This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was Date-Nut Pinwheels. Dorie says:
Growing up in New York City, I remember date-nut bread, date pudding, date-nut cake and cookies with a filling that might have been the date version of Fig Newtons. The dried dates used to make these sweets were an everyday ingredient, as common then as dried cranberries are now. Of course they’re still available, but they and the wonderful recipes they were used in seem to have fallen out of fashion. A shame, because, as I was reminded when I made these cookies, they’re great!
Dorie’s recipe is based on her friend Oklahoma chef John Bennett and it makes a soft sticky dough (sweetened with brown sugar) that is rolled out and topped with a date-nut mixture (cooked down so it’s kind of like a paste), then rolled and sliced. Pretty simple (although my dough cracked a fair bit when I was rolling it but never fear – it bakes up so you can barely notice the cracks!). Dorie’s recipe calls for the cookies to be sliced 1/2 inch thick but I went with the way the cookies were originally made – 1/4 inch thick – and they were just perfect.
I expected these to be super sweet but they were not – more like a Fig Newton if you know what those taste like. Almost kind of healthy-tasting 😉 I enjoyed them and would love to experiment with other pinwheel type cookies with different fillings (hello chocolate….)
Get the recipe for Dorie Greenspan’s Date-Nut Pinwheels on page 248 of Dorie’s Cookies.
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I loved these! My dough cracked, too, but it bakes up just fine.
These look great!! I look forward to making them.
i liked these, too, and would like to pinwheel up some other flavors!
I thought these were delicious and pretty easy to make.