Marble Pinwheels

This recipe is from Joy of Making Cookies by Alex Goh. Haha… Thought this recipe was easy. Alas, when came to the part to stack the chocolate dough on the plain dough, it was a challenge for this butter-fingered Tazz. Some part of the chocolate dough broke off. After some manoeuvres, managed to mend the dough. *Phew!*

The name of these cookies is Marble Pinwheels. Look at the shapes of my cookies and you will see that I have not done a good job. Instead of round shapes like wheels, I have oval shapes and you can even see holes in the center of the cookies. Oh well, when I sulked over my poor skill, Gene said “Mummy, stop being a perfectionist!!!!”

Mmm…… @&#$!@#



Marble Pinwheels

Ingredients:
320g butter
170g icing sugar
2 large eggs
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
550g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
20g cocoa powder


Method:

1. Mix butter and icing sugar till well blended. Add in eggs and vanilla essence and cream lightly till smooth.

2. Add in sifted plain flour and baking powder and mix till well blended.

3. Divide the dough into two. Mix the cocoa powder to one part of the dough to form the chocolate dough.

4. Keep the doughs in the fridge for an hour. Roll both the chocolate and plain doughs in between sheets of plastic separately to a 5mm thickness.

5. Brush the plain dough with egg white and place the chocolate dough on top.

6. Roll it like Swiss Roll and wrap it with plastic sheet. Keep in the fridge overnight or till firm.

7. Slice it to a 3mm thickness. Place on greased pan.

8. Bake in preheated oven at 170 degree Celsius for 15-20 minutes.

Note: Do not overbake the first four ingredients. The cookies will be fragile and easily broken after baking.

Tazz’s Note: I baked for 20 minutes, the cookies were still quite pale, so I continued to bake until golden brown, like those in the book.