The Dorie's Cookies group recipes for October are Chocolate and Walnut Bars (page 45) and Cherry-Nut Chocolate Pinwheels (page 245). This week I chose to make the Cherry-Nut Chocolate Pinwheels.
Ingredient list: flour, cocoa powder, butter, sugar, salt, egg white, vanilla, dried cherries, chopped walnuts, sugar, and optional: sanding sugar and white chocolate chips for the drizzle.
The dough comes together quickly and easily with all the usual lineup of ingredients. It has to chill in the freezer a bit, at which time you can make and cool the filling which is also not at all difficult, although it did take me twice the amount of time to get it to reduce to be the spreadable consistency Dorie detailed in the recipe, but that just gave me a little longer in the kitchen so I used the time to straighten the pantry. Again, not at all difficult (straightening the pantry was the more difficult of the two tasks actually). After filling the pinwheel dough (what a luxurious dough this truly is) it is again parked in the freezer before slicing and baking. All in all, a pleasant little cookie to make, something a bit unusual for us around here with its fruit and nut filling.
Two chocolate cookie recipes in a row…my husband is very happy, he says they are delicious and worth repeating as he loved the combination of cherries and walnuts with the chocolate. Praise enough, which is why I bake.
The Tuesdays with Dorie group is baking from Dorie Greenspan's book, Dorie's Cookies. The posts are the first and third Tuesdays of the month and can be linked at the main Tuesdays with Dorie website here. You can also find the information on joining in and/or see the posts from those in the group baking along at this location. I don’t publish copyrighted recipes, so if you’d like to bake along, buy the book, it’s well worth it.