Fudge Butter Cookie Pinwheels are delicious soft butter cookies swirled with sweet, gooey fudge. These are seriously like cookie crack!
Course Dessert
Prep Time 45 minutesminutes
Cook Time 6 minutesminutes
Total Time 51 minutesminutes
Servings 2dozen
Calories
Author The Gracious Wife
Ingredients
For the Cookie Dough
½cupbutter softened
½cupbrown sugar
1egg yolk
½teaspoonvanilla extract
1cupflour
¼teaspoonbaking powder
wax or parchment paper
Fudge Filling:
1cupsemi-sweet chocolate chips
1tablespoonshortening
⅓cupsweetened condensed milk
1teaspoonvanilla extract
Instructions
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and brown sugar together until light and fluffy.
Beat in egg yolk and vanilla.
Combine flour and baking powder in a small bowl and gradually add to cream mixture.
Roll out dough between two sheets of 12"x10" sheets of wax paper. Transfer to a baking sheet and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Melt chocolate chips and shortening in a microwave-safe mixing bowl in the microwave at 30 second intervals, stirring between each interval. When chocolate is melted, add in sweetened condensed milk and vanilla.
Remove dough from fridge and remove wax paper from dough. Spread fudge mixture onto dough, leaving about a ½ inch on each of two opposite ends (so you can roll it up).
Roll dough and fudge filling up jelly roll style (like a cinnamon roll). Refrigerate for 2 hours. Preheat oven to 350° while you're waiting.
Cut dough log into ¼-inch slices, and place 2 inches apart on a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake about 6-9 minutes at 350°, until edges are very lightly browned. Let cookies sit on cookie sheet for at least 5 minutes before removing to cooling rack. (The fudge makes them very gooey, and they need a bit to set)