Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 34 teaspoon baking powder
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 tablespoon milk
- powdered sugar, for rolling out dough
- 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 12 cup crushed candy cane (about 9 candy canes)
- Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Set aside.
- Place butter and sugar in large bowl of electric stand mixer and beat until light in color.
- 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.
- Divide the dough in half.
- By hand mix the melted chocolate and vanilla into one half and the peppermint extract, egg yolk and candy cane bits into the other half.
- Make sure the candy can pieces are very small (I recommend using a food processor to crush them) otherwise your cookies will have pits where the candy melted down.
- Wrap dough in saran wrap or wax paper and chill for 30 minutes.
- Roll the doughs out separately to approximately 1/4 inch thickness (1/4 inch thick rubber bands that snap onto your rolling pin are great for this).
- Make the chocolate layer just a little longer than the peppermint.
- Place the chocolate layer on wax paper and the peppermint layer on top of the chocolate.
- Press the edges together and then carefully roll them into a log using the wax paper as a stabilizer for the process.
- Refrigerate the log for 2 hours so it will hold its shape when cut into rounds.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Cut the log into equally sized rounds and place on either parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until cookies are just beginning to turn brown around the edges.
- The let them sit on the baking sheet for 2 minutes after removal from oven before moving to a wire rack to finish cooling.
allpurpose, baking powder, salt, unsalted butter, sugar, egg, milk, powdered sugar, chocolate, vanilla, egg yolk, peppermint, cane
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-peppermint-pinwheel-cookies-274935 (may not work)