Chocolate Pinwheels

Submitted by berry271

"Found in the Dec/Jan 1996 issue of Taste of Home, submitted by Patricia Kile."

 

• Ready In: 4hrs
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 9 dozen cookies
• Serves: 50

ingredients

• 10 tablespoons butter, divided
• 1 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 brown sugar, packed
• 1 egg
• 1 3⁄4 teaspoons vanilla extract, divided
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt, divided
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

directions

1. Soften 1/2 cup of the butter.
2. Cream with the sugars.
3. Add egg and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla and beat until light and fluffy.
4. Add flour, baking powder, and 1/8 teaspoons of the salt and beat well.
5. Divide dough in half and place each half between two sheets of wax paper.
6. Roll each half of dough out into a 12 inch by 10 inch rectangle.
7. Chill until almost firm, about 30 minutes.
8. Meanwhile melt chocolate chips and remaining 2 tbsp butter.
9. Add remaining 1/4 teaspoons vanilla and 1/4 teaspoons salt and mix well.
10. Spread 1/2 of mixture over each rectangle of dough.
11. Roll each rectangle up into a tight jelly roll and wrap in wax paper.
12. Chill until firm, about 2 hours.
13. Cut each roll into 1/8 inch slices and place on a parchment lined baking sheet.
14. Bake at 350 F until lightly browned, about 7-10 minutes.

Reviews

[Jadelabyrinth]

These were easy to put together. I was able to make one 12 x 10 rectangle and one 10 x 10 rectangle of dough. My problem came after chilling for two hours. The chocolate layer got quite hard after being in the refrigerator that long. As I attempted to cut it the chocolate kept shattering making it impossible to cut 1/8 slices. Perhaps it needed more butter melted into the chocolate chips. My slices were close to a 1/4 inch thick and weren't as pretty as they could have been because of all the shattered chocolate. I only got 41 cookies, so even if I had cut them at 1/8 inch, I would not have gotten 108 (9 dz) cookies. All that being said, these were tasty.