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Chocolate-Cherry Pinwheels

Here's how you make Chocolate-Cherry Pinwheels
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  • Servings: 54
  • Prep: 75m
  • Cook: 8m
    • The following recipe serves 54 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 cup flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1/4 cup maraschino cherries, well drained and finely chopped
  • 3 drops red food coloring
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 1/4 cup baking cocoa
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Thoroughly mix butter, sugar, and eggs

  • Step 2: Add flour, baking powder and salt. Mix well

  • Step 3: Divide dough in half

  • Step 4: Mix almond extract, red food color and cherries into one half. Divide in half, wrap and refrigerate 45 min

  • Step 5: Mix vanilla, milk and cocoa into remaining half. Divide in half, wrap and refrigerate 45 min

  • Step 6: On a lightly floured, cloth covered surface, roll 1 portion of the chocolate dough out into a 10x7 inch rectangle. Repeat with 1 portion cherry dough. Place cherry dough on top of plain dough and roll up tightly into a log, wrap and chill 2 hours

  • Step 7: Repeat with remaining dough

  • Step 8: Heat oven to 350

  • Step 9: Cut rolls into 1/4 inch slices

  • Step 10: Place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheet

  • Step 11: Bake 8 minutes or

  • Step 12: Immediately remove from baking sheet

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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