Cinnamon Pinwheels

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Adding the cocoa powder turns the dough dark enough that the best red color I could achieve with red gel food coloring was muddy red.Not even close to the bright red in the photo. Very disappointing.

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This is a very impressive looking cookie and very tasty too. The dough needs to be chilled in order to roll properly. If it is too difficult to manage after you begin rolling, just put the dough on a cookie sheet and put in the fridge until chilled more. After stacking the dough, I just patted it into a rectangle with my hands instead of cutting off the edges (I hate wasting the extra. It does not need to be perfect. Make sure you chill again before cutting. After cutting the cookies, you can reshape them on the cookie sheet to get them more round and they will be perfect.

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Two words for this cookie: epic failure. The dough was easy to make, but the assembly was rough. It was very difficult to shape the dough in a rectangle. Also, when rolling the dough to the specified 10x11, the dough becomes very thin. It becomes quite difficult to get one layer on top of the other regardless of the parchment paper. So after you finally get it into a log shape, and bake it, the cookie comes out very dry. Too much manipulation to get it into the roll log and it comes out tough. I had made the mistake of doubling the recipe and was going to make two rolled logs, but after the first was an utter disaster, I took the dough from the second log and just rolled it into balls, flattened it with my hand, and sprinkled sanding sugar and cinnamon on top. Those were a lot better than the rolled ones! Definitely a lot of work to make the cookie that ends up tasting dry. NOT a keeper!

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Pretty, buttery cookie that tastes as good as it looks! I personally would have preferred a stronger taste of cinnamon. I did not use red food coloring for the inside layer--I substituted additional cocoa. The result was a shortbread-like cookie with hints of chocolate and cinnamon. The red sugar is a must; it almost gives the illusion of a jelly roll and adds a hint of sweetness to the cinnamon.