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Cranberry Pinwheel Cookie

Dec-26-2016
Indrani Dhar
40 minutes
Prep Time
20 minutes
Cook Time
6 People
Serves
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ABOUT Cranberry Pinwheel Cookie RECIPE

In these cookies, first cranberries are cooked and made into a jam like consistency, then it is filled inside cookie dough, rolled and cut into round cookies. Though the step looks a little tricky, but it's absolutely very easy-to-make.

Recipe Tags

  • Veg
  • Medium
  • Christmas
  • British
  • Accompaniment
  • Egg Free

Ingredients Serving: 6

  1. All purpose flour -2 cups
  2. Sugar -1 cup
  3. Butter -50 gms.
  4. Oil - 1/3 cup
  5. Milk - 1/3-1/2 cup, in room temperature
  6. Orange zest/essence - 1 tsp.
  7. Baking Powder -1 tsp.
  8. Baking Soda -1/4 tsp.
  9. For cranberry filling-
  10. Cranberry -1cup
  11. Honey - 1 tbsp.
  12. Orange essence - 1 tsp.

Instructions

  1. Make the dough first. In a bowl, add flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix well. In another bowl, beat butter and sugar. Add oil, milk and orange zest or essence. Beat for 2-3 minutes and mix well everything.
  2. now add the flour mixture little by little in the butter-sugar mixture. Add half of the dry ingredients and beat on low speed until just incorporated. Mix rest of the dry ingredients with a wooden spoon until evenly incorporated.
  3. If the dough is too dry to hold together, stir in up to 1 tablespoon more milk. Divide the dough in two portions, wrap in cling film and refrigerate both the dough for 30 to 45 minutes.
  4. Making cranberry filling : Combine cranberries, honey, orange essence and 2-3 tblsp. water in a medium saucepan and bring the mixture to a gentle boil and cook, stirring, until the cranberries soften, 4 to 5 minutes.
  5. Let cool slightly. Transfer to a food processor and puree. If the mixture seems dry, stir in up to 2 teaspoons water. Transfer the mixture in a container.
  6. Take out the dough, divide into into 2 portions. Spread some butter paper on a plain surface. Sprinkle some flour on the butter paper and roll out the dough up to 1/4 inch thickness.
  7. Now, spread some cranberry filling evenly on the rolled out dough in a thin layer. Now roll the dough tightly inwards till the end in a log shape. At this time, you can refrigerate the cookie logs for 10-15 minutes.
  8. Similarly, prepare the other dough. Line a baking tray with parchment paper. Now cut the cookie logs with a serrated knife into 1/4 inch thick slices and place them on baking tray, keeping 1/2 inch space in between each cookie.
  9. Bake in 180 degree Celsius, for 15-18 minutes. Remove when done and cool completely. After baking, cookies will feel soft but after it cools down, it gets hard and crispy.

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Kanak Patel
Dec-27-2016
Kanak Patel   Dec-27-2016

Looks amazing!

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