Games Club Cheese & Bacon Pinwheels

 


Ingredients:
  • 1 sheet puff pastry (thawed)
  • 2 rashers (6 strips) bacon
  • 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • 1/4 cup grated parmesan
  • 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley (optional)
Instructions:
  1. In a pan, fry 2 rashers (6 strips) of bacon until crispy, flipping partway through
  2. Place fried bacon on a paper towel lined plate
  3. Preheat oven to 400 F
  4. Grate 1 cup cheddar cheese and 1/4 parmesan
  5. Unfold puff pastry on lightly floured surface. If using a brick-shaped pastry, divide in 2 and roll each piece flat
  6. Spread Dijon mustard over pastry
  7. Spread 1 cup grated cheddar and 1/4 cup grated parmesan over mustard
  8. Crumble fried bacon and spread evenly over cheese
  9. Roll pastry tightly into a log, 2 if you divided it earlier
  10. Cut into 1/2 inch rounds
  11. Place rounds onto prepared baking sheet, cut side up
  12. In a small bowl, beat an egg and brush onto the tops of the rounds
  13. Bake 15-20 min
  14. Let rolls cool and garnish with parsley if desired
Yield: About 20 pinwheels


Description:

This is another recipe from the WALES cookbook. The member that contributed it runs a Games Club that he makes a treat for regularly, of which this is an example.

I helped him make it the first time around. I had never used puff pastry before, and one of the steps from the source is to "unfold one sheet of puff pastry". We had purchased it in the format of a brick, segmented slightly in the middle. At the time, I didn't realize that it came in different styles, and assumed that the layers had melted together during the thawing process. This was reinforced by a reference to "layers" on the box, and what appeared to be little grooves across the brick of dough.

So in a "never say die" moment, I cut along the layers and "unfolded" the brick. The results were decent, but it made 6 pinwheels instead of 20, which we were still able to turn into slices and divide up.

I asked my mother-in-law about puff pastry later and found out that there is a sheet version of it, which would make sense with the unfolding instructions. For the brick, you're supposed to divide into 2 at the middle groove, then roll each half flat. Doing this got me the more expected number of 20 pinwheels.

It occurs to me that you could put almost anything in the centre. Spinach and feta cheese could make something similar to spanakopita, for example.

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