Gujiya Pinwheels Puff Pastry Recipe

Make bite sized Gujiya Pinwheels using puff pastry for your festivals and parties. These are super easy to make and so delicious. Basically you can not go wrong with this recipe. Always a crowd pleaser. 

Now you can make these Gujiya Pinwheels in oven or in air-fryer. One can easily freeze the pinwheels after filling with gujia mixture and then bake as needed. Super convenient to make.

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Gujiya Pinwheels Puff Pastry Recipe

These Gujiya Pinwheels are the easiest, yummiest and most delicious dessert to make ever with the store bought Puff Pastry. Luckily puff pastry is easily available at the grozery store and makes it so much easy and quick to make a recipe that uses it. Although if you are an expert at baking, you can use home-made puff pastry too. Or you can choose ot buy it from the store and use it as needed.

As for me, I always have a sheet of store-bought puff pastry in my refrigerator. It is so handy.

These taste like little Palmer Hearts. SO YUMMY!

Top 5 Reasons to make Gujiya Pinwheels

• Super Delicious – has to be the top reason. The sweet Gujiya Pinwheels are hard to resist. So Yummy.
• Easy Recipe – Since it uses only handful of ingredients and cooks fast, this has to be the easiest dessert to make.
• Make Ahead of Time – Now the best part is that you can prep for this recipe in advance and air-fry or bake it when ready to eat. You can prep and freeze it easily to cook later.
• Stored so easily – Once at the room temperature, these are super easy to store in any air-tight container.
• Perfect for every occassion – These Gujiya Pinwheels are perfect as delicious dessert or appetizer for your parties. Serve it with your cocktails, or for the high tea or whenn the friends sit together for a casual chit-chat. And the best part is that kids love it. Since these are so easy, you can whip these up anytime.

Ingredients for Gujiya Pinwheels

Puff Pastry – Although I use refrigerated Puff Pastry Sheet from the grocery store, you can use frozen puff pastry as well. In that case, thaw the pastry first and then use. In case you can’t find puff pastry sheet, you can use refrigerated crescent rolls too.

Mawa Powder or Mawa – Mawa or milk solid is also known as Khoya. You can easily buy it from any Indian grocery store. One can either use the milk mawa powder or the solid mawa from the refrigerated area. I am using Mawa powder here. Read notes for more details.

Shredded Dry Coconut – Make sure to use unsweetened shredded dry coconut.

Semolina – Use slightly coarse semolina.

Sugar

Nuts – Almonds and Pistachio

Cardamom Powder – You may use store bought cardamom powder but I like to grind fresh powder from the cardamom pods and use that. It adds beautiful flavor and aroma.

Saffron

Gujiya Pinwheels Puff Pastry Recipe

Roasting the Gujiya Mixture Ingredients

• Although I recommend using a non stick pan but you can use any heavy bottom pan.
• Dry Roast Sooji – Start with roasting the sooji on low flame for 45-50 seconds till it starts smelling aromatic. Do not brown it. Set aside. Let it cool to room temperature.
• Roast Mawa/Khoya powder – Since I am using Mawa powder, I roasted the powder with 1 tbsp ghee on very low flame. Roast only for 45-50 seconds till it starts turning slight pink. If you are using Mawa block from the refrigerated section, then grate it first and then bring it to room temperature and further slow roast it. Set aside. Let it cool to room temperature.
• Dry Roast Nuts – Dry Roast almonds and pistachios on medium low flame till they become aromatic. Do not brown them. Let these cool to room temperature.

Making the Gujiya Mixture

• Once the nuts are cooled, grind them coarsely in a food processor.
• Take a large bowl and add the cooled roasted mawa, roasted sooji/semolina, ground nuts, shredded coconut, sugar, powdered cardamom and saffron.
• Mix all the ingredients together and set aside. This mixture is enough to make a lot of pinwheels. You can easily store the mixture in an air tight container and refrigerate it.

Preparing Gujiya Pinwheels

• Watch the video for complete understanding of details.
• Unroll the Puff Pastry on a smooth surface or a large chopping board. I prefer unrolling it on top of a parchment paper. This makes the handling of delictae puff pastry easy. I would highly recommend it.
• Cut the Puff Pastry sheet into 3 inches wide strips. Take one strip at a time to prepare the gujiya pinwheels.
• Place the puff pastry wide strip on the parchment paper. Place 2-3 tbsp of Gujiya mixture in the middle of the strip. Do not fill till the top edge of the strip.
• Start rolling the puff pastry over the mixture tightly. It will take 2-3 turns at the most. You will get a long log of puff pastry with gujiya filling inside. Set aside on the parchment paper. Finish the other 2 strips likewise.
• Since Puff pastry is delicate, handle with care and patience. Watch the video.

Freeze the Puff Pastry Logs

• After the puff pastry gujiya logs are made, it is very important to FREEZE them for 45 minutes to 1 hour minimum.
• Since the puff pastry is so delicate, freezing helps solidifying the logs with the filling. And when you take them out and cut the frozen hard logs, there is very less mess created. Also it leads to smooth cutting to create pinwheels.
• The freezing also holds the shape of the pinwheels tight and in good shape when baking or air-frying.

Cut and Bake Gujiya Pinwheels

• Preheat the oven at 425*F or whatever temperature is mentioned at the back of your puff pastry packaging.
• Take the frozen logs out. Further cut out 1 inch thick pieces out of each log. You will get 30-34 small bite size Gujiya Pinwheels including of all the 3 logs.
• Line the baking sheet with a baking paper and place these tiny pinwheels on the tray creatting a little but of space in between each.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes or till they are golden in color (not too dark).
• Take these out and immediately sprinkle sugar on top of these while still hot.
• Decorate wuth pistachio powder and rose petals powder.
• Serve hot or at room temperature.

Tips and Tricks

• Do not over fill the Gujiya filling in the center and spread as evenly and flat as possible.
• Let all the roasted ingredients cool down first before mixing or the sugar will melt.
• Freeze before Baking – This is a very important step. Do not skip it please or it will be a mess.
• Storage – You can store these at the room temperature for about 4-5 days in an air tight container.

Gujiya Pinwheels Recipe

I hope you try this recipe. Leave your feedback in the comments section. Also please rate the recipe.

Sonal