Date Pinwheels

Dates are a favourite ingredient at our house. For Christmas, my mother-in-law made pinwheels with a date centre. Date Pinwheels are pretty to serve at your Christmas table. These little treasures are not hard to make, but require a little love and extra time.

The dough requires chilling and then once filled the logs need to be frozen overnight before cutting. The date filling can be quite sticky to work with. Always have a bowl of cold water handy when spreading the filling. I used the back of a spoon dipped in cold water to spread over the dough. This dough is similar to pie dough, so you will have to work quickly. I think that the extra time and effort is definitely worth it when it comes to taste.

Don’t forget to try my date squares: https://recipesatmytable.com/tried-and-true-date-squares/

For health benefits of dates https://recipesatmytable.com/tried-and-true-date-squares/

Ingredients For Date Pinewheels

The dough

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup each of brown and white sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 cups all purpose flour
pinch of slat
1/4 tsp baking soda

Filling

1 package pitted dates
1/4 cup sugar
2/3 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 cup chopped nuts

Process

Make your filling first and set to cool. Add the dates, sugar and water to a pan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Take it off the heat, mash with a potato masher and add the vanilla.

Add in the nuts and stir. Put it in the refrigerator to cool.

Now cream the butter and add in both sugars and vanilla.

Go in with your dry ingredients next and mix until all incorporated.

Roll in plastic wrap and place in refrigerator for at least one hour. Cut the cough in half.

Roll it out in a 12 X 9 rectangle.

Spread with half the filling and roll up tightly. The filling is quite sticky and I used the back of a spoon dipped in water to spread it. Also use an icing spreader to slide under the dough for easy rolling. Do this for both pieces of dough.