Chocolate Vanilla Pinwheel Cookies
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The delight of Chocolate Vanilla Cookies comes from chocolate as well vanilla dough that are sandwiched and rolled together to form a beautiful pinwheel. The chocolate-vanilla flavors and the swirl design of these freshly baked cookies are a promising trinity to its lovers.
Making these pinwheel cookies is not very difficult, but it requires patience to roll and form the swirl. Chilling the dough and then swirl log is essential for cutting neat swirls.
Ingredients
For Measurements refer to the RECIPE CARD further below.
Flours – All purpose flour and cornflour
Sugar – Powdered sugar
Butter – Unsalted
Rising agents – baking powder/ baking soda
Vanilla Essence – Goes well with Cocoa
Cocoa – Use good quality cocoa powder
Salt – a pinch. Omit if using salted butter
Milk– Use bare minimum for binding
How to make Pinwheel Cookies with step by step instructions
Vanilla Dough
Firstly, cream the sugar and butter till light and fluffy.
Add 1 tbsp milk and vanilla essence and beat very well. Milk will help in binding the dough.
Sift the flour, cornflour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Add the dry ingredients and mix to form a dough.
Cling wrap the dough and chill it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes or so.
Chocolate dough
In another bowl again, cream the sugar and butter till light and fluffy.
Add 1 tbsp milk and vanilla essence and beat very well. Milk will help in binding the dough
Now sift the flour, cocoa powder, cornflour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Add the dry ingredients and mix to form a chocolate dough.
Cling wrap the dough and chill it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes or so. Refrigerate this too.
Make the Pinwheel Cookies
Place a butter paper on a clean kitchen platform and place the vanilla dough on it.
Cover it with cling wrap sheet and roll it into a rectangle of around 1/4 inch thickness using a rolling pin.
Repeat for the chocolate dough too.
Now brush some water on the surface of the rolled vanilla dough and place the chocolate rolled out dough on top of it. Do this step carefully for a neat swirl.
Roll it tightly along with the cling wrap and refrigerate this for an hour or so.
Bake Pinwheel Cookies
Preheat the oven at 160 degree Celsius for at least 10 minutes.
Take a sharp knife and cut into circular discs of around 1/4 inch thickness.
Place them on a baking tray lined up with parchment paper leaving gaps between them.
Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes at 160° C.
Remove the tray from oven and wait for 3-4 minutes before transferring the cookies on to a cooling rack.
Cool it fully before you serve or store it in airtight containers.
What to serve
Serve these chocolate pinwheels with Cardamom Caffe latte, or Karak Chai alongwith Carrot Orange Loaf Cake and Chocolate muffins.
Tips for Chocolate Vanilla Pinwheel Cookies
All ingredients must be at room temperature.
Use good quality cocoa powder
Be careful while handling the rolled out cookie dough.
The cookies will be soft when removing them from the oven. Do not worry they will harden up on cooling.
Recipe Card
Chocolate Vanilla Pinwheel Cookies
Ingredients
For vanilla dough:
- 125 gm All Purpose flour/ Refined flour
- 1 tbsp Cornflour
- 75 gm Sugar powdered
- 75 gm Butter
- 1/8 tsp Baking powder
- pinch Baking soda
- ½ tsp Vanilla essence or vanilla powder
- pinch Salt
- 1 tbsp Milk room temperature
For chocolate dough:
- 125 gm Maida
- 1 tbsp Cornflour
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 85 gm Sugar powdered
- 85 gm Butter
- 1/8 tsp Baking powder
- pinch baking soda
- ½ tsp Vanilla essence or vanilla powder
- pinch Salt
- 1-2 tbsp Milk room temperature
Instructions
Vanilla Dough
- Firstly, cream the sugar and butter till light and fluffy.
- Add 1 tbsp milk and vanilla essence and beat very well. Milk will help in binding the dough.
- Sift the flour, cornflour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix to form a dough.
- Cling wrap the dough and chill it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes or so.
Chocolate dough
- In another bowl again, cream the sugar and butter till light and fluffy.
- Add 1 tbsp milk and vanilla essence and beat very well. Milk will help in binding the dough
- Now sift the flour, cocoa powder, cornflour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix to form a chocolate dough.
- Cling wrap the dough and chill it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes or so. Refrigerate this too.
Make the Pinwheel Cookies
- Place a butter paper on a clean kitchen platform and place the vanilla dough on it.
- Cover it with cling wrap sheet and roll it into a rectangle of around 1/4 inch thickness using a rolling pin.
- Repeat for the chocolate dough too.
- Roll it tightly along with the cling wrap and refrigerate this for an hour or so.
Bake Pinwheel Cookies
- Preheat the oven at 160 degree Celsius for at least 10 minutes.
- Take a sharp knife and cut into circular discs of around 1/4-inch thickness.
- Place them on a baking tray lined up with parchment paper leaving gaps between them.
- Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes at 160° C.
- Remove the tray from oven and wait for 3-4 minutes before transferring the cookies on to a cooling rack.
- Cool it fully before you serve or store it in airtight containers.
What to serve with
- Serve these chocolate pinwheels with Cardamom Caffe latte, or Karak Chai alongwith Carrot Orange Loaf Cake and Chocolate muffins.
Video
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Notes
- All ingredients must be at room temperature.
- Use good quality cocoa powder
- Be careful while handling the rolled out cookie dough.
- The cookies will be soft when removing them from the oven. Do not worry they will harden up on cooling.
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Oh my! Neha these chocolate vanilla pinwheel cookies have brought back so many memories for me. Use to make them for the kids during Diwali, for their birthday parties and for the lunch boxes. It has been a long time since I’ve baked them.
I am glad these cookies are revived cherishable memories. Please do make these pinwheel cookies to relive those moments.
How cute are these cookies? I bet you just cant keep your hands limited to one. Love them.
Seema, very true- you can’t stop at just one cookie. Do make them and enjoy.
These Pinwheel Cookies made me nostalgic. Reminded of India.. they look lovely and I am sure my daughter will love it.. will try them
I am glad these cookies associate with lovely memories. Do make them.
Wow! These pinwheel cookies are so delicious. Honestly, I had never tried making them. I was making some cookies, so I tried them out. Now hubby wants only these pinwheel cookies. Thanks.
True these cookies get you hooked onto them. So delicious!
I remember my mom baking these chocolaty pin wheel cookies using the aluminum stove top oven with sand underneath. Your post got me back all the fond memories of childhood.
Oh! that’s great to know. Now bake them and relive your childhood moments.
OMG ! this cookie looks picture perfect, with the blend of choco and vanilla, am sure they were gone before you blinked !
You are right Kalyani. I had to forcefully hold back by son so that I could click pics of these cookies before they were gone.
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