Chocolate-Nut Pinwheel Cookies Recipe

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As a little girl, I made these with my mother every Christmas. Now I make them every year with my daughters-in-law, daughters and grandchildren!—Sedonie Zeitler, Luxemburg, Wisconsin

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Chocolate-Nut Pinwheel Cookies Recipe

Prep: 1 hour + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch

Yield: 60 Servings

60 10 70

Ingredients

2/3 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup ground almonds
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 cup baking cocoa

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Divide dough in half; add almonds and almond extract to one portion. Add cocoa to remaining portion.
Roll out each portion between two sheets of waxed paper into a 16-in. x 8-in. rectangle. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Remove waxed paper. Place almond layer over chocolate dough. Roll up tightly jelly-roll style, starting with a long side; wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate overnight or until firm.
Unwrap and cut into 1/4-in. slices. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 9-11 minutes or until set. Remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: about 5 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie equals 46 calories, 2 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 9 mg cholesterol, 29 mg sodium, 6 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein.

Originally published as Chocolate-Nut Pinwheel Cookies in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2009, p74

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Reviewed on Jul. 20, 2012 by Mamidecinco

Me and my five kids have ALWAYS baked these wonderful and fun-to-bake cookies in December. If they are away from home for Christmas they still get a bunch of them from mom.