Candy Recipe: Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Pinwheels

These peanut butter pinwheels are a sugary sweet confection that are simple to make and require only five basic ingredients. Don't you just love easy recipes?

This one is easy enough to even let the kids do much of it for themselves. In fact, it's one that my mother used to make with her mother when she was a little girl. I have fond memories of making this peanut butter candy with my mother as a small child, and now I make it with my own children. It's been tried and tested for multiple generations!

Some treats just taste sweeter because of the memories behind them. And this candy with peanut butter spirals surrounded by sugary sweetness is one of them! Each bite just tastes like childhood and brings back a flood of memories!

These peanut butter pinwheels are my great grandmother's version of the old fashioned potato candy--minus the potatoes that are found in many traditional variations of the recipe. Up until a few years ago, we didn't have the recipe in writing. It is one that my mother and my great grandmother before her just knew how to make. Watching my mother make it with my daughter one afternoon, I was able to write down everything she did to make this scrumptious treat.

Today I'm sharing that recipe with you! Keep reading to see how to make this delicious candy.

Peanut Butter Pinwheels

 

 Ingredients

• ⅓ cup cream (evaporated milk)
• 1 tbsp butter
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2½ cups powdered sugar
• peanut butter

Instructions

1. Heat the butter and cream in a pot on medium heat until the butter has melted.
2. Remove from heat and add in the vanilla.
3. Pour the powdered sugar into a large mixing bowl. Add the cream mixture to the powdered sugar a little at a time. Continue to stir and add cream until you get a dough-like consistency. Tip: You may not need to use all of the cream mixture, so it is important to add it gradually.
4. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for one hour.
5. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and roll it out in a thin layer onto parchment paper. Sprinkle powdered sugar on your prep surface and the dough to keep it from sticking.
6. Spread peanut butter over the top of the dough.
7. Roll it into a log. Slice and enjoy.
8. Keep refrigerated.

*Variations: You could also make Peanut butter and jelly pinwheels by spreading a thin layer of jelly over the peanut butter before rolling the dough into a log. If you're kids love peanut butter and jelly, they're sure to love this fun twist on the time-honored recipe.

**My youngest son has a severe milk allergy. I made a batch for him using almond milk instead of cream and vegan butter in place of regular butter. I promise that you couldn't even tell a difference in the two batches. Need a non-dairy version? Just make these simple substitutions.

For another delicious candy recipe, be sure to take a look at these soft homemade caramel candies.

Happy candy making!

Note: A variation of this post originally appeared on Clean and Scentsible.
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