plus chilling

Method

  1. Cream the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer, or use a large bowl with a hand-held electric beater. Beat in the vanilla and egg, then add the flour. Beat until smooth, remove from the bowl, halve the dough and beat the cocoa into one of the portions using a mixer. Shape both dough portions into rough oblongs. Wrap in clingfilm and chill for 30 minutes until firm.
  2. Roll out each dough to £1-coin thickness, trying to keep the oblong shape. Put the chocolate dough on top of the white dough and trim the edges to neaten. Roll up lengthways like a Swiss roll, then wrap in clingfilm and chill for 45 minutes. Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
  3. Slice the dough into discs as thinly as you can, put them on a non-stick baking sheet and cook for 15 minutes. Cool on wire racks.

Per cookie

83 kcalories, protein 0.9g, carbohydrate 10.3g, fat 4.6 g, saturated fat 2.7g, fibre 0.3g, salt 0.01 g

Recipe from olive magazine, January 2008.

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  • 27 March 2008

    Louise Howe rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    These are lovely and look great too.

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  • 01 April 2008

    Fen Moore rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    these are delicious!! very more-ish!! perfect for the girls!!

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  • 05 July 2008

    Dena Littlew rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    These are lovely! well worth the effort

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  • 08 November 2008

    Erica rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    these were really nice but i found the plain cookie dough very wet and sticky to work with-maybe not enough flour? next time i would add 25g of flour to the plain mix aswell as adding 25g of cocoa to the chocolate one. the end result was pretty good tho.

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  • 12 January 2009

    Belkey rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    The recipe says to cut the dough as thin as possible, but I found that if you want a "cookie like" texture then they need to be cut thicker.

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  • 12 January 2009

    lucii3 commented on this recipe

    we have these at school

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  • 01 March 2009

    Stef commented on this recipe

    I found the plain cookie dough to be a bit wet and stuck to the work surface when I was trying to roll it out, no matter how much flour I used. I agree with Erica and will try putting 25g extra flour into the plain cookie dough next time to see if it makes a difference! Had a lot of fun making them though and they look very impressive. They're in the oven now and smell yummy! Can't wait to try them!

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  • 09 April 2009

    Andy rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    taste great, and the kids loved making (and eating them) But they are very time consuming with all the chilling. The last 45 mins, I shortened to 15min by using the freezer.

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  • 12 June 2009

    B4k3rG1rl commented on this recipe

    i added 2 tbsp of ground almonds to the plain half and it was good my family will love them!!!!

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  • 12 June 2009

    B4k3rG1rl commented on this recipe

    mine don't look like the picture!

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  • 28 August 2009

    Alicia commented on this recipe

    "Slice the dough into discs as thinly as you can" could anyone please tell me roughly how thick or thin? any help greatly appreciated

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  • 09 September 2009

    debetha rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    Definitely need more flour - my plain mix was far too sticky to be remotely managable, with the choc mix not much better. Couldn't roll either of them, managed to wrap one oblong around the other, and roll it out that way, but end result not very pretty. taste ok, but won't bother with these again

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  • 10 December 2009

    jb5370 rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Hmm - a bit fiddly and mine also didn't look much like the picture! Very time consuming but smelled and tasted good. Not sure I'd make the effort again though.

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  • 05 January 2010

    Sarah rated this recipe

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  • 24 June 2010

    maisiegliddon rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    these came out awesome, defo need to add the extra flour to the plain dough - perfect :)

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  • 19 July 2010

    JohannaH91 rated this recipe

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  • 26 November 2010

    MsLeee rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    OMG have been searching for a recipe for these for ages, we used to have them in school and I could never remember their name....going to try them later!

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  • 18 December 2010

    RuthKettle rated this recipe

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    19 January 2012

    Ren rated this recipe

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  • 03 May 2012

    Anju_is_in_the_kitchen rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    i've just tried making these and the result is in the oven at the moment! definitely far too less flour in the recipe.. i basically kept adding a little flour until the dough because just manageable. the key to keeping the shape is to chill the dough so that it holds its shape. to get it looking like the picture though is another qn, i don't think it will happen by rolling the dough out to a £1 coin thickness.. anyway, i think this may be one of those 'magical' biscuits that my daughter will remember when she's older! :)

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes about 40 cookies

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 1 hour, plus chilling

Ingredients

  • 25g cocoa

SUGAR COOKIE DOUGH

  • 200g unsalted butter , at room temperature
  • 150g caster sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 300g plain flour , sifted
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Per cookie

83 kcalories, protein 0.9g, carbohydrate 10.3g, fat 4.6 g, saturated fat 2.7g, fibre 0.3g, salt 0.01 g

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