Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies

"I recently found this recipe on my computer and sadly did not keep the source of this delectable treat. Decided to add them to my trays this year. The cookies are quite large so you can always roll them out a bit more to increase your yield."
 
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photo by Ashley Cuoco photo by Ashley Cuoco
photo by Ashley Cuoco
photo by Ashley Cuoco photo by Ashley Cuoco
photo by Ashley Cuoco photo by Ashley Cuoco
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Ready In:
47mins
Ingredients:
14
Yields:
3 dozen
Serves:
36
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ingredients

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directions

  • Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
  • Place butter and sugar in large bowl of electric stand mixer and beat until light and fluffy. Add egg and milk and beat to combine. Put mixer on low speed, gradually add flour, and beat until mixture pulls away from the side of the bowl. The dough will be very stiff and crumbly at this point alost like a shortbread. Don't worry, you are adding liquid in the next steps.
  • Divide the dough in half and add chocolate and vanilla to 1 half and incorporate with hands. Add egg yolk, peppermint extract, and crushed candy to other half of dough and incorporate with hands. (If you like you can add a drop or two of red food coloring to make the dough a pppermint pink.) Cover both with plastic and chill for approximately 5-10 minutes.
  • Roll out doughs separately to approximately 1/4-inch thickness. Place peppermint dough on top of chocolate and press together around the edges. Using waxed paper or flexible cutting board underneath, roll dough into log. Wrap in wax paper and refrigerate for 2 hours or more. (I let my logs cool for 6 hours and they were very easy to slice.).
  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  • Remove dough from the refrigerator and cut into 1/4-inch slices. Place cookies 1-inch apart on greased baking sheet, parchment, or silicone baking mat and bake for 12 to 13 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through cooking time. Remove from oven and let sit on baking sheet for 2 minutes, then move to a wire rack to cool completely.
  • Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.

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Reviews

  1. This recipe is from Alton Brown and his show on food network, Good Eats. I really love these cookies, but i have to agree with previous reviewers - each time I make these, they turn out differently. From now on, I think I'm going to stick with tampering with regular sugar cookie dough.
     
  2. The cookies turned out really really beautiful, but they had no taste. At all.
     
  3. These were both delicious and beautiful! I did add the red food coloring and I am glad I did. My only problem... I didn't make enough. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
     
  4. A friend of mine recently brought these to a gathering. They are sooooo yummy! They are quite large, but everyone will want to share! I'm going to make these for the holidays this year!
     
  5. These are outstanding! I had some problems, but it all worked out. I knew I had an entire box of candy canes, but when I went to get them out of the cabinet, they were cherry! So I figured I would just use the peppermint extract. Turns out I had assorted hard candies in the same cabinet and there were some starlight mints included, so I crushed those up. Also, I obviously messed up with dividing the dough in half, because my chocolate half was a little dry and my pink half was wet. I literally had to spread the pink over the chocolate because it wasn't rollable. I almost didn't have enough pink, but I got it to spread just enough. However, even with my problems (and they were mine, not the recipe's), these came out fabulous. Thanks for posting! P.S. I got 39 cookies out of the batch.
     
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