100 pinwheel recipes

Cream cheese pinwheel cookies with a cinnamon-walnut-orange filling rolled jelly-roll style and sliced into spirals. A make-ahead cookie that yields five dozen.

Chicken and ham wrapped in a pinwheel served on a bed of lettuce. Beautiful to look at and low in fat.

Italian Bolognese pinwheel cookies filled with thick fruit jam, rolled jelly-roll style, and sliced into spirals. Use fig, sour cherry, quince, or apricot jam. Makes 4 rolls.

Flaky biscuit dough rolled with sour cherries, sliced into pinwheels, and baked golden. Served warm with a homemade cherry sauce and ice cream or sherbet.

Cranberry walnut pinwheel cookies with a brown sugar filling, orange zest, and ground cranberries. A make-ahead slice-and-bake holiday cookie.

Pinwheel cookies with vanilla and chocolate dough rolled together into a spiral log, chilled, and sliced. A classic two-tone slice-and-bake cookie.

Cheddar pinwheels made from a quick biscuit dough rolled thin with sharp cheddar and sliced like cinnamon rolls. Flaky, buttery, and cheesy with golden edges. No yeast needed.

Peachy pinwheels swirl a soft butter cookie dough around a nutmeg-spiced dried peach filling, then slice and bake into spiral cookies. A pretty pinwheel cookie for the holiday tin.

Seasoned ground beef rolled around a savory cabbage and onion filling, then baked until golden. Slice into spirals for a retro comfort dinner the whole family will love.

Flank steak pinwheels rolled around herbed cheddar, sun-dried tomatoes, and baby spinach, then grilled until charred on the outside and pink in the middle. A showstopping grilled beef dinner for four.

Cream cheese pinwheel cookies filled with cinnamon, sugar, and chopped pecans. A tender, flaky dough rolled jelly-roll style and sliced into swirled rounds.

No-bake peanut butter pinwheel candies made from a potato-based fondant rolled around peanut butter and sliced into spirals. A Depression-era candy recipe using mashed potatoes, powdered sugar, and vanilla.

Chocolate mint pinwheel cookies with a two-tone spiral of vanilla and mint-chocolate dough, sliced thin and baked crisp with a melted chocolate coating on the bottom.

Cherry pinwheel slices with a flaky sour cream pastry rolled around cherry pie filling, coconut, and pecans, dusted with powdered sugar. An elegant holiday cookie.

Buttery slice-and-bake pinwheel cookies swirled with cherry preserves and scented with vanilla and almond extract. Roll, freeze, slice, and bake to golden perfection.

Green-and-white peppermint pinwheel cookies, sliced from a swirled frozen log. A classic Christmas icebox cookie with spiraled layers of vanilla and mint dough.