Food and Recipes Recipes Buffalo Chicken Pinwheels Flaky puff pastry is the buttery base for these creamy, spicy Buffalo Chicken Pinwheels filled with blue cheese, scallions, hot sauce, cream cheese, and chopped chicken. These appetizers taste great hot or at room temperature and are the perfect party snack for a crowd (the recipe makes 40 pinwheels) or a tasty bite to enjoy with beers while watching the game. To make them, you'll need to roll 2 thawed sheets of frozen puff pastry into rectangles. Then, spread the Buffalo chicken filling over the rectangles and roll up each rectangle jelly-roll style. It's important to make sure the seam of the pastry is tight—brush the long end with a little water, then pinch the dough to secure the seam. After the rolls chill, use a serrated knife to cut them into individual slices before baking them in the oven. The pinwheels are topped with blue cheese dressing and chopped parsley, but you can replace the parsley with chopped fresh celery leaves, if you prefer. By Karen Schroeder-Rankin Karen Schroeder-Rankin Karen Rankin is a chef, recipe developer, and food stylist with over 25 years experience cooking, developing recipes, styling food, and entertaining guests at her table and in restaurants. During the past 11 years, Karen has been styling food for various publications such as Cooking Light, Southern Living, Eating Well, Real Simple, as well as creating instructional videos for Southern Living Magazine's Tips from the Test Kitchen, featured on select television programming, and on websites. With an interest in the use of color, texture, and presentation, she develops recipes that are intended to surprise and delight the recipients of these dishes, both from a visual standpoint and a flavor experience. Southern Living's editorial guidelines Published on October 23, 2020 Print Share Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: Victor Protasio, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Prop Stylist: Kathleen Varner Active Time: 25 mins Total Time: 50 mins Servings: 10 Ingredients 2 cups finely chopped rotisserie chicken breast (from 1 rotisserie chicken) 1 (8-oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened 2 ounces blue cheese, crumbled (about 1/2 cup) 1/3 cup finely chopped scallions (from 3 scallions) 3 tablespoons buffalo-style hot sauce (such as Frank's Red Hot) 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt All-purpose flour, for work surface 1 (17.25-oz.) pkg. frozen puff pastry sheets (2 sheets), thawed Blue cheese dressing and chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, for garnish (optional) Directions Preheat oven to 425°F. Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper, and set aside. Stir together chicken, cream cheese, blue cheese, scallions, hot sauce, and salt in a medium bowl until well combined. On a lightly floured work surface, roll each thawed puff pastry sheet into a 15- x 12-inch rectangle. Spread half the cream cheese mixture on each pastry rectangle, leaving a 1/2-inch pastry border on all sides. Beginning with 1 long side, roll up each rectangle, jelly-roll style, just to opposite long pastry border. Brush long pastry border with water; roll to close, pinching pastry to secure. Place rolls, seam side down, on a large baking sheet, and chill 10 minutes. Place chilled rolls on a work surface. Using a serrated knife, cut each into 20 (1/2-inch-thick) slices, and place 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets. Bake in preheated oven until pastry is puffed and light golden brown, 13 to 15 minutes. Serve hot or at room temperature, drizzled with blue cheese dressing, and sprinkled with parsley, if desired. Print