Chocolate Pinwheel Cookies

Good Morning Lovelies..

and welcome to my Kitchen

Of course I have to start the day with a coffee... 

Im going to need all the help I can get today

Photo 1941

Today is Shopping Day...and its our monthly stock up.. Hubby finishes work early on a Friday so Im really glad I have his help today..  Hopefully we will make good time and get home early. Putting everything away is a real chore

The dehydration process has finished and the potatoes are lovely, hard and crispy

They are now stored in jars, ready for the winter months and will  be perfect for hotpots, au gratins and soups

photo 1949

So its time for a bit more baking... and these little Chocolate Pinwheel Cookies 

A crisp little cookie from Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, November 1940. Hubby says they have a soft shortbread quality to them. They are smaller than I imagined... but as hubby said they are perfect with a cup of coffee. 

I've never made a pinwheel cookie before.. and although a bit fiddly... they are quite easy. But next time I will make sure I have a better knife for slicing so thy dont look so squashed

½ cup shortening

½ cup sugar

1 egg yolk

1½ teaspoons vanilla extract

1½ cups flour

¼ teaspoon salt 

½ teaspoon baking powder

3 tablespoons milk

1-ounce square unsweetened chocolate

• Thoroly cream shortening and sugar
• Add egg yolk and vanilla extract; beat well. 
• Add flour, sifted with salt and baking powder, alternately with milk. 
• Divide dough in half. 
• Melt chocolate in shallow round-bottom bowl over hot water
• Add to half the dough
• Mix thoroly. 
• Chill 1 hour. 
• Roll each half into rectangular sheet, 1/8 inch thick, on heavy waxed paper. 

Original Magazine Illustration

• Turn white part on chocolate with chocolate extending ½ inch beyond white part. 
• Remove waxed paper from white part. 
• Roll as for jelly roll. 
• Chill overnight. (Dont skip this step or they will be very difficult to slice)

• Slice 1/8 inch thick
• Bake on ungreased cookie sheet in hot oven (375°) 10 minutes. 
• Makes 4 dozen.

Better Homes and Gardens Magazine
November 1940

Thank you for popping by..

Love and Blessings

Mrs D x