Pinwheels cookie

It has been a while since I last updated my blog. I have been busy with things especially Christmas is just around the corner. Not that I will have any much of celebration this year because there will only be the two of us. And plus, the Danes do not have the 'open house' tradition like we Malaysian do. We only held 'close house'... only for the invited guests. But nevertheless,  my in laws will be joining us for Christmas Eve dinner where we will host it at our home. And to lighten up my OWN Christmas mood, I baked some cookies. Originally I wanted to bake 6 types but decided on 3 the very last minute.

Here I would like to share my recipe on how to bake pinwheel cookie. It is called a pinwheel because as you can see from the picture, it look like a pinwheel. Although I am using red color, you can always use any kind of color that you feel like using. It is not so hard to make and it taste very buttery. 

As usual, you need butter ( I prefer to use Lurpak. Yes, it is a bit pricey but from all the experience I used Lurpak, that true buttery taste is MARVELOUS!), flour, castor sugar (white because you won't want your cookie to look like it is hangus), baking powder, salt, vanilla essence, food coloring ( I'm using red) and multi -color nonpareil decors. If you want the color dough to have some flavor, you can use rose essence but mine no have ok. Heheh....

  First, you make the dough. Blend butter & sugar together in one bowl then add vanilla essence. In another bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and salt. Yes, this cookie do not use any egg. Then mix the flour into the butter mixture. Mix well until it form a ball like dough. Separate the dough into two ball..

 One you mix with the rose essence (if you intended to use add some flavor to your dough) and the red food coloring.

 Another dough, just a plain one.

Then for each dough (separately), you 'sandwich' it with a wax paper or baking paper. You alas bawah dgn baking paper and cover atas juga la. Cam kat bawah ni..

Then you need to rolled it into a rectangular shape. Kalau nak very particular, you boleh la sukat the measurement (lebih kurang 11x81/2 inches) and ketebalan dlm 1/8 inch. Tapi kalau you macam I, I main agak2 jer. Bukan kata dah expert tapi memandangkan I bukan nak join competition, so if I tengok ketebalan ok..lebar ok..panjang ok..SET! Then you place both of the dough in the fridge, between 3 hrs to few days ( approx. 3days). Since I am not in a hurry, I left it overnight. 

The next day, you take the rolled dough out from the fridge and kasi lembut sket. maybe biar for few minute. Then with the plain dough on the bottom, take off the wax paper on top of the dough and brush some egg white on top. Ini kira function as a glue to stick the two dough together. Lepas tu, take the red dough (tanggalkan wax paper kat bawah dough merah tu and place the red dough on top of the plain dough. Press it carefully so that it will stick together..

Like this...nampak kan the plain dough kat bawah. Sebelum you start rolling it cam nak buat swiss roll, you spread the multi-color decors in a tray. Then slowly roll the dough (tp make sure the dough x lembut sangat & tak keras sgt. If too soft, susah nak roll tp kalau too hard, it tends to break). As you begin to roll, gently curl the edge with your finger tips in order to avoid air pocket when you rolled the dough into a log. Lepas tu, place the 'log' dough in the tray that is full of the multi color decors. Keep rolling until the 'log' is completely cover by the decors. Lepas tu I believe the log dah lembut so masukkan dlm fridge dulu. Jangan potong when the 'log' lembut because it will be out of shape. Lepas few hrs, take out the log and cut it approx. 1/4inch thickness (oh ya, bila you dah roll jadi log tadi, trim the edge so nampak kemas sket).

As you can see, the shape tak round sangat kan. Xper..heheh...the look masih nampak ada pinwheel. Bake the cookie in a 175C temp. oven for 15-17 minutes. 

The taste...very buttery and it is soft yet crunchy. Best untuk minum kopi or tea. Slamat mencuba uols!!

The recipe ( make between 24-36 cookies):

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup of castor sugar
• 21/2 sticks butter (1stick of butter is approx. 122gm)
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1/2 tsp strawberry/rose flavor (if you decide to add flavor to the red dough)
• 1/2 tsp red food coloring
• 11/2 cups of multi color decors (more if you want)

So, smua dah diterangkan. Siler la mencuba. Maybe your shape is better than mine...coz mine a bit out..x cukup round. Hehhe..