Sicilian Fig Pinwheels

Name: Sicilian Fig Pinwheels
Yield: Makes about 96 cookies
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon finely grated orange zest; 2 large eggs; One 12-ounce package dried Calimyrna figs, stemmed and diced (about 2 cups); 8 tablespoons (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into 10 pieces; ¼ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon baking powder; ⅓ cup sugar; 2 cups all-purpose flour; ¼ teaspoon ground cloves; ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 3 ounces (about ¾ cup) finely chopped walnut pieces; 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, cut into 14-inch pieces; ⅓ cup apricot preserves

Preparation info

Makes about
96
cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cookies Unlimited

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2000

About

There are lots of popular recipes around for a refrigerator cookie with a date filling. They gave me the idea of using a Sicilian-inspired fig filling in a similar type cookie. These are perfect for the holidays—they have that requisite spicy flavor we always associate with Christmas cookies.

Ingredients

Cookie Dough

2 cups all-purpose flour
⅓ cup sugar
¼ tea

Europe
Italy
Dessert
Mediterranean
Vegetarian
Cookies

Method

For the dough, in the work bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade, combine the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. Pulse several times to mix. Add the butter and the orange zest and pulse repeatedly at 1-second intervals until the mixture is fine and powdery. Add the eggs through the feed tube and continue to pulse until the dough forms a ball. Scrape th