Chocolate and vanilla pinwheels spiral cookies. Cooking time approximately an hour.

Black and white pinwheels striped cookies.

One cookie 30g, 6.5x7cm 0.5cm thick, 120 calories.

Ingredients:

185g butter (Make sure the butter is at room temperature)

185g caster sugar

3-4 drops vanilla essence

2 eggs

560g Self-raising flour

50g almonds, crushed

2 tablespoons cocoa powder

Method:

To make dough, beat soft butter and sugar until creamy then add eggs. 

Add flour and mix to form dough.Divide dough in half. 

To one part, add almonds with 3-4 drops of vanilla essence. Mix well together.

Second dough place back in the bowl and add the cocoa powder then mix until well incorporated.

On the two individual sheets of waxed paper, roll out both vanilla and chocolate dough into two equal shapes.Flip the rolled chocolate dough onto the vanilla dough, and then peel the waxed paper off of the chocolate dough.  Lightly press by gently running your rolling pin on the surface to remove any air pockets and ensure both are adhered. 

Tightly roll the dough into a log, wrap log tightly in plastic wrap and freeze for about 15 minutes. While log in the freezer preheat oven to 180C (350F/Gas4) Cut roll into 0.5cm thick slices, place on baking sheets. Bake in the oven for 20 min until lightly browned. 

Remove to wire racks to cool. 

Cooking time approximately an hour. 

1 cookie 30 g, 6.5x7cm 0.5cm thick, 120 calories

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