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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  • 15 September 2012

    DebsK rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    I made these with the suggested extra 25g of flour in the "white" portion, it worked really well. I would put more sugar in next time as I think it needs to be a little sweeter.

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  • 22 December 2012

    tilster rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I found out too late that I didn't actually have any vanilla extract so I used orange instead. Also works really well.

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  • 28 April 2013

    poptart rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    They are in the oven now so can't say what they taste like (although the raw dough was nice!) didn't find them a faff but the dough is very soft and sticky. I put it in the freezer for 20 mins and it was much easier to cut. Only gave them 3 stars because of the need to add more flour and the freezing and also they don't look a thing like the picture!!!

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  • 28 April 2013

    poptart commented on this recipe

    They are in the oven now so can't say what they taste like (although the raw dough was nice!) didn't find them a faff but the dough is very soft and sticky. I put it in the freezer for 20 mins and it was much easier to cut. Only gave them 3 stars because of the need to add more flour and the freezing and also they don't look a thing like the picture!!!

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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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