Caramelized Onion Cheesy Pinwheels
Such a delicious and easy finger food that you can serve at any party. Caramelized Onion Cheesy Pinwheels are bursting with flavor from caramelized onions and sharp white cheddar cheese, wrapped in a flaky puff pastry and baked to a golden perfection!
Planning your upcoming New Year’s party? I have just a thing for you to serve to your guests. They won’t believe that these heavenly pinwheels only took you 30 minutes to make and has three main ingredients. Most of the flavor comes from caramelizing the onion and adding sharp white cheddar cheese.
I absolutely love caramelized onions. Everyone who knows me might be surprised at that because I hate onions. I always cook with onion because I like the flavor it brings to food but I pick them out because I just hate biting into an onion (especially if it’s raw). Caramelizing it changes everything. It gives the onion this candy sweet but savory flavor and I prefer to make a small amount that way they are nice and crispy. When I want to get a nice crispy texture, I cook them at high heat but when I am adding them to pasta, steak or burgers, I make them soft and cook them on lower temperature for a much longer time. Cooking them longer also makes them a bit sweeter.
Caramelized Onion Cheesy Pinwheels
Ingredients
- 2 sheets of puff pastry
- 1 large yellow onion
- 3 tbsp butter
- 2 cups sharp white cheddar
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Preheat a large stainless steel pan (any pan will be fine but stainless steel will give better results) on medium-high heat.
- Slice the onions thin. Melt the butter in the pan and quickly add the onions. Cook, stirring often, until onions are golden browned (don't burn). Set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 400. Grease a cookie baking sheet.
- Spread the onions evenly over the dough and top it off with cheese, evenly. Salt to taste (just a little because cheese and onions already have a good amount of flavor).
- Roll up the dough, sealing the edge, and slice it into 1-inch rolls.
- Place the pinwheels on the cookie sheet and bake for 15-17 minutes, until nicely golden.
Nutrition
_________________________________________________________
Make sure you follow me through your favorite blog reader (bloglovin or other), subscribe to e-mail or follow me through social media of your choice to keep up with the recipes!
I will be sharing this recipe at the wonderful parties in my party tab , Weekend Potluck, Tip Junkie and Rattlebridge Farm. Swing by and link up your own projects!
_______________________________________________________
More Delicious Party Food Ideas:
French Onion Dip
Hot Veggie Dip
Cranberry Maple Baked Brie
Chicken Ranch Nachos
Blue Cheese Chips
Hot Chocolate Cheesecake Dip
All images and text ©Lyubov Brooke for ©Will Cook For Smiles. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If using my posts in collections and features, please link back to this post for the recipe.
Disclaimer: Nutrition information shown is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate as most ingredients and brands have variations.
Yum!
люба ты умница /молодец
Could I make these ahead & freeze them? Not sure if the onions texture would be compromised at all… I’m trying to make as much food in advance as possible for Christmas this year. Thank you so much!
Ha, that’s an interesting idea. I haven’t tried freezing cooked puff pastry before but I would imagine that you would freeze them in a freezer-friendly zip-lock bag and re-heat them in the oven at 375 or 400. I don’t think the onion would suffer though.
I hope this works out!
30 minutes to make these?!? Awesome! I can’t get enough of carmelized onions.
Thank you, Sherri!
Caramelized onions go in just about everything I make and I can’t wait to try your puff pastry version! Yum!
Thank you!
Totally agree on the onion thing!!! These look spectacular! I’d devour one, or two or maybe even three if you brought them to my NYE party!
Thank you, Julie 🙂
I love caramelized onions to the max! And, these are such a great creation to make with puff pastry… which I also love! What a great idea to serve to the party peeps. Hope you have a fun and exciting NYE, Lyuba!
Thank you so much, Gloria 🙂